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50 illustrations for sermon preparation
On February 23, 1945, a small group of Marines climbed Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag at its...
On April 9, 1945, just two weeks before Allied forces liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows. The camp doctor who...
In May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...
In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750, the world barely noticed. The city council's official response was to complain about the...
In 1637, the Dutch city of Haarlem was gripped by tulip fever. Fortunes changed hands over small, wrinkled bulbs that looked like dried onions. A...
Walk through the old churchyard at First Presbyterian in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where tombstones date back to 1664. Notice something peculiar: nearly every grave faces...
In 2013, mountaineer Conrad Anker led a team up the treacherous southwest face of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. The route had never been completed....
In 2019, a couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, hired a contractor to open up their cramped kitchen. They wanted the wall between the kitchen and...
Margaret Ellison was eighty-three when the hospice nurse told her family to gather. Her lungs were failing. Her body was shutting down. But when her...
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, twelve scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources starved to death — surrounded by tons of edible...
In 2019, a beekeeper named Sarah Mapelli stood on a stage in Portland, Oregon, with twenty thousand honeybees crawling across her bare skin. The audience...
In Cape Town, South Africa, tourists file through the narrow corridors of Robben Island's maximum-security block. They stand before Cell 5, where Nelson Mandela spent...
On April 12, 1955, scientists at the University of Michigan announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." Within minutes, church bells...
In 2019, Dr. William Matsui at Johns Hopkins watched a patient named Gerald, a retired Baltimore bus driver, ring the brass bell mounted on the...
Every beekeeper knows the peculiar vulnerability of the honeybee. Unlike wasps or hornets, a honeybee can only sting once. Its barbed stinger lodges deep in...
Every year at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, New South Wales, handlers carefully grip the heads of eastern brown snakes and taipans — two...
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...
When a patient receives a bone marrow transplant, the old marrow — diseased, failing, producing only death — is destroyed. New donor marrow is infused,...
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...
At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...
On a warm afternoon in late August, a beekeeper named Margaret was checking her hives when a honeybee landed on her bare forearm. She didn't...
When a honeybee drives its barbed stinger into human skin, something remarkable happens. The stinger tears away from the bee's abdomen, taking with it a...
Marcus Chen was seven the summer his grandfather kept bees in the backyard of their home in Asheville, North Carolina. One August afternoon, a honeybee...
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