This week, we're continuing our discussion of Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.' This is part two of our talk about Huck Finn, and this time we're looking at the metaphors in the book, a little bit about what the...

Geysers are amazing natural formations that shoot magma-heated water from deep below the Earth's surface! What could possibly be cooler than that?!

Throughout the 1800s, innovations in transport and communication, from canals to the telegraph, bridged geographical distances and made it faster to move people, produce and post.

Supplying almost three million soldiers with the food, clothes and resources they needed to fight the Civil War was no easy task. So which side proved most successful?

Take five minutes and fill your head with tales of the interstate commerce clause and this foundational Constitutional defining Supreme Court case. Perfect for the discriminating life ling learner and students cramming for the exam

This video tells the inspiring story of Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, who taught himself to read and write and eventually escaped to the North. The video also covers Douglass's life after slavery, which included writing...

MOT 1934: HAVANA, CUBA: HD: HA WS Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro overlooking harbor, WS Harbor, WS SS Morro Castle steamer ship, pair of people dancing together outdoors, bailaoras (female Flamenco dancer) dancing on...

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/ Paddle steam boat going down river. Steamboat on the river on January 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)

Transatlantic cruise ships at the Chelsea Piers docks, New York in the 1920's. 16mm film. Large ship with four funnels is RMS Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic. She is docked in White Star Pier 59 - where the Titanic was destined...

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/ steamboat going down the river / African American workers loading up the boat / boat sails away / rolling cotton bales down the gang plank / several supply ships carrying cotton sailing together / CU of the water wheels turning on the...

two small river skiffs, black water tributary of the amazon river, peruvian amazon, peru

Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul, steamboats sailing by, tourism in Turkey

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T/L High angle view over river and restaurant in Singapore, at night

Closeup of a paddlewheel churning water as it powers its boat upriver.

Vintage Steamboat on Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand