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August 2013

August 31, 2013
In the Academy at Florence, one of the great Italian masterpieces displayed is Michelangelo’s statue,...
August 30, 2013
In the Revolutionary War, during preparations for a battle, a man in civilian clothes passed...
August 29, 2013
Interested in Egypt from childhood, Howard Carter got to travel there from his home in...
August 28, 2013
A bricklayer whose brother happened to be a gifted and famous violinist once found himself...
August 27, 2013
A look into the Bronx, New York basement of Nilda Garces reveals what might be...
August 26, 2013
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up...
August 25, 2013
An English nobleman gave his jester a wand, saying, “Keep this until you find a...
August 24, 2013
It might seem hard to excel on the job if you’re not outspoken.  But Wendy...
August 23, 2013
The ship’s chief engineer, coming down the companionway into the engine room, shouted at one...
August 22, 2013
Duchenne muscular dystrophy slowly robbed Daniel Escalona of his ability to run, walk, and move...
August 21, 2013
Three hundred years ago, a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved this sentiment...
August 20, 2013
Jim Abbott has been retired for 13 years from an improbable major-league baseball pitching career...
August 19, 2013
Preacher and writer William L. Stidger once told a story about the conductor Walter Damrosch...
August 18, 2013
Sometimes the impact of a prayer can begin with one simple stitch.  This was the...
August 17, 2013
Chinsuk Kim first picked a career as a radiology technologist in a Las Vegas hospital. ...
August 16, 2013
Hospice workers respect life while also providing comfort care at its end. Pam Greene, a...
August 15, 2013
Frederick the Great of Prussia was walking along a road on the outskirts of Berlin...
August 14, 2013
It was August 14, 1941, at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.  The Nazis were...
August 13, 2013
When Ernest was a student in the Christopher Leadership Course, he shared a story about...
August 12, 2013
Urban decay, crime, and drug dealing are just some of the problems plaguing an East...
August 11, 2013
Since 1984, 19 Women’s Care Centers have been founded throughout the United States. The purpose...
August 10, 2013
A long week away from home at a business meeting, and an intense week ahead...
August 09, 2013
On his Patheos.com blog, Timothy Dalrymple wrote an open letter to college freshmen, encouraging them...
August 08, 2013
After work, Lynn stopped at a New York City coffee shop for a relaxing cup...
August 07, 2013
Aly Raisman entered the 2012 Olympics under the radar compared to some of her fellow...
August 06, 2013
Where would any school-age child be without a backpack? They’re more than just places to...
August 05, 2013
A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in 30 seconds,...
August 04, 2013
When author Christopher West gives talks on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body...
August 03, 2013
Older generations used to be more revered for their wisdom and age, out of respect...
August 02, 2013
Seventy-one-year-old Father Tadeusz Koncewicz, a priest from Poland, was visiting his friend, parish priest Father...
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