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In 1878, Pandita Ramabai stood before the scholars of Calcutta — the first woman in India to earn the title "Pandita," a Sanskrit scholar of...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez stood in a hospital room in San Antonio, Texas, holding her newborn son. Her mother-in-law had already monogrammed blankets with the...
In 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand inside the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes, a circular stone fortress rising from the marshlands of southern...
In 1521, a Basque soldier named Ignatius of Loyola lay in a castle in northern Spain, his right leg shattered by a French cannonball at...
In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms and refused to recant his writings. "My conscience is captive...
Every February in Longyearbyen, Norway — the northernmost town on earth — residents gather on the old hospital steps for a moment they have waited...
Last spring, Maria Gutierrez finally tackled the hall closet in her Chicago bungalow. For years she had shoved old coats, stained shirts, and shoes that...
In April 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. His Sunday school student,...
In 2010, researchers at Hokkaido University published a study in *Science* that stunned the engineering world. They placed a slime mold — a single-celled organism...
In 2019, a couple in Waco, Texas bought a charming 1920s bungalow, eager to renovate. They poured forty thousand dollars into gorgeous hardwood floors, custom...
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In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Hudson Taylor arrived in Shanghai wearing a black English suit and speaking not a word of Mandarin. The Chinese people regarded him...
When Marcus and Elena Torres of San Antonio learned they were expecting their first child in 2019, everyone assumed the boy would be Marcus Antonio...
In 1979, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer met for the first time at age thirty-nine. They were identical twins, separated at birth and raised by...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a doctor's mistake left her permanently blind. By the time she was a year old, her father...
During her first clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anya Krishnan pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
In the neonatal intensive care unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, a veteran nurse named Carolyn has spent twenty-three years caring for premature infants. Some of...
In May 2013, intern forecaster Kendra Williams sat at her workstation in the National Weather Service office in Norman, Oklahoma. Three times that afternoon, she...
David Chen hadn't spoken to his father in twelve years. Not since the argument that ended with a slammed door and silence that calcified into...
In 1992, neuroscientist Giacomo Rizzolatti and his team at the University of Parma made a startling discovery. While studying motor neurons in macaque monkeys, they...
When Marcus Chen arrived at a rehabilitation center in Portland after his stroke, his left hand was curled into a tight fist. The neurologist warned...
Every March, Margaret Calloway of Boone County, Kentucky, set her worn Farmer's Almanac on the kitchen windowsill and planned her garden by the sun. She...
In 2019, biologist Andrei Sourakov at the Florida Museum of Natural History placed a monarch caterpillar inside a CT scanner to watch what happens during...
Tom Hernandez ran cattle on four hundred acres outside Marfa, Texas. He told his new ranch hand something on the first day that the young...