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In 2012, a surgical team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York began using fluorescence-guided surgery to remove cancerous tumors. The surgeon would inject a...
By May of 1738, John Wesley had already been ordained for thirteen years. He had crossed the Atlantic to serve as a missionary in Georgia,...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, carrying news that was already two and a half years old. The Emancipation...
In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy opened an envelope postmarked from Madras, India. Inside were nine pages of mathematical formulas scrawled by an unknown...
In 2019, a family camping in Glacier National Park woke to the sound of something heavy pushing against their bear canister. The father, Greg Walton,...
In October 2023, rescue workers in Hatay, Turkey — still clearing wreckage from the February earthquake — recovered a cell phone from beneath a collapsed...
Seven-year-old Elena Vasquez was wheeled into Portland General's trauma unit on a Tuesday evening, her right arm broken in two places after falling from the...
In 1767, the poet William Cowper moved to Olney, England, already haunted by bouts of severe melancholy that had twice driven him to the brink...
Dwight L. Moody never graduated from the fifth grade. When he first applied to join Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston in 1855, the deacons...
In 1600, Caravaggio unveiled *The Calling of Saint Matthew* in a small Roman chapel, and viewers gasped. The painting depicts a dim, ordinary room where...
In 1539, when the Great Bible was placed in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, something remarkable happened. For the first time, common English men and...
On the night of April 24, 387 AD, in the great basilica of Milan, a forty-two-year-old rhetoric professor named Aurelius Augustinus stepped down into the...
When Mithat Isik arrived in Altenburg, Germany, as a Syrian refugee in 2015, he had every reason to hold back. He was a trained pharmacist...
In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul gave Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna a simple way out. The elderly pastor, eighty-six years old, stood in a packed...
In 1853, a seventeen-year-old girl named Abbie Burgess took over the twin lighthouses on Matinicus Rock, a barren granite outcrop twenty-five miles off the coast...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a principle that still guides orthopedic medicine today. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stresses placed...
Leonard Cohen spent nearly five years writing *Hallelujah*. He filled notebooks with draft after draft — roughly eighty verses in all — searching for the...
In 1838, George Müller sat at a breakfast table in Bristol, England, with three hundred orphans and not a single crumb of food in the...
In 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in Tegel military prison outside Berlin, arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler. This was a man who...
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry walked through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards look away. Three hundred...
In September 2013, Mariano Rivera walked to the pitcher's mound at Yankee Stadium for the final time. Nineteen seasons. Six hundred fifty-two saves — more...
On June 2, 1953, over twenty million people across Britain huddled around small television sets to watch something most had never seen — a coronation....
In the winter of 1854, a nineteen-year-old walked into New Park Street Chapel in Southwark, London, and stepped behind a pulpit that had intimidated seasoned...
In 1464, a massive block of Carrara marble was quarried for the cathedral of Florence. Two sculptors attempted to shape it — Agostino di Duccio...