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In 1741, George Frideric Handel was broke, paralyzed by debt, and half-convinced his career was over. Then a librettist named Charles Jennens handed him a...
In 1194, a devastating fire swept through the town of Chartres, France, destroying most of its beloved cathedral. The townspeople could have walked away. They...
In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Shinya Yamanaka demonstrated something remarkable about human cells. He discovered that mature, specialized cells could be reprogrammed back to their...
When Michelangelo carved his masterpiece David from a single block of Carrara marble, he worked with a principle that every sculptor understands but few of...
In 2004, neuroscientist Michael Gershon at Columbia University published research confirming what he called "the second brain" — a network of over 500 million neurons...
In his 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Sir Alexander Fleming issued a warning about the very miracle he had given the world. Penicillin, he cautioned,...
In 1892, a German surgeon named Julius Wolff published a discovery that reshaped our understanding of the human skeleton. Bone, he found, is not static....
In 1887, at a Dwight L. Moody evangelistic meeting, a young man stood during the testimony time. He wasn't eloquent. He didn't have a dramatic...
In 1886, Daniel Towner was leading music at a D.L. Moody evangelistic campaign when a young man stood during the testimony time. He was no...
In 1887, musician Daniel Towner was leading worship at a Dwight L. Moody evangelistic crusade when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...
If you have ever used Waze, the popular navigation app, you know the frustration. You are driving a route you have taken a hundred times,...
In 1883, a young Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudí took over the design of a church in Barcelona — the Sagrada Família. What began as...
In 1886, at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts, a young man stood during the testimony service. He was no theologian. He...
In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and made an extraordinary demand. Rickey wanted Robinson to break baseball's color...
In 1690s England, a teenage Isaac Watts sat fidgeting in the pews of Above Bar Congregational Church in Southampton, miserable over the flat, joyless psalm-singing...
In 1887, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...
In 1887, at a Dwight L. Moody evangelistic meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts, a young man stood during the testimony time. He was not eloquent. He...
In 2002, Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for a discovery about something we rarely celebrate: death....
In February 1941, an Oxford policeman named Albert Alexander became the first patient ever treated with penicillin. Alexander had scratched his face on a rose...
In 1887, during one of D.L. Moody's evangelistic meetings, a young man stood to share his testimony. He was not eloquent. He had no polished...
In 1887, at a D.L. Moody revival meeting, the music director Daniel Towner watched as person after person stood to share polished testimonies of faith....
In 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London published a remarkable study. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers who had spent years...
In 1921, Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolated insulin at the University of Toronto, transforming a death sentence into a manageable condition. Before their discovery,...
Every day, roughly fifty billion cells in your body receive a quiet but unmistakable instruction: it is time to die. And they obey. Biologists call...