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Extreme Trains: Maintenance Car | Video
Massive trains undergo a lot of wear and tear, Extreme Trains makes sure these locomotives are up and running.
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Extreme Trains: Coal Reserves | Video
Once the coal gets taken off the train, it comes here: to the coal reserve. Extreme Trains shows you the machines that take…
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Extreme Trains: Thermite Welding | Video
A special welding technique gives worn out rails the ability to keep massive freight trainson track.
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Extreme Trains: Train Watcher Hotel | Video
Have you ever wondered what rail fans do after a long day of train watching? They come here, to this hotel.
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Extreme History: NASCAR - Training | Video
In this video clip from "Extreme History" Roger Daltrey learns some of the secrets to tricking out a stock racing car.
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Freedom Rides | Topic
In 1961, civil rights activists traveled throughout the South to protest segregation, encountering extreme violence during many stops on their trips.
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America's Army | Topic
army training simulator and electronic game used for army recruitment and training. It was created in 2002 by Lt. Col. Casey Wardynski of the U.
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United States Military Academy | Topic
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is an institution of higher education for the training of commissioned officers for the U.S. Army.
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Alaska | Topic
Admitted to the union as the 49th state in 1959, Alaska lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent.
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Abraham Lincoln's Funeral Train | Topic
The train carrying Lincoln's body traveled through 180 cities and seven states on its way to Lincoln's home state of Illinois.
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Armenia | Topic
country of Transcaucasia, lying just south of the great mountain range of the Caucasus and fronting the northwestern extremity of Asia. To the north and east Armenia is bounded by Georgia and Azerbaijan, while its neighbours to the southeast and…
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Saint Petersburg | Topic
city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. A major historical and cultural centre and an important port, it lies about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° south of the Arctic Circle.
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Chile | Topic
A land of extreme natural events, Chile lies along the western seaboard of South America.
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United States | Topic
The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 contiguous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and…
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New Hampshire | Topic
One of the 13 original U.S. states, New Hampshire is located in New England at the extreme northeastern corner of the country.
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Military, Naval, and Air Academies | Topic
schools for the education and training of officers for the armed forces. Their origins date from the late 17th century, when European countries began developing permanent national armies and navies and needed trained officers for…
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Black Sea | Topic
large inland sea situated at the southeastern extremity of Europe. It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west.
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Railroad | Topic
mode of land transportation in which flange-wheeled vehicles move over two parallel steel rails, or tracks, either by self-propulsion or by the propulsion of a locomotive.
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Mount Ararat | Topic
extinct volcanic massif in extreme eastern Turkey overlooking the point at which the frontiers of Turkey, Iran, and Armenia converge. Its northern and eastern slopes rise from the broad alluvial plain of the Aras River, about 3,300 feet (1,000…
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Jacobin Club | Topic
the most famous political group of the French Revolution, which became identified with extreme egalitarianism and violence and which led the Revolutionary government from mid-1793 to mid-1794.
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Battle of Hampton Roads | Topic
The Battle of Hampton Roads between the Monitor and Merrimack during the American Civil War changed naval warfare forever.
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Chick Corea | Topic
(born June 12, 1941, Chelsea, Mass., U.S.) classically trained American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader whose piano style and tunes were extensively imitated during the 1970s and '80s.
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Mohandas Gandhi | Topic
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is remembered for his nonviolent methods of effecting social and political change.
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Weather in War | Topic
For countless generations, weather has influenced the planning and conduct of military and naval campaigns.
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Golan Heights | Topic
hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan…
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Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Topic
scenic archipelago in extreme northern Wisconsin, U.S., at the southwestern end of Lake Superior. Established in 1970 with 20 islands (another was added in 1986), the national lakeshore now consists of 21 islands and a 12-mile (19-km) strip of…
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Shetland Islands | Topic
group of about 100 islands, fewer than 20 of them inhabited, in Scotland, 130 miles (210 km) north of the Scottish mainland, at the northern extremity of the United Kingdom.
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British Virgin Islands | Topic
British overseas territory in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It is part of an island chain collectively known as the Virgin Islands, which makes up the northeastern extremity of the Greater Antilles.
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Saint Lawrence River and Seaway | Topic
hydrographic system of east-central North America. It connects the North River (source of the St. Louis River, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, which flows into Lake Superior) with Cabot Strait, leading into the Atlantic Ocean in the extreme east…
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Tianjin | Topic
city and province-level shi (municipality), northern China. It is located to the east of Hebei province, at the northeastern extremity of the North China Plain.
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Ancient Greece | Topic
Between 800 and 500 B.C., Greek city-states spread from the Mediterranean to Asia Minor and from North Africa to the Black Sea.
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Germany | Topic
The modern nation-state of Germany was founded in 1871. Following Germany's defeat in WWII, the country was separated into two nations. For more than 40 years, East and West Germany served as a symbol of the divisions of the Cold War.
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Women's Land Army (WLA) | Topic
U.S. federally established organization that from 1943 to 1947 recruited and trained women to work on farms left untended owing to the labour drain that arose during World War II.
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Atomic Bomb | Topic
Nuclear weapons had a profound and lasting impact on war and international relations in the 20th century.
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Peninsula Campaign | Topic
In mid-1862, George McClellan led Union troops in a failed offensive toward Richmond in the Peninsula Campaign.
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Civil War Culture | Topic
The Civil War years (1861-65) saw a number of important--and surprising--cultural changes from the antebellum era.
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Irgun Zvai Leumi | Topic
Jewish right-wing underground movement in Palestine, founded in 1931. At first supported by many non-Socialist Zionist parties, in opposition to the Haganah, it became in 1936 an instrument of the Revisionist Party, an extreme nationalist group…
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space elevator | Topic
a concept for lifting mass out of Earth's gravity well without using rockets in which an extremely strong cable extends from Earth's surface to the height of geostationary orbit (35,786 km [22,236 miles]) or beyond.
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Godfrey | Topic
(died 810) king in Denmark who halted the northward extension of Charlemagne's empire. He may have ruled over all Denmark, but his centre of power was in the extreme south of Jutland.
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Gold Coast | Topic
city, extreme southeastern Queensland, Australia, about 20 miles (30 km) south-southeast of Brisbane. It extends for some 25 miles (40 km) along the state's southeastern coastline, from Paradise Point along the Pacific Highway to Coolangatta at…
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Zhou | Topic
(born early 11th century? BC, China—died 1046 BC, China) last sovereign (c. 1075–46 BC) of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), who, according to legend, lost his empire because of his extreme debauchery.
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New Economic Policy | Topic
the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism.
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Tana, Lake | Topic
largest lake of Ethiopia, in a depression of the northwest plateau, 6,000 ft (1,800 m) above sea level. It forms the main reservoir for the Blue Nile (Abbay) River, which drains its southern extremity near Bahir Dar.
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Han River | Topic
one of the most important tributaries of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) of China. It has a total length of about 950 miles (1,530 km). The Han River rises in the Shenqiong Mountains, part of the Micang Mountains in the extreme southwestern part…
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Robert Hutchings Goddard | Topic
(born Oct. 5, 1882, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died Aug. 10, 1945, Baltimore) American professor and inventor generally acknowledged to be the father of modern rocketry.
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First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) | Topic
The First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas), fought on July 21, 1861, was the first major engagement of the Civil War.
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The Rise and Fall of the Maya Empire | Topic
The Maya Empire, located in what is now Guatemala, reached its peak around the sixth century A.D.
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Frank Dow Merrill | Topic
(born Dec. 4, 1903, Hopkinton, Mass., U.S.—died Dec. 11, 1955, Fernandina Beach, Fla.) U.S. Army officer during World War II who led specially trained jungle fighters called “Merrill's Marauders” in successful operations against…
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Ahmad Shah | Topic
(born Dec. 24, 1725, Delhi [India]—died Jan. 1, 1775, Delhi) ineffectual Mughal emperor of India from 1748 to 1754, who has been characterized as good-natured but incompetent and without personality, training, or qualities of leadership.
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Aerospace Medicine | Topic
specialized branch of medical science concerned with those medical problems encountered in human flight in the atmosphere (aviation medicine) and beyond the atmosphere (space medicine).
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