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In 1988, a peach farmer named Harold Gentry in Chilton County, Alabama, watched his orchard wither through the worst drought in forty years. Every tree...
In 2015, orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with Castleman disease, a rare and life-threatening immune disorder. He nearly died five times. But rather...
When the old limestone bridge on Route 7 in Millbrook started showing cracks, the county called in a structural engineer named Carol Reeves. She spent...
In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had killed multiple people without remorse, and guards called him the most...
In 2018, a courtroom in Dallas became the setting for something no parent should endure. Botham Jean had been shot and killed in his own...
During the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, as Nazi forces strangled the city and nearly a million civilians starved, a small group of Soviet scientists faced...
On the western tip of Tenerife, where the Atlantic crashes against volcanic cliffs, stands the Faro de Teno — a lighthouse that has guided sailors...
In 1933, as Adolf Hitler consolidated power, most German churches bent to accommodate the new regime. They draped swastikas beside crosses and rewrote liturgies to...
In 1905, Albert Einstein solved a puzzle that had baffled physicists for years. Scientists knew that shining light on certain metals could knock electrons free...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that upended what biologists assumed about life: DNA, the molecule...
When sixteen-year-old William Colgate left his family's farm in Maryland and set out for New York City in 1801, he had almost nothing. Along the...
In 1887, at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts, the song leader Daniel Towner invited people to share what God was doing in...
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched five words into his journal:...
In 2019, photographer Lindsay Adler gave a TED Talk in New York where she showed two versions of the same portrait. The first had been...
In 1816, French physician René Laennec faced a dilemma. He needed to examine the heart of a young woman but felt it improper to press...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small gathering in Loughor, Wales, and issued a blunt...
In 2011, Ron Finley stood staring at a neglected strip of dirt between the sidewalk and the curb on Burnside Avenue in South Central Los...
For two years, six-year-old Emma Reyes knew her father only as a voice on a satellite phone. Staff Sergeant David Reyes had deployed to Afghanistan...
In 1858, a young Charles Blondin stretched a tightrope across Niagara Falls and asked his manager, Harry Colcord, to ride on his back. Colcord agreed,...
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and children crammed into two wards. The...
In 1716, Antonio Stradivari pressed his hands against a spruce top in his Cremona workshop and shaped what musicians now call the "Messiah" violin. Three...
In 1731, a young German nobleman named Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf attended the coronation of King Christian VI in Copenhagen. There he met Anthony, an...
In the summer of 2019, graduate student Maria Chen spent three weeks in Costa Rica's Monteverde Cloud Forest, recording hours of ambient sound for her...
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden, torn between the life he had been living...