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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 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal as the favorite. He had trained for years, overcome multiple...
In 1892, German anatomist Julius Wolff published a law that still bears his name. Wolff's Law states that bone adapts to the stress placed upon...
In February 1949, Ben Hogan was the best golfer in the world. He had already won three major championships. Then a Greyhound bus slammed head-on...
In February 1949, Ben Hogan's car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. He threw himself across his wife Valerie to...
In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs, leveling two hundred thirty square miles of forest into a moonscape...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, expectations soared. Here was a $1.5 billion instrument designed to peer into the deepest reaches...
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...
When NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, the world waited for its first images of deep space. What came back was devastating...
On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs. Two hundred thirty square miles of old-growth forest were...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced crushing debt, failing health,...
In 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to die. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had stripped away nearly everything —...
In 2015, biochemist Aziz Sancar shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for revealing something remarkable about the human body: we are constantly breaking and constantly...
Every day, your DNA sustains tens of thousands of errors — breaks, mutations, damage from ultraviolet light and the simple wear of living. By all...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the disagreeable boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes up transformed into...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy thoughts in his heart...