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In a Dallas County courtroom in 2019, three-year-old Marcus sat on his foster mother Angela's lap, wearing a tiny bow tie he'd picked out himself....
In 155 AD, the elderly bishop Polycarp of Smyrna stood before a Roman proconsul who demanded he renounce Christ. Polycarp replied, "Eighty-six years I have...
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In 1944, Corrie ten Boom sat in a cell at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped of every comfort — her home, her watch shop, her beloved...
In May 1945, Winston Churchill stood as the lion of the free world. He had rallied Britain through the Blitz, stared down the Nazi war...
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A mechanic in Tulsa named Ray Garfield kept a 1967 Mustang in his garage for twenty-three years. He polished the chrome every Saturday. He kept...
In 1958, the congregation of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem gathered not in their grand sanctuary but in the basement of a half-finished building on...
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On November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. Fans who had inherited their loyalty from...
In December 1944, Betsie ten Boom died on the cold floor of Ravensbrück concentration camp. She and her sister Corrie had been arrested for hiding...
On a Sunday afternoon in November 1943, twenty-five-year-old Leonard Bernstein stepped onto the podium at Carnegie Hall. Bruno Walter had fallen ill. There was no...
In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads in London. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in England, had told her she could become...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at the water below him. Weeks earlier, he...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...
In 1932, a London parlormaid named Gladys Aylward stood on the platform at Liverpool Street Station clutching a one-way ticket to China. She had no...
On Christmas Day, 1989, Romanian radio crackled to life with words no one had dared speak in forty-four years: "The dictator has fallen. You are...
In 1987, master potter Magdalena Suarez stood in her workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, at four in the morning. The kiln had gone cold overnight. No...
In 2019, a thirty-two-year-old man named Derek Mitchell from Memphis received a kidney from a twenty-four-year-old woman who had died in a car accident. Before...
In December 2016, after four years of relentless bombardment, the ancient city of Aleppo fell into an eerie silence. Entire neighborhoods sat in total darkness...
In 2019, a diner in Raleigh, North Carolina, called Clyde Cooper's BBQ had a regular they knew only as "the quiet man." He came in...
In 1987, a cardiac surgeon in Portland named Dr. Raymond Kelley made an error during a routine bypass that left a forty-year-old mother partially paralyzed....