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History & Heroes
The election that turned 15,000 voters into 234,000 ballots
In 1927, Liberia staged a presidential election that would become one of history’s most unbelievable political episodes. On the surface,…
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History & Heroes
How a broken shark helped create the summer blockbuster
In the spring of 1974, a twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg stood on a boat off the coast of Massachusetts and looked…
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Human Stories
The teacher who kept grading from a hospital bed
Alejandro Navarro was the kind of teacher whose commitment did not stop when life turned difficult. Born on March 20,…
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Human Stories
Renee Montgomery turned away from the court and into the boardroom
In 2020, Renee Montgomery made a choice almost no professional athlete makes by design: she stepped away from the best…
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History & Heroes
The day Rick Hansen refused to let one accident define him
On June 27, 1973, Rick Hansen was a fifteen-year-old with the kind of future that seemed to open in every…
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Celebrities & Music
How Pimp C helped turn Southern hip-hop into a movement
Before the platinum records and the packed arenas, Chad Butler was just a kid in a small Texas town, growing…
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History & Heroes
The soldier who lost his legs and found a new purpose
On a quiet night in Baghdad in May 2007, Colonel Gregory Gadson was riding back from a memorial service for…
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HOME
How Rotherham turned roadside grass into a river of flowers
In 2013, a stretch of road in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, began to change in a way that was both practical…
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CREATIVE
The man who built worlds from New York’s forgotten objects
He was born in a small town north of New York City, and he would die seventy years later in…
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NEWS
A mother confessed to murder. A jury in Brazil still acquitted her
For a year, Erica sat in a jail cell in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, carrying a confession that seemed, on its…
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