Every day between 1925 and 1935, a dog named Hachiko turned Tokyo’s Shibuya Station into the setting of one of the most touching true stories of loyalty ever told. For nearly a […]
A Turning Point in 1965 Sicily In 1965, in the Sicilian town of Alcamo, Italy, a young woman named Franca Viola was abducted and raped for a week. Yet, instead of yielding […]
The Young Woman Who Changed the World’s View of Chimps, and of Ourselves On 14 July 1960, a 26-year-old English woman stepped off a boat at Gombe Stream Game Reserve, Tanzania, to […]
It was just another ordinary morning at Starbucks—or so I thought. I had found a quiet corner, laptop open, coffee steaming beside me, and the comforting hum of background chatter filling the […]
This morning, as I waited behind my daughter’s school bus, something extraordinary unfolded right in front of me—something so genuine and pure that I couldn’t stop thinking about it all day. My […]
On Wednesday morning, 12-year-old Jordan faced a problem no child should have to worry about: he had no way to get to school. Jordan usually hops in the car with his mom, […]
Chasing the Sun: The Early Life of Mária Telkes Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1900, Mária Telkes dedicated her life to capturing the power of the sun. Known as “The Sun Queen,” […]
Aberdeen Woman Breaks Silence on Childhood Abuse A woman from Aberdeen, Scotland, has spoken publicly about being repeatedly raped by her father as a child.Now 33, Nikki Houston has waived her right […]
A Dark Era of Public Spectacle From the 1840s through the 1940s, so-called “freak shows” were a popular form of entertainment across the Western world. They were considered a “normal staple of […]
A Miraculous Rescue in the Cold A German Shepherd named Freyja is being hailed as a hero after finding a missing 2-year-old girl who wandered away from her home in Dorchester, New […]