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In the misty hollows of eastern Kentucky, a third-generation beekeeper named Earl Combs tends forty-seven hives scattered across his family's land. Ask him about any...
In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither...
In the summer of 1680, Scottish Covenanters gathered in secret on the windswept slopes of the Ayrshire moors, risking imprisonment and death for the simple...
In 1696, Isaac Newton — the man who had unlocked the laws of gravity — accepted an unexpected appointment as Warden of England's Royal Mint....
In 2016, the city council of Brownsville, Brooklyn voted to demolish the old Brownsville Recreation Center on Linden Boulevard. The building was crumbling, its windows...
In 2018, forensic pathologist Dr. Richard Shepherd published his memoir *Unnatural Causes*, recounting forty years of examining the dead. He observed that the most reliable...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of prison after nineteen years — hardened, bitter, and convinced no one could ever see him...
In January 1865, night riders swept onto Moses Carver's farm in Diamond, Missouri, and stole a sickly infant named George along with his mother, Mary....
In the early fifth century, Irish raiders tore sixteen-year-old Patricius from his family's estate in Roman Britain and dragged him across the sea. For six...
In 1987, a young furniture maker named Tomás Herrera walked into a workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, and apprenticed himself to master woodworker Don Refugio. For...
In February 1974, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sat in his Moscow apartment knowing Soviet agents were coming to arrest him. He had spent years documenting the horrors...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his...
Every winter in Antarctica, emperor penguins crowd together in colonies of forty thousand or more — a churning sea of identical black-and-white bodies huddled against...
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's *Crime and Punishment*, a young intellectual named Raskolnikov commits murder, convinced he stands above ordinary moral law. He believes some men are...
In 2002, scientists Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, and H. Robert Horvitz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering something remarkable inside every...
When Desmond Tutu was nine years old, he was walking with his mother down a street in Johannesburg. Under apartheid, Black South Africans were routinely...
In neonatal intensive care units, doctors have long prescribed something remarkably low-tech for premature babies: kangaroo care — holding the infant skin-to-skin against a parent's...
In the Antarctic winter, an emperor penguin colony can number over ten thousand birds, all huddled together on the ice in a single dark mass...
In George MacDonald's *The Princess and the Goblin*, young Princess Irene receives a gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother who lives in a hidden tower room:...
Johann Sebastian Bach is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. His works — from the Brandenburg Concertos...
A hiring committee in rural Iowa once asked each candidate the same question: "Why should we hire you as our farmhand?" One man listed his...
In 1935, Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa proposed something astonishing: buried inside the nucleus of every atom is a force so powerful it defies everything we...
In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something devastating in the Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors were dying of...
In the autumn of 1953, Frederick Buechner was a twenty-seven-year-old novelist living in Manhattan. He had published two well-received books, moved in literary circles, and...