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In 2005, botanist Dr. Elaine Solowey of Israel's Arava Institute planted a seed unlike any other. Recovered from excavations at the ancient fortress of Masada...
In February 1949, Ben Hogan's car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. In the split second before impact, he threw...
Imagine, for a moment, a small coastal village that has cherished its connection to the sea for generations. The villagers, with their weathered hands and sun-kissed faces, have relied on the ocean’s bounty for their livelihood and sustenance. But one...
Horatio Spafford had already lost much. A young son taken by scarlet fever. A fortune swallowed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But in...
In 1963, archaeologists excavating the ancient fortress of Masada discovered a handful of date palm seeds buried in a clay jar. For over four decades,...
In May of 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before an orchestra in Vienna to conduct the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He was almost entirely...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. Four years earlier, a stroke had left his right hand partially paralyzed. His London operas were...
In 1921, a young surgeon named Frederick Banting walked into a laboratory at the University of Toronto with an idea that most of his colleagues...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His health was failing — a stroke had partially paralyzed his right...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow soon after....
By the time Claude Monet began his most ambitious work, he was going blind. Cataracts clouded his vision so severely that the world dissolved into...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a moment that has sustained readers for generations. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the land...
In J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Return of the King*, there is a quiet moment that nearly every reader remembers. Sam Gamgee lies exhausted in the land...
When Fanny Crosby was just six weeks old, a man claiming to be a doctor applied a hot mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The...
In Alexandre Dumas's *The Count of Monte Cristo*, Edmond Dantès is a young sailor with everything ahead of him — a promotion, a wedding, a...
The 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Derek Redmond, British sprinter, had spent his entire life preparing for this moment — the 400-meter semifinal. Forty-three seconds into the...