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Pascal's Night of Fire

On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — the brilliant French mathematician who had already invented the calculator and proved the existence of...

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The Garden Behind First Baptist

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The Peace Nobody Requested

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The Uninvited Rescue Fleet

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The Scholar Who Gathered the Forgotten Girls

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