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Curtis Martin never loved football. That's not a rumor or a misquote — it's something the Pro Football Hall of Famer said himself during his...
In September 2005, Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans in ruins. Nearly 1,800 people died, and 80 percent of the city flooded. The New Orleans Saints,...
In 2014, a young woman named Grace Obiago walked into a surgical residency interview at Johns Hopkins carrying a folder of credentials she hoped would...
On February 13, 2021, Winter Storm Uri slammed into Texas with temperatures the state hadn't seen in a generation. In Austin, a young mother named...
On January 15, 2009, passengers on US Airways Flight 1549 braced for impact as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger glided their crippled Airbus onto the Hudson...
High in the White Mountains of eastern California, where the soil is almost pure limestone and rainfall barely reaches ten inches a year, stands a...
Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Britain. Heading into the 1924 Paris Olympics, he was the heavy favorite to win the 100 meters —...
In 1828, missionary Adoniram Judson purchased the freedom of a Burmese slave named Ko Tha Byu. The man was a former bandit from the Karen...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal carrying the weight of years — injuries, surgeries, and a...
In the autumn of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. His operas had fallen from public favor. Creditors circled. His health was failing...
During the London Blitz of 1940-41, something remarkable happened in the churches of England. Pews that had sat half-empty for years suddenly overflowed. At St....
In 2018, Kathrine Switzer returned to the Boston Marathon — fifty-one years after she became the first woman to officially run it. In 1967, race...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right side. Creditors circled. London...
In the summer of 1924, Scotland's fastest man arrived in Paris carrying the hopes of an entire nation. Eric Liddell was the heavy favorite to...
For decades before the American Civil War, brave conductors on the Underground Railroad risked their lives to shuttle enslaved people northward, one family at a...
Eric Liddell became famous for refusing to run on Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympics, then winning gold in the 400 meters. The world celebrated...
Imagine a scientist in a high-tech lab, surrounded by screens displaying a sea of data points. She is analyzing information to solve a critical problem—how to predict and mitigate climate change. Each data point tells a story, a whisper of...
On the rugged coast of Cornwall, England, the Lizard Lighthouse has burned without interruption since 1752. Keepers came and went. Wars raged across Europe. Empires...
On a clear night, I found myself standing under a vast, starry sky, far from the city’s glow. The depth of that darkness was breathtaking—a tapestry of stars, shimmering like diamonds scattered across velvet. As I stared up, I remembered...
In 1960, the Aral Sea stretched across 26,000 square miles of Central Asia — the fourth largest lake on earth. Fishing boats crowded its harbors....
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation. When Sergeant Karl...
On August 5, 2010, seven hundred thousand tons of rock collapsed inside Chile's San Jose copper mine, sealing thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. They had...
On May 22, 2011, a mile-wide tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. Among the wreckage stood what...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final carrying the weight of years of injury and comeback. He...