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In 2008, executives at Lehman Brothers worked from the thirty-first floor of their Midtown Manhattan headquarters, surrounded by floor-to-ceiling glass that made the city look...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was already famous across Europe — a mathematical...
In April 1906, a one-eyed son of former slaves named William Seymour stood in a crumbling former stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and...
In 1793, a Northamptonshire cobbler named William Carey stepped off a ship in Calcutta with little more than a printing press and a stubborn conviction...
In 333 BC, Alexander the Great rode into Jerusalem on a warhorse draped in purple, his cavalry stretching behind him like a river of bronze....
In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado...
In 2019, a thirty-one-year-old teacher named Marcus Reed received a double lung transplant at Duke University Hospital. The donor was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore who...
In the summer of 1993, a drought gripped the farmland outside Broken Bow, Nebraska. For eleven weeks, the fields cracked and the cattle grew thin....
In 1963, photographer Stanley Tretick captured one of the most iconic images in White House history. Two-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. is crawling through the...
In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Greek scholar with a doctorate in New Testament — did something his colleagues found baffling. He left a promising...
On November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal — a man who had already revolutionized geometry, invented the mechanical calculator, and dazzled the...
On January 30, 1945, 121 U.S. Army Rangers crawled through the grass toward the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines. Inside the wire, over five...
For twenty-three years, Maria Gutierrez carried a sealed envelope in the bottom of her jewelry box. Inside was a letter from her birth mother —...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led from his prison cell in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a stake surrounded by bundled sticks. His crime...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...
In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms and declared, "Here I stand. I can do no other....
For years, Dr. Paul Farmer watched from hospital balconies in Boston as medical students discussed tropical diseases in the abstract — malaria, tuberculosis, cholera —...
In 2016, a team of researchers at Northwestern University led by Teresa Woodruff captured something extraordinary on camera. At the exact moment a human egg...
In 1960, the Aral Sea stretched across 26,000 square miles of Central Asia — the fourth-largest lake on earth. Fed by two mighty rivers, the...
When Hurricane Maria obliterated Puerto Rico's power grid in September 2017, the island went silent. No cell towers, no internet, no landlines. Three and a...
In 2018, a trauma surgeon named Dr. Liz Scarlett gave a talk at a medical conference in Nashville. She rolled up her sleeve and showed...
On November 22, 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at a telegraph office in New York and read a message from his wife that began with two...
Eric Liddell could have stayed famous. After winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics — a story later immortalized in *Chariots...
In 2019, a vacant lot on Magnolia Street in Newark, New Jersey, was nothing but cracked concrete, broken glass, and waist-high weeds. Neighbors walked past...