Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of every University of Alabama football season has been a national championship. A winning team surfaced that very next year, when Hoyt “Wu” Winslett’s squad sealed the national cham...

Richard Nixon's election to the presidency in 1968 was an improbable vindication for a man branded as a loser after unsuccessful presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. Yet during the 1966 mid-term elections, he emerged as the critical figure who united the fractured Republican Party after the disastrous 1964 presidential election. Along the way, he sensed how large swaths of the American public were moving against the Democrats, and how a candidate could take advantage of this.F...

The humpback whales have declared an island in the part of the Great Western Ocean called the "PUH-SI-FIC" to now be safe from the human whale-hunters.But sperm whales do not trust or like man. For protection against clashes with man's deadly whaling fleets,they have organized into the "The United Pods": Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern "Greater" pods. Each Greater Pod is further divided into groups such as hunter-Squid killer pods, nursery pods, and navigation pods.

1982 was a historic year, a year in which the battle for a small group of islands in the South Atlantic dominated the news.From the initial broadcasts of the growing Argentine threat and Mrs Thatcher's speech to the Commons informing them that a Task Force will sail, to the battles for Goose Green and Port Stanley, the Argentine surrender and the controversial sinking of the Belgrano - all these historic moments, together with all the other important events of the Falklands War, ar...