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In 1994, Kurt Warner was stocking shelves at a Hy-Vee grocery store in Cedar Falls, Iowa, earning five dollars and fifty cents an hour. The...
In 2011, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden made a stunning discovery. Using carbon-14 dating — the same method used to date ancient artifacts...
In 1994, Kurt Warner was cut by the Green Bay Packers before the regular season even began. With no team willing to sign him, Warner...
In 2006, Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka made a discovery that stunned the world of biology. He found that ordinary adult skin cells — fully specialized,...
In 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers who had spent years...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once captivated London was now drowning in debt, his...
By 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. A stroke had left his right arm temporarily paralyzed. His operas had flopped across London. Creditors...
In 2019, Tesla pushed an over-the-air software update to thousands of Model 3 vehicles overnight. Owners went to bed with one car and woke up...
On March 17, 1977, George Foreman shuffled into his dressing room in Puerto Rico after losing a grueling twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young. Foreman was...
By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced mounting...
In 1996, Kerri Strug stood on the mat at the Atlanta Olympics with a third-degree sprain in her left ankle. Her coach, Béla Károlyi, needed...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. A stroke had left his right side partially paralyzed. Creditors circled. London audiences had abandoned his...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean stumbles out of prison after nineteen years, hardened into something barely recognizable as human. No inn will take...
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on stage in Vienna for the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He had composed every note of...
In October 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with every intention of dying there. Years of amphetamine and barbiturate addiction had...
In 2019, Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, and Tesla owners discovered something remarkable. Overnight, while their cars sat parked in garages, Tesla pushed an...
In the year 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers who had...
In 1899, Dutch biologist Pieter de Vries made a discovery that still startles scientists. He found that inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar does not simply...
In 1464, a massive block of Carrara marble was quarried for the cathedral of Florence. Two sculptors attempted to shape it — Agostino di Duccio...
In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man undone. The composer who had once captivated all of London now faced crushing debt,...
In October 1967, Johnny Cash crawled into Nickajack Cave on the Tennessee River with every intention of dying there. Years of amphetamine addiction had cost...
In 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. His patient, Louis Washkansky, had a heart so...