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In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal as one of the favorites. He had trained his entire...
In the deepest waters of the ocean, below a thousand meters, sunlight cannot reach. The pressure is immense. The cold is unrelenting. By every reasonable...
On January 23, 1960, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh climbed into the bathyscaphe Trieste and began their descent into the Mariana Trench...
On October 16, 1968, Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the Olympic medal podium in Mexico City wearing only black socks — no shoes....
When a neighbor warned eighty-four-year-old Casper ten Boom that harboring Jews could mean his death, the Haarlem watchmaker did not hesitate. "It would be an...
On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, alongside six hundred marchers demanding their right to vote....
In December 1944, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a Nazi prison cell. The German pastor had been arrested for his role in the resistance against Hitler,...
On March 7, 1965, six hundred marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, heading east toward Montgomery to demand the right...
Just after midnight on June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle shot outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed to...
In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh climbed into the Trieste bathyscaphe and descended nearly seven miles into the Mariana Trench — the deepest known...
On the morning of November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges climbed out of a federal car and walked toward the front doors of William Frantz...
On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the F.W. Woolworth store on South Elm Street in Greensboro,...
On July 27, 1996, the United States women's gymnastics team stood on the edge of history at the Atlanta Olympics. They had never won a...
In 2012, a young engineer at Knight Capital Group watched in horror as a software deployment gone wrong burned through $440 million in forty-five minutes....
In software development, there's a moment every engineer dreads — the moment you press "deploy." You've written the code, run the tests, reviewed it a...
On a sweltering July night in 1893, a young man named James Cornish staggered into Provident Hospital in Chicago with a knife wound to the...
On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn for the first day of school...
In the 2010 film *The King's Speech*, King George VI stands before a microphone in 1939, tasked with addressing the entire British Empire as war...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn as the first Black man to play Major League Baseball in the modern...
Imagine a young mother standing at the entrance of a new school year, clutching her child’s hand as they face the looming brick façade. Each time the bell rings, it feels like a challenge, a call into the unknown. Thoughts...
On May 2, 1963, over a thousand young people poured out of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, singing freedom songs as they marched...
In 1929, a young German surgeon named Werner Forssmann was convinced that a thin tube could be guided through a vein and into the living...
In 1929, a twenty-five-year-old German surgical resident named Werner Forssmann believed something no one else would accept — that a thin catheter could be safely...
In 1612, a nineteen-year-old Italian painter named Artemisia Gentileschi stood in a Roman courtroom. She had been assaulted by a fellow artist, and during the...