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In 2019, journalist Sarah Marquis spent three months hiking alone across remote stretches of Tasmania's wilderness. She carried a GPS device but quickly discovered something...
In 1943, a Norwegian fisherman named Arne Kvalvik discovered that his boat compass had been sabotaged by the German occupation forces. They had placed a...
In 1785, a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlor of John Newton, the aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in...
In 1986, the coal town of Centralia, Pennsylvania had a problem far worse than its famous underground mine fire. As toxic gases seeped through basement...
In 1834, when the British Emancipation Act took effect across the Caribbean, a formerly enslaved man named James Williams in Jamaica reportedly wept not because...
For eleven years, Maria Gonzalez made minimum payments on her student loans — $287 each month, mailed like clockwork from her apartment in Des Moines....
In 2019, twenty-three-year-old Desiree Martinez sat in a county social worker's office in Bakersfield, California, staring at a manila folder. Inside were the records of...
In June 2016, the Brazos River in Texas swelled beyond anything residents of Simonton had seen in over a century. Floodwaters swallowed roads, turned neighborhoods...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
In 1904, sixteen-year-old William Borden graduated from a prestigious Chicago prep school as heir to the Borden dairy fortune. His family sent him on a...
On April 26, 1986, operators at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine began a routine safety test on Reactor No. 4. To complete it,...
When fire consumed Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as the iconic spire collapsed into the burning nave. But...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that,...
In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring at the cold water passing beneath him. Two...
On February 6, 2023, residents of Hatay Province in southern Turkey woke to devastation. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake had leveled entire neighborhoods overnight. Rescue worker Elif...
In 1987, Margaret Ellison of Tupelo, Mississippi, kept a pristine house. Every Sunday she arranged fresh-cut hydrangeas on the foyer table, polished the silver until...
William Randolph Hearst spent decades amassing one of the largest private art collections in history. From his castle perched above the California coastline, the newspaper...
In 2019, a young woman named Lucia drove her sputtering Civic into a small repair shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She had never been there...
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's tragic error, no one in her small New York village...
In 2010, when a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. David Vanderpool arrived at a makeshift clinic with almost nothing. No electricity. No sterile operating...
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Edwards stood before her small congregation in Macon, Georgia, holding a ceramic coffee mug. It was chipped, stained...
Every autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies lift off from Canada and the northern United States and fly nearly 3,000 miles south to a specific cluster...
In the autumn of 1871, Dwight L. Moody was already filling auditoriums across America. Yet two women in his Chicago congregation — Sarah Anne Cooke...
On March 17, 1977, George Foreman shuffled into his dressing room in Puerto Rico after losing a grueling twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young. Foreman was...