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10,045 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
The flatterer operates with calculated self-interest, stripping the novice he has coaxed and living upon the deceived.
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Consider three profound lessons from "in journeyings often" (2 Corinthians 11:26).
In the parish church of Olney, Buckinghamshire, on New Year's Day 1773, curate John Newton introduced a new hymn to his congregation. The words carried...
For four years, from 1508 to 1512, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood on scaffolding sixty-eight feet above the floor of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, painting...
On November 22, 1873, the French steamship SS Ville du Havre collided with the iron vessel Loch Earn in the North Atlantic and sank in...
On November 24, 1859, John Murray's publishing house in London released 1,250 copies of Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species*. Every copy sold on...
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. Deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch retaliated by selecting ten men from Block...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before 100,000 spectators in a stadium draped with swastika banners. Adolf...
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium not for fireworks but for a farewell. Lou Gehrig stood at home plate, gaunt and...
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the door of a small rented cottage on Oak Street in Daytona Beach, Florida, and welcomed five...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen rescue missions from St. Catharines, Ontario, back into the slave-holding territory of Maryland's Eastern Shore. She had...
On August 4, 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the edge of elimination in Berlin. The American sprinter had fouled on his first two qualifying attempts...
In the final years of his life, Rembrandt van Rijn had lost nearly everything. The Dutch master who once commanded the highest commissions in Amsterdam...
On July 15, 1944, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank sat in the cramped Secret Annex at Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam and wrote what would become one of...
On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the Jewish orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to deport its nearly two hundred children. Janusz...
Sengbe Pieh was born free. A rice farmer from Mende country in Sierra Leone, he was seized by slave traders in early 1839, shipped across...
When a neighbor warned eighty-four-year-old Casper ten Boom that harboring Jews could mean his death, the Haarlem watchmaker did not hesitate. "It would be an...
On April 10, 1938, the residents of St. Radegund, a small village in Upper Austria, cast their ballots in Hitler's plebiscite on the Anschluss —...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, having accepted a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary arranged by...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson trotted onto the diamond at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball in...
On August 3, 1936, Jesse Owens crouched into the starting blocks at Berlin's Olympiastadion before one hundred thousand spectators. Adolf Hitler had designed these Games...
In May 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins stood on the grounds of St. Beuno's College in North Wales and watched a kestrel ride the morning wind....
On February 3, 1943, a German torpedo from U-223 struck the USAT Dorchester in the frigid North Atlantic, 150 miles from Greenland. Nine hundred and...
On August 28, 1945, in the Brooklyn Dodgers' office at 215 Montague Street, Branch Rickey sat across from twenty-six-year-old Jackie Robinson and made an extraordinary...