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Monday, September 14, 2026
In 1796, Edward Jenner developed the first smallpox vaccine after observing that milkmaids exposed to cowpox seemed immune to the deadly disease. The solution was...
In April 1955, parents across America faced an agonizing choice. Polio had terrorized their families for decades — paralyzing children, filling iron lungs, closing swimming...
In a dusty laboratory at the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, keeper Billy Collett does something that looks like madness. Several times a week,...
In the climbing community, they call it "sewing machine leg" — that uncontrollable trembling that seizes your calf when fear takes over on the rock...
In 2018, Dr. Rachel Grubb, an emergency physician in rural Kentucky, treated a teenager named Cole who had been bitten by a copperhead while hiking...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis stood in the maternity ward of Vienna General Hospital, haunted by a devastating puzzle. One in...
In March 1748, a young sailor named John Newton clung to the rigging of the HMS Greyhound as waves tore across the deck off the...
In Schindler's List, Oskar Schindler starts as a war profiteer who wants Jewish workers because they're cheap. Somewhere along the way, their lives become more important than his profit. He spends his entire fortune buying their survival.
In Hacksaw Ridge, Desmond Doss refuses to carry a weapon but volunteers as a combat medic. On Okinawa, he single-handedly rescues 75 wounded soldiers, lowering them down a cliff under enemy fire. Greater love has no one than this: to...