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In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS deputy commander Karl Fritzsch selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...
On April 14, 1935, residents of Boise City, Oklahoma, looked up to see the horizon swallowed whole. A wall of dirt two thousand feet high...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — sat alone in his room in...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final. He had spent four years recovering from injuries, and this...
When NASA's Perseverance rover descended toward Mars on February 18, 2021, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory faced a harrowing reality: an eleven-minute signal delay....
For decades, scientists dismissed roughly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk." It didn't code for proteins, so they assumed it served no purpose —...
In our bustling, modern world, the invitation to embrace the Holy Spirit can sometimes feel daunting, as if we are navigating a stormy sea without a compass. Yet, much like the early followers of Christ, we too are called to...
On November 11, 1918, at 5:10 in the morning, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne. But the cease-fire...
In September 2007, a bar-tailed godwit known to researchers as E7 launched from the mudflats of Alaska and flew 7,145 miles non-stop to New Zealand...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with catastrophic force, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes. Everything was buried under ash...
In a bone marrow transplant, the patient's diseased marrow — the very factory that produces their blood — is first destroyed through chemotherapy. Every last...
In 1938, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and saw Jewish families desperate to save their children from the Nazi threat closing...
In the winter of 1944, Casper ten Boom was eighty-four years old when the Gestapo arrested him for hiding Jewish families in his Haarlem watchshop....
Look at your hands for a moment. Spread your fingers wide. In the earliest weeks of your development in the womb, those fingers didn't exist...
In 1994, a tornado swept through Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, during Palm Sunday worship. Twenty people died. In the wreckage that followed,...
Margaret Knott grew up in the Bass Harbor Head Light on the rocky coast of Maine, where her father kept the lamp burning from 1895...
On January 2, 2023, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin made a routine tackle during a Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals. Then he...
In 1883, a young architect named Antoni Gaudí took over an ambitious project in Barcelona — the Basilica de la Sagrada Família. He poured himself...
On April 14, 2019, Tiger Woods stood on the eighteenth green at Augusta National and did something the world had stopped believing was possible. He...
In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and asked him to do the hardest thing any athlete has ever...
In 2019, engineers inspecting the Hernando de Soto Bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee discovered a critical fracture in a steel beam — a crack that...
On October 12, 2019, in Vienna's Prater Park, Eliud Kipchoge became the first human being to run a marathon in under two hours. But what...
When Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition collapsed in 1916, he was forced to leave twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight hundred...
In 2019, a pediatric nurse named Clara Mendes in São Paulo, Brazil, kept waking at 3 a.m. with the same persistent thought: check on the...