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On October 13, 2010, shift foreman Luis Urzúa sat 2,300 feet below the Atacama Desert in Chile, where he and thirty-two other miners had been...
On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia hit Earth's atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour. The exterior temperature reached 5,000 degrees...
High in the White Mountains of eastern California, bristlecone pines cling to limestone ridges where almost nothing else survives. One of them, named Methuselah, has...
In December 1785, twenty-five-year-old William Wilberforce knocked on the door of an aging clergyman in London, unsure why he had come. He had been a...
In 2010, when thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San Jose mine, rescue teams on the surface had no idea if...
In 2010, thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine near Copiapó. For seventeen days, no one on the...
On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3: all enslaved people in the state were...
Imagine a small coastal town, once vibrant with life, now grappling with the harsh realities of climate change. The sea, once a source of joy where children splashed and fishermen cast their nets, has begun to swallow the shoreline, leaving...
In 1947, a French shepherd named Elzeard Bouffier — or so Jean Giono told us — planted acorns one by one across the barren highlands...
In 2019, a social worker in Memphis called Marcus Webb at 11 p.m. on a Tuesday. A three-day-old baby girl needed emergency placement. Marcus was...
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3...
In 1727, Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf faced an impossible situation on his estate in Saxony. He had offered refuge to persecuted Christians from across Europe...
In 1924, Eric Liddell arrived in Paris as Scotland's fastest man — the heavy favorite to win the Olympic 100-meter race. But when the competition...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered...
In 2005, botanist Dr. Elaine Solowey of Israel's Arava Institute planted a seed unlike any other. Recovered from excavations at the ancient fortress of Masada...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Copiapó, Chile, collapsed. Thirty-three miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground — deeper than two Empire...
Hurricane hunters with NOAA's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron fly directly into the most violent weather on earth. Their WP-3D Orion turboprops punch through walls of...
In 1950, Detroit was the wealthiest city per capita in America. Nearly two million people filled its neighborhoods. The Fisher Building gleamed like a cathedral...
When Adoniram Judson sailed for Burma in 1812, he carried little more than a grammar book and an unshakable conviction that the gospel would bear...
On February 6, 2023, families across southern Turkey sat down to ordinary Monday evening meals. In Gaziantep, a mother named Fatma was warming lentil soup....
By 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled London with lavish Italian operas now faced mounting debts, failing...
In 2018, a small jewelry shop on Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina, caught fire. When firefighters cleared the wreckage, owner Marcus Hadley sifted through...
When Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the 1924 Olympics, he carried a conviction that would cost him the race he'd trained his whole life...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave along the Tennessee River, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had hollowed...