Journey with Helen Keller through childhood darkness and silence to a world of discovery through communicating with others.

Like many of his predecessors, Ramses III enjoyed the luxury of a large harem, filled with beautiful Egyptian women and foreign princesses. But harems, while pleasurable, could also pose a risk to a king and his chosen successor. In the 32nd year of Ramses' reign, one of his secondary wives plotted to assassinate him and set her own son, rather than Ramses' designated heir, upon the throne. With great cunning, she convinced other women of the harem,...

Visit Henry's England and Eleanor's Aquitaine; a free-thinker's Germany; a student's Paris, the pope's Rome and a crusader's Jerusalem; inside the manor, the monastery, the cathedral and the castle. Get to know a Europe you never could before -- through the lives of the people who were there.

Provides a portrait of life in Celtic Ireland, from A.D. 400 to 1200, through an examination of legends, ancient texts, artifacts, art, and architecture of the time.