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In 1993, shelling destroyed the Stari Most, a sixteenth-century Ottoman bridge arching over the Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia. The bridge had connected the city's...
In January 1736, a violent storm battered the ship carrying John Wesley to the Georgia colony. While English passengers screamed in terror, a group of...
Right now, without your awareness or effort, something extraordinary is happening inside your body. Every single cell sustains between 10,000 and 1,000,000 DNA lesions every...
On October 13, 2010, a billion people worldwide watched their television screens as a narrow rescue capsule broke the surface at the San José mine...
In 1998, when Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic just off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it was the local fishermen who responded first. They...
Dorothy Chen had volunteered at Grace Community's food pantry every Tuesday for eleven years. She knew the regulars by name — knew that Miguel's daughter...
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal had an encounter so overwhelming that he could barely find words for...
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Derek Redmond had trained for years for this moment. As the gun fired at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the British sprinter shot out of the...
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In 1813, Adoniram Judson stepped off a ship in Rangoon, Burma, with nothing but a calling and a conviction that God had promised a harvest...
In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, weeping over Thomas Clarkson's evidence of the slave trade — iron shackles...
On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...
The 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Derek Redmond of Great Britain had trained his entire life for one moment — the 400-meter semifinal. Years of surgeries and...
In 2019, a rookie 911 dispatcher named Maria Delgado sat through her first overnight shift in El Paso, Texas. The veteran dispatchers warned her: most...
In 1967, the Chicago Bears paired Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo as the NFL's first interracial roommates. One was Black, one was White, in an...
In 2012, filmmaker James Cameron descended nearly seven miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific — the deepest known point...
On May 22, 2011, a mile-wide EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, reducing entire neighborhoods to bare foundations. Where homes and schools once stood, there...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...
In 2019, a young woman named Sarah from Owasso, Oklahoma — population 36,000 — married into one of Denmark's oldest noble families. She had grown...
Every autumn in Rochester, Minnesota, old Mr. Halverson would spend three weekends detailing his 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. He buffed the cherry-red paint until it gleamed....
On August 22, 2010, a drill probe broke through rock at the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, thirty-three miners had...