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In 2010, engineers in Santiago, Chile, drilled a narrow borehole 2,300 feet into the earth to reach thirty-three miners trapped in the San José copper...
In the 1880s, Australian settlers in the parched Queensland outback faced a brutal irony. Their cattle were dying. Their wells had gone dry. The red...
In the year 203 AD, a twenty-two-year-old noblewoman named Perpetua stood in a Carthaginian prison, cradling her infant son. Her father — wealthy, connected, desperate...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. Then he discovered the heats fell on...
In 2018, mountaineer Melissa Arnot became one of only a handful of American women to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. She described the moment...
In the heart of our bustling lives, we often find ourselves wrestling with the complexities of culture, much like the biblical figures who navigated their own tumultuous times. Picture a small boat on a stormy sea, tossed by waves of...
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has thrown its beam across the Atlantic since 1870. Sailors caught in the treacherous...
Deborah was a woman of remarkable faith, a leader in a time when her people were struggling under oppression. One day, she found herself at a crossroads. The enemy was closing in, and despair lurked in every shadow. Yet, instead...
On August 25, 1944, the great bell Emmanuel — thirteen tons of bronze hanging in the south tower of Notre-Dame — had been silent through...
A few years ago, I had the privilege of visiting a local engineering firm that was tasked with designing a bridge meant not just to connect two towns, but to unite their communities. As I walked through the bustling office,...
In October 2001, workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath the rubble. It was barely alive — an...
In 2014, the pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Laon in northern France sat silent. Centuries of dust, neglect, and amateur repairs had choked its 3,000...
In 2019, backpacker Sarah Chen spent eleven days hiking through Denali National Park without ever seeing the mountain. Clouds hung low and thick over the...
On October 13, 2010, Mario Sepulveda stepped into a narrow metal capsule called the Phoenix, 2,300 feet beneath the Atacama Desert in Chile. For sixty-nine...
In the spring of 1927, the Mississippi River swelled beyond anything the Army Corps of Engineers had planned for. For decades, they had built levees...
For six long years in Rangoon, Adoniram Judson preached, translated, and pleaded — and won almost no one. By 1818, he had exactly zero Burmese...
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a strong contender for the 400-meter semifinals. Midway through the race, his hamstring snapped...
When Sir Christopher Wren began rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666, the old cathedral had been one of the...
In a bone marrow transplant, the most terrifying step comes before the healing begins. Oncologists call it conditioning — rounds of chemotherapy or total body...
On October 17, 2010, a billion people around the world held their breath. For sixty-nine days, thirty-three miners had been trapped two thousand feet beneath...
On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shook the Pacific floor and sent a forty-foot tsunami racing toward Japan's northeastern coast. Entire towns vanished. Nearly...
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation as punishment....
In 1948, three years after Allied bombs had reduced Berlin to rubble, a young American pilot named Gail Halvorsen stood at the Tempelhof Airport fence....
In 2019, a high school track coach named John Woodruff in Richmond, Virginia, noticed a freshman named DeShawn sitting alone in the bleachers after school...