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In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales, and...
In 2019, David and Maria Fernandez were running a successful catering business in San Antonio, Texas. They had a paid-off house, a loyal clientele, and...
In the summer of 1987, two hikers named Paul Engstrom and David Chae set out to summit Mount Katahdin along Maine's Knife Edge Trail. They...
In George MacDonald's 1872 fantasy *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a thin, silken thread...
In 1977, during Argentina's military dictatorship, fourteen mothers walked to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. They wore white headscarves and carried photographs of...
In 2018, engineers drilling a water well in Coober Pedy, Australia — a remote opal mining town where summer temperatures reach 120 degrees — struck...
For thirty-one years, Maria Gonzalez set an extra place at her kitchen table in San Antonio. Every Sunday after church, she cooked enough rice, beans,...
In 1992, a young researcher named Michelle Fournet arrived in southeastern Alaska to study humpback whales. For weeks, she dropped hydrophones into the icy waters...
Every Saturday morning, Maria Gonzalez sets up a folding table outside her bakery on Magnolia Street in downtown San Antonio. She covers it with a...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a startling discovery at Vienna General Hospital. He noticed that women in the maternity ward...
In 2019, apple grower Maria Gonzalez stood in her family's orchard outside Yakima, Washington, and made a decision that horrified her neighbors. She ordered every...
On August 13, 1727, the small community of Herrnhut in Saxony was fracturing. Czech Hussites, German Pietists, and Reformed exiles — all living on Count...
In 2019, a high school in Birmingham, Alabama invited two commencement speakers. The first was a hedge fund manager who flew in on a private...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, dumping more than fifty inches of rain in four days, the city became an inland sea....
In 2019, a couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, hired a contractor to open up their cramped kitchen. They wanted the wall between the kitchen and...
In the spring of 1883, Captain Wilhelm Lindemann of the Dutch merchant vessel Elisabeth noticed something peculiar as he sailed through the Sunda Strait near...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife...
In 2018, a paramedic named Rachel Torres responded to an overdose call in a Tucson apartment complex. She had been on dozens of these runs,...
In 1836, George Müller opened an orphanage on Wilson Street in Bristol, England, with exactly one shilling in his pocket and no wealthy donors on...
Along the Avenue of the Giants in Humboldt County, California, a coastal redwood named the Immortal Tree has stood for over a thousand years. It...
In 2019, a young couple in Brooklyn purchased a neglected brownstone on Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a price that stretched every dollar they had....
In September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs across London for fifty-seven consecutive nights. Margaret Braithwaite, a schoolteacher on Albion Road in Lewisham, described...
In 2009, during the worst of the Great Recession, Howard Schultz made a decision that baffled his executive team. The Starbucks CEO walked into a...
In April 1906, a one-eyed Black preacher named William Joseph Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and watched the...