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298 illustrations — Lessons from history, biography, and world events
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev sat in his study at the University of St. Petersburg, wrestling with a professor's ordinary problem: how to organize his...
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This principle governs controversies in cabinets, families, and nations across all ages.
The Prophet compares Israel's transgression to a high wall that begins with a small rent, or breach, in its lower section—a structural weakness that seems manageable at first.
In May of 1543, a dying Nicolaus Copernicus lay in his bed at the cathedral chapter house in Frombork, Poland. He had served as a...
On a cold night in 1929, Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena,...
We hear denunciations of unfaithfulness and immediately agree; yet we fail to recognize ourselves in those very terms.
Consider a wealthy man of vigorous health who dwells in a handsome house and adds yearly to his estates, yet his soul is corrupt.
As William Thomson notes in *The Land and the Book*, the true force of this comparison emerges only after the harvest concludes and the keeper abandons the lodge.
Jacob's blessing gave pre-eminence to Judah and Joseph's son Ephraim, yet structural inequality festered.
The original audience resisted Elohim on two grounds: first, because He permitted His people's captivity in a distant land under oppression; second, because liberation seemed impossible, even beyond God's power to effect.
Yet Elohim uses these very obstacles to stimulate human strength and ingenuity.
On March 9, 1841, the marble halls of the United States Supreme Court fell silent as Justice Joseph Story delivered a verdict that would echo...
Trees inhabited Eden's garden where Yahweh first conversed with mankind beneath their shadow.
Yet even these legendary forests prove inadequate before Adonai's majesty.
Maclaren identifies three movements in this fatal process.
Trust is not mere intellectual assent or emotional confidence.
It is well to have Isaiahs in society, for Hezekiahs could never keep it together.
Such an errand would contradict God's character—He cannot morally compel His messenger toward wickedness.
Strachey observed that the Medes cared not for gold, but for blood—even the blood of boys and infants.
In December 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor. Wilberforce — a wealthy young Member of Parliament — had recently...
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before nearly six hundred people in Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York, invited by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society...
The reason is absolute: "For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." Exell observes that men have rightly been infuriated by earthly deliverances.
The prophet identifies three critical elements of state stability: the good counsel of wise senators, a strong disciplined army, and adequate finances.
In a cramped workshop on Mainz's Quintinsstraße, sometime around 1455, Johannes Gutenberg lifted a freshly printed sheet from his wooden press and held it to...