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On July 4, 1885, nine-year-old Joseph Meister was attacked by a rabid dog near his village in Alsace, suffering fourteen bite wounds on his hands,...
In the winter of 1943, the sound of a buzzer echoed through a narrow house at Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom —...
On February 18, 1943, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich carrying a suitcase full of contraband. Not weapons. Not...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was foolish — maybe even reckless. As director of the Space...
On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 clipped the 14th Street Bridge moments after takeoff from Washington National Airport and plunged into the ice-choked...
On March 16, 1968, twenty-four-year-old helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr. flew low over the village of My Lai in South Vietnam's Quang Ngai Province. What...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...
On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
On October 9, 2012, a masked Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and shot fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai in the head. The bullet...
In the winter of 1942, a knock came at a farmhouse door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village nestled in the mountains of south-central France....
In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
In May 2002, Pat Tillman walked away from the Arizona Cardinals and a $3.6 million contract to enlist in the United States Army. Eight months...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman made thirteen trips from freedom back into the slave-holding South — back into the very darkness she had escaped....
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing a Dodgers uniform with the number 42 on his back....
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was not a soldier. He was a thirty-two-year-old account manager from Cranbury, New Jersey — a...
In the 2016 film *Hacksaw Ridge*, there is a scene that should haunt every person who has ever wondered what courage really looks like. Private...
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...
In the autumn of 1943, a slim Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox....
On October 9, 2012, a masked gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, and asked one question: "Who is Malala?" Fifteen-year-old...