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In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal carrying the weight of years of sacrifice — four surgeries,...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, dark water. Days earlier, his wife Anna...
In 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti reluctantly accepted Pope Julius II's commission to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For four years, he stood on scaffolding...
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 1914, the German artist Kathe Kollwitz lost her youngest son Peter in the fields of Flanders. He was eighteen years old and had volunteered...
In 1779, John Newton sat at his desk composing a hymn for his congregation in Olney, England. But the words he penned carried the weight...
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 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...
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...
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 1707, Isaac Watts sat in a small English chapel, frustrated. The congregation had just sung another dreary, plodding psalm arrangement, and Watts complained to...
Every day, between fifty and seventy billion of your cells quietly die. Not from injury or disease — they choose to die. Scientists call this...
Princeton biologist John Tyler Bonner spent decades studying a tiny organism called Dictyostelium discoideum — a social amoeba that reveals something profound about sacrifice. When...
Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable worship songs in modern Christianity. "Awesome God" filled arenas and sold millions of albums through the 1990s....
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 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 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, a team of researchers led by Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute made a startling discovery about how our bodies fight infection....
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,...
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...
In the early 1990s, Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable worship songs in modern Christianity — *Awesome God*. It was sung in megachurches...
In 1499, a twenty-four-year-old Michelangelo unveiled his *Pietà* in Rome — a sculpture so breathtaking that onlookers refused to believe someone so young had carved...
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...