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John Newton drafted his own epitaph. The aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in London chose words of unflinching honesty: "John Newton, Clerk, once an...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, wrapping copper wire around opposite sides of an...
In 1764, John Newton was ordained as an Anglican curate and assigned to the small parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Olney,...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in a white execution shroud on the Semyonovsky Parade Ground in St. Petersburg, waiting to die. He...
On January 31, 1865, the United States House of Representatives voted on the Thirteenth Amendment for the second time. The measure had failed the previous...
In a cramped workshop on Mainz's Quintinsstraße, sometime around 1455, Johannes Gutenberg lifted a freshly printed sheet from his wooden press and held it to...
In 1455, in a workshop in Mainz, Germany, Johannes Gutenberg pulled the first finished sheets of a Latin Bible from his wooden press. Each page...
In 1939, Oskar Schindler arrived in Kraków as an opportunist. A member of the Nazi Party, the German industrialist acquired a seized enamelware factory and...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...
In the autumn of 1944, as the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp prepared to send its remaining prisoners to Auschwitz, a German industrialist sat at his desk...
In 1939, Oskar Schindler arrived in Kraków, Poland, as a card-carrying Nazi Party member looking to get rich off the war. He acquired an enamelware...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street in London, hunched over a simple iron...
In the parish church of Olney, Buckinghamshire, on New Year's Day 1773, curate John Newton introduced a new hymn to his congregation. The words carried...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, wearing a white execution shirt. He and...
In the winter of 1454, inside a workshop on Mainz's Christophstraße, Johannes Gutenberg pressed inked metal type against a sheet of dampened vellum. Letter by...
On January 31, 1865, the floor of the United States House of Representatives erupted. After months of intense lobbying by President Abraham Lincoln and his...
On December 22, 1849, twenty-eight-year-old Fyodor Dostoevsky stood in the bitter cold of Semyonov Place in St. Petersburg, dressed in a white execution shroud. He...