J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was brought to the screen by Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, where we first experienced the incredible world-building of Tolkien’s fantasy tale.

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He believed, like Dwight D. Eisenhower, that South Vietnam was in danger of becoming the first domino to fall. “You knock over the first one,” Eisenhower had predicted, “what will happen to ...

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam War. The surrender of South Vietnam ended the decades-long conflict and signaled the reunification of North and South Vietnam.

The fall of the city marked the end of the South Vietnamese government and decades of conflict. In the days leading up to the city's fall, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians ...

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You've probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven't heard the radio ...

The Tesla innovator becomes the latest government employee to lose his job.

As North Vietnamese forces captured Saigon, the fall of the southern capital city on April 30, 1975, effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. The evacuation of South Vietnamese allies and ...