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In 1912, Claude Monet received a diagnosis that should have ended his career. Cataracts were clouding both eyes, slowly stealing the one thing a painter...
On March 21, 1965, approximately 3,200 marchers set out from Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, walking toward the state capitol in Montgomery. They...
In the spring of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. His operas had fallen out of fashion in London. Creditors circled. A stroke...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano shuffled to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The man who had sprinted across the court ten years earlier,...
On February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, South Africa, his fist raised, his wife Winnie's hand...
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott stood on the mound at Yankee Stadium and did what only a handful of pitchers in baseball history have...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained for years, overcome multiple...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His operas had fallen out of fashion. Creditors circled. A stroke four...
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
On October 20, 1968, seventy-five runners launched into the Olympic marathon through the thin air of Mexico City. The altitude — over 7,300 feet —...
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell walked across the stage at Geneva Medical College in upstate New York and received her Doctor of Medicine degree...
As we gather today, I invite you to picture a gardener tending to a young sapling. Day by day, she waters it, carefully loosens the soil, and shields it from harsh winds. The initial struggle may seem daunting; the sapling...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Once the toast of London, he now faced crippling debt, failing health, and...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor applied a hot poultice to her infected eyes. The treatment was wrong, and the damage...
On July 23, 1996, eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta's Georgia Dome, barely able to stand. Moments earlier,...
On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semi-final at the Barcelona Olympics. He had waited years for this moment,...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...
In May 1952, in a basement laboratory at King's College London, Rosalind Franklin aimed a beam of X-rays at a strand of DNA and waited....
As we delve into Psalm 23, we encounter a profound reminder of God’s unwavering love and guidance, especially in our times of crisis. “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” These opening words offer us a glimpse into...
In a cramped, leaking shed behind the École de Physique et de Chimie in Paris, Marie Curie bent over a steaming iron cauldron in the...
On October 16, 1969, fifty-seven thousand fans packed Shea Stadium in Queens, New York, to witness something the sports world had declared impossible. The New...
On the night of June 12, 1963, Myrlie Evers heard the crack of a rifle outside her home in Jackson, Mississippi. She rushed out and...