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A four-year-old boy sat on the throne of a crumbling empire. His father had just died. And the most powerful ruler on the subcontinent wanted his...
Most people spend their fifties winding down. Amelia Edwards spent hers helping to invent a science. By the time she turned her full attention to ancient...
For sixty years, Agnes Zhelesnik did what she was told. Then, at eighty-one, she walked into a school, asked for a job, and became the oldest...
For most of a century, the people on her street were certain she had nothing. Mary Elinor Sauerwein was born on January 10, 1914, and her...
She could hold a grown man over her head in each hand. Not a trick. Not a stooge. A real man, hoisted skyward while the audience...
She was sixteen years old, and she was done waiting. Not done complaining. The adults had done plenty of that. Done waiting for someone older, someone...
In the summer of 1974, a young woman sat in a North Carolina jail cell with no lawyer at her side, no allies in the building,...
In 1970, one of the biggest stars at Motown wanted to release a song that sounded nothing like the music that had made him famous. It...
On January 26, 1944, in a Birmingham, Alabama, neighborhood where houses had been bombed often enough that residents called it Dynamite Hill, a schoolteacher’s daughter was...
There’s a grocery store in Nashville where no one pays at checkout. And no one hands you a pre-packed box of someone else’s leftovers, either. You...