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On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes....
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with catastrophic force, flattening 230 square miles of old-growth forest in minutes. Everything was buried under ash...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a medal favorite in the 400-meter semifinal. He had trained for this moment his...
In 1998, Pixar nearly lost *Toy Story 2* — the entire film. An engineer accidentally triggered a command that began deleting the movie's files from...
In January 2023, the Buffalo Bills led the Kansas City Chiefs 24-20 in the divisional playoff round. Patrick Mahomes had suffered a high ankle sprain...
In 1994, Johnny Cash was a forgotten man. Decades of addiction had ravaged his body. Nashville had moved on. The country music industry considered him...
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750, the world shrugged. His music was considered old-fashioned, overly complex, and within a generation his manuscripts gathered dust...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, it was supposed to be humanity's clearest window into the heavens. Instead, the first images...
Orthopedic surgeons have long observed a remarkable phenomenon known as Wolff's Law, first described by German anatomist Julius Wolff in 1892. When a bone fractures...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had cost him...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, determined never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had cost him...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, intending never to come out. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had stripped away...
By 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled London was now drowning in debt, abandoned by audiences who...
On the last day of 2005, Drew Brees crumpled to the turf in San Diego with a torn labrum and damaged rotator cuff in his...
In 1985, scientists Joseph Farman, Brian Gardiner, and Jonathan Shanklin published findings that stunned the world: a gaping hole had opened in the ozone layer...
When fire swept through Notre-Dame cathedral in April 2019, the world watched the spire collapse and feared the worst. But deep inside the nave, the...
In the summer of 2021, the world watched Simone Biles — the most decorated gymnast in history — walk away from the Olympic team final...
In 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed. A stroke paralyzed his right side, and doctors feared the fifty-two-year-old composer would never play again. Though he eventually...
In 1989, surgeons at the University of Chicago attempted something that had never been done before. Dr. Christoph Broelsch removed a portion of a mother's...
By the early 1990s, Johnny Cash was a man the music industry had discarded. Nashville had moved on. His record label dropped him. Decades of...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crippling debt. His operas...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the rail of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared into the water below. The captain had quietly...
In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that upended what biologists assumed about life: DNA, the molecule...
In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. He found that when a bone breaks and heals, the...