Saddam Hussein (Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti) was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 to April 9, 2003. After his US capture, trial and sponsored execution on December 30, 2006, Saddam's rule was at an end.

Listen to classic U.S. public service ads and war songs from the old days

Kim Jong-il's personality can be characterized by suspicion, and is extremely emotional in his expression of his likes and dislikes, which borders on double personality. In 1978, he ordered North Korean agents to abduct the famous South Korean movie director and his ex-wife, and kept them for eight years while making them produce propaganda films.

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She learned to communicate through the eyes and ears of others after a fever left her deaf and blind as an infant.

Some of the America's Patriotic Music which owes its origins to four main wars the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and the Spanish American War.

Audio clips of U.S. Navy military music and marches in their most patriotic moments.

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

Ted Bundy was the good guy. Charasmatic, handsome, charming, intelligent, and the nicest guy you'd ever met. But beneath that good guy exterior was a vicious serial killer who caused havoc and terror among the citizens of the United States in the 1970s. He eventually confessed to over 30 murders, although the actual total of victims remains unknown

Professor Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) was best known for his illuminating work in the fields of mythology and comparative religion. Listen to excerpts from some of his greatest interviews with Bill Moyers on the Power of Myth.

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Europe is really not a continent, but part of the peninsula of Euroasia which includes all of Europe and Asia. Conventionally it is considered a continent, this is more of a cultural distinction than a geographic one.

Prohibition movement began after 1900 and many states, especially in the South, enacted prohibition. From 1920 to 1933, the "manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within was illegal".

Retro jingles, portions of oldies but goodies, funny sound bytes and classic one liners from yesteryear.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945), the 32nd U.S. He managed to pull Americans out of the Great Depression and lead them to victory in World War II. Here's an audio selection of his documentary speeches.

Sounds bytes from the actual O.J. Simpson double murder criminal trial of 1995. Also, clips from interviews with the attorneys and victim's family after historic the Not guilty verdict was announced.

Listen to United States and Canada's patriotic music that evokes their history, tradition and struggles of their people.

Joe Biden is the senior senator from the U.S. state of Delaware. He was selected to be Obamas vice presidential running mate. Check out his clips here...

The Soviet Union was the name of the Russian collective of communist countries for many years. Let's try to look outside the frame of usual stereotypes and try to understand life of the former soviet union, with it's unique history and national songs.