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In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a steamship bound for England. He planned to follow shortly after wrapping up business in Chicago...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for Europe. He planned to follow shortly after....
In 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Weeks earlier, he had put his wife and four daughters on...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made one of the boldest decisions in the history of science. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
When we think of great hymns, we often picture dramatic backstories — shipwrecks, deathbed conversions, narrow escapes. But one of the most beloved hymns in...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. No inn will...
Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor's failed treatment destroyed her sight permanently. She would never see a sunrise, never read a...
In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a steamship bound for England. He planned to follow soon after. Nine days later, he received...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies launch a 3,000-mile migration from Canada to a remote mountain range in Michoacán, Mexico — a forest of Oyamel fir trees...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...
In 1997, forest ecologist Dr. Suzanne Simard published a groundbreaking discovery in the journal *Nature*. Trees in a forest are not competing alone. They are...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues considered reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
In 1882, Louisa Stead took her husband and young daughter Lily to the beach for a picnic. What began as a quiet afternoon shattered in...
In 1995, physicist Eric Cornell and his colleague Carl Wieman achieved something remarkable at the University of Colorado. They cooled rubidium atoms to nearly absolute...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made one of the boldest gambles in the history of science. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
For more than a century, the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence sat unfinished. A vast octagonal opening gaped at its center, waiting...
In 1882, Louisa Stead sat on a beach with her husband and their young daughter Lily, watching the waves roll in. What began as a...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, dark water. Somewhere beneath those waves, his...
In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at the cold waters below. Days earlier, he...
Every autumn, monarch butterflies undertake one of the most remarkable navigational feats in all of nature. From milkweed fields as far north as Canada, they...
In 2011, sociologist Damon Centola at the University of Pennsylvania published a groundbreaking study on how social change actually happens. He discovered that it only...