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When Roberto Muñoz retired after forty-one years directing the community choir in San Marcos, Texas, the members threw him a banquet. During the speeches, someone...
In September 1945, when Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo to accept Japan's formal surrender, his aides prepared a convoy of armored vehicles, flags snapping from...
In 1980, restorer Gianluigi Colalucci climbed the scaffolding inside the Sistine Chapel and pressed a small solvent-soaked compress against a darkened section of Michelangelo's ceiling....
In 1980, a team of restorers climbed scaffolding in the Sistine Chapel to begin one of the most controversial art restorations in history. For nearly...
In 250 AD, a devastating plague swept through the Roman Empire. The illness — likely smallpox or measles — killed as many as five thousand...
In 1894, George Washington Carver arrived at Iowa State College as the only Black student on campus. Born into slavery, stolen as an infant, and...
In September 1666, the Great Fire of London consumed thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, and the medieval St. Paul's Cathedral. The city smoldered for days....
Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Fellowship in Sacramento sang about God's provision. They tithed faithfully, attended Wednesday night Bible study, and fasted during...
In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, counted down to what officials called "Day Zero" — the day the city's reservoirs would run dry. Four million...
Margaret Chen kept her Red Cross first aid manual on the kitchen shelf between a cookbook and a potted basil plant. She had taken the...
Every summer, lifeguards along the Gulf Coast at Pensacola Beach, Florida, pull dozens of swimmers from riptides — narrow channels of water rushing seaward at...
In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to his laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London and found a petri dish he'd accidentally left...
In 1720, a twenty-year-old German nobleman named Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf wandered into an art gallery in Düsseldorf. He was wealthy, educated, and comfortable —...
In 1739, the Anglican clergy of Bristol, England, had largely abandoned the coal miners of Kingswood. These workers — their faces blackened with soot, their...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a man claiming to be a doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The...
In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts knelt in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales, and prayed a simple...
Margaret Chen had been terrified of bees since she was seven years old — the summer a yellow jacket crawled into her Kool-Aid and introduced...
In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, a...
In 1845, Michael Faraday stood in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, passing a beam of light through a block of heavy...
For eleven years, Maria Santos carried a secret through the doors of her church in San Antonio. She smiled during worship, volunteered in the nursery,...
In April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first-ever photograph of a black hole — a glowing ring of superheated gas...
In the 1930s, Barbara McClintock spent her days at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, bent over ears of corn. While other scientists dismissed...
In 1954, Arturo Toscanini stepped down as conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra after seventeen years. He had shaped one of the most celebrated ensembles...