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In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to join them after...
Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable worship songs in modern church history. "Awesome God" became an anthem sung by millions, and his catalog...
In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but dissolute, he drinks too much,...
In February 1874, English poet and hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words to *Take My Life and Let It Be*. Most of us...
In 2004, a team of researchers led by Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute made a startling discovery about how our bodies fight infection....
In 1957, astrophysicist Fred Hoyle and his colleagues published a landmark paper demonstrating something remarkable: nearly every element essential to life was forged inside the...
In 2004, immunologist Arturo Zychlinsky and his team at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin discovered something astonishing about neutrophils — the white blood cells...
In 1516, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed the Isenheim Altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Alsace, France. The monks there cared for patients suffering...
In 2007, researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute discovered a deep-sea octopus clinging to a rocky ledge nearly a mile beneath the Pacific....
In 2004, a team led by immunologist Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin discovered something remarkable happening inside the human body. When...
In 1991, a twenty-one-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds created something remarkable — an entire computer operating system he called Linux. He could have patented...
In 1874, English hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal penned the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved consecration hymns: *Take My Life and...
Princeton biologist John Tyler Bonner spent decades studying a tiny organism called Dictyostelium discoideum — a social amoeba that reveals something profound about sacrifice. When...
Every day, between fifty and seventy billion of your cells quietly die. Not from injury or disease — they choose to die. Scientists call this...
In 1874, Frances Ridley Havergal wrote the words that would become one of Christianity's most beloved hymns: *Take My Life and Let It Be*. But...
In 1997, ecologist Suzanne Simard at the University of British Columbia made a remarkable discovery. Beneath the forest floor, ancient trees are connected to younger...
In 1707, Isaac Watts sat in a small English chapel, frustrated. The congregation had just sung another dreary, plodding psalm arrangement, and Watts complained to...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, passing over the very waters where his four daughters had drowned...
In 1914, German artist Käthe Kollwitz received the news every parent dreads: her eighteen-year-old son Peter had been killed in the first weeks of World...
In 2002, three scientists — Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston — received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for uncovering one of the...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. He had trained for years, and the...
Every day, without your awareness or consent, somewhere between 50 and 70 billion of your own cells choose to die. Scientists call it *apoptosis* —...
In 1936, Jesse Owens stood on the long jump runway at the Berlin Olympics, having already fouled twice. One more foul meant elimination. That's when...
On September 30, 1972, Roberto Clemente lined a double off the wall at Three Rivers Stadium — his three-thousandth career hit. He was thirty-eight years...