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Shortly after midnight on September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov sat alone in the commander's chair at Serpukhov-15, a secret Soviet military bunker south...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched across...
On the evening of December 1, 1955, forty-two-year-old Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day stitching seams at...
In 2010, neuroscientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel made a remarkable discovery about the human brain. Dr. Yadin Dudai and his team...
*Hacksaw Ridge* tells the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist medic who refused to carry a weapon into combat during World War II....
In September 1973, the Soviet KGB seized a hidden copy of a manuscript that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn had spent nearly a decade writing in secret. His...
On September 19, 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki stood on a Warsaw street and waited for the German roundup he knew was coming. While...
On February 28, 1951, thirteen parents in Topeka, Kansas filed a lawsuit in federal court that would reshape the nation. Their complaint named the Board...
On September 20, 1973, more than 30,000 spectators packed the Houston Astrodome for a tennis match that carried the weight of something far bigger than...
Long before television crews descended on Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson had been walking. Since the 1930s, she had gone door to door across Dallas...
On March 2, 1955, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after classes at Booker T. Washington High School. When the driver ordered...
On February 13, 1960, Diane Nash — a twenty-one-year-old Fisk University student from Chicago — walked into a downtown Nashville lunch counter with dozens of...
In 1984, Australian gastroenterologist Barry Marshall had a theory no one would believe. He was convinced that most stomach ulcers were caused by a spiral-shaped...
On Easter Sunday, 1939, contralto Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall did something his colleagues considered reckless, perhaps absurd. He believed stomach ulcers — long blamed on stress,...
In 1984, an Australian physician named Barry Marshall was certain he had discovered the true cause of most stomach ulcers — not stress or spicy...
In the winter of 1960, Diane Nash and dozens of Fisk University students sat down at segregated lunch counters across downtown Nashville. They ordered coffee....
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that changed how we understand the human body. He found that bones are not static structures...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, young Jem Finch believes his father Atticus is the bravest man in Maycomb County after watching him drop...
In George MacDonald's beloved fantasy *The Princess and the Goblin*, a young princess named Irene receives an extraordinary gift from her mysterious great-great-grandmother: a nearly...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, there is a moment that still haunts readers over a century later. Jean Valjean, the former convict, has rebuilt his...
In 1984, Australian physician Barry Marshall had a theory that nearly every gastroenterologist in the world rejected: stomach ulcers weren't caused by stress or spicy...
In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, there is a scene that stops the neighborhood cold. A rabid dog staggers down a quiet Alabama street,...
December 1937. Japanese forces had captured Nanjing, and a wave of unspeakable violence swept through the city. Soldiers moved street by street, dragging women and...