On March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton, 43, left his home at 7 Kent Road in Dunblane, Scotland, with only one thing in mind — murder. At about 9:30 a.m., he drove to the Dunblane Primary School with a pair of pliers, four handguns and more than 700 rounds of ammunition. Once there, he cut the telephone wires on a…
The Story of Maths is a four-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of mathematics. It was a co-production between the Open University and the BBC and aired in October 2008 on BBC Four. The material was written and presented by University of Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy. The consultants were the Open University academics Robin…
This episode recounts thirteen important discoveries in physics, including Galileo’s law of falling bodies, Isaac Newton’s laws of motion, and Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity.
A shocking documentary recalling eyewitness accounts about one of the worst crimes ever commited in British history. The event that has come to be known as the “Hungerford Massacre” took place in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on one August afternoon in 1987. The killer, 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan, armed with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, shot and killed…
Frederick Walter Stephen West, was an English serial killer. Between 1967 and 1987, he alone, and later, he and his wife Rosemary, tortured, raped and murdered at least 11 young women and girls, many at the couple’s homes 25 Midland Road and later 25 Cromwell Street respectively. Rosemary West also murdered Fred’s stepdaughter (his first wife’s biological daughter)…
Told by those who directly served the late Libyan dictator, from nuclear smugglers to hit men on the run, to virgin bodyguards, Mad Dog: The Secret World of Gaddafi is a study in the exercise of absolute power, revealing how the “Mad Dog” of the Middle East used his oil billions to manipulate and terrorize the world. The…