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In 2014, twelve-year-old Marcus Thompson lived with his grandmother in a narrow rowhouse in Baltimore. She had two phones — a cordless on the kitchen...
In 1995, physicist Eric Cornell and his colleague Carl Wieman achieved something remarkable at the University of Colorado. They cooled rubidium atoms to nearly absolute...
On July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards stood before a congregation in Enfield, Connecticut, and read from a manuscript in his characteristically quiet, measured voice. He...
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer had suffered a debilitating stroke four years earlier that paralyzed...
In 1983, a programmer named Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project with a radical idea: software should be free — not free as in no...
In 2018, a family in Greenville, South Carolina found their mailbox smashed and racial slurs spray-painted across their garage door. The Hendersons had moved into...
In 1864, along a bend of the Mississippi River, formerly enslaved men and women walked rows of cotton and corn they had planted with their...
For centuries, European scholars stared at the temples and tombs of Egypt, captivated by the elegant hieroglyphics carved into every surface. They knew the symbols...
In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna — one of the very churches John addressed in Revelation — dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp...
When Maria and Carlos Gutierrez adopted their daughter from foster care in Houston in 2019, everyone assumed they'd rename her. That's what families did —...
In 1516, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed a massive altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Isenheim, Alsace. The patients there suffered from ergotism —...
In the winter of 155 AD, Roman soldiers led the elderly bishop Polycarp into the stadium at Smyrna. The crowd roared for his blood. The...
In 2010, after the earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, a American nurse named Sarah Collins arrived at a makeshift clinic built from tarps and scrap wood. Generators...
In the summer of 1727, the small village of Herrnhut in Saxony was tearing itself apart. Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf had opened his estate to...
On a Tuesday evening in March 2019, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason stepped onto the stage at London's Royal Festival Hall and began playing Elgar's Cello Concerto....
During the darkest days of the London Blitz in 1940, King George VI made a quiet decision that spoke louder than any wartime speech. Each...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864. Raiders kidnapped him and his mother when he was an infant. His mother...
In 2012, a young Afghan woman named Sakena Yacoobi quietly opened a school in a basement in Herat. No banners. No press conferences. No armed...
In April 1789, HMS Bounty sailed through the South Pacific under Captain William Bligh. The crew had spent five months in Tahiti, living in paradise...
In 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris, a gold medal around his neck, the world cheering his name. The moment shimmered...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had left his right hand partially paralyzed. His London operas were...
In the winter of 1632, an eighteen-year-old French soldier named Nicholas Herman stood staring at a leafless tree in the frozen countryside of Lorraine. The...
Margaret Ellington taught piano in her living room in Savannah for forty-one years. She never once slapped a student's hand for hitting a wrong note....
In 2014, a young fisherman named David Ochieng worked the pre-dawn waters of Lake Victoria near Kisumu, Kenya. Fishing was all he knew — his...