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This Sixth-Grader Brings Joy to Seniors One Wish At a Time
Eleven-year-old Ruby Kate Chitsey loves asking that question, but it’s not a game she plays at recess. She asks it at nursing homes in the Harrison, Arkansas, area, where she lives. Even more amazing,...
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After a Car Went Up in Flames Outside His Home, This Man Climbed in To Save...
The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud he assumed it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he got up to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most...
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My Grandfather Left the Structure of His Old House to Rot in a Field. Here’s...
In 1963, at age 65, my grandfather, Erwin, decided to tackle a crazy project: He wanted to build a new house. He wasn’t quite sure what to do with the old house. It seemed a waste to demolish it, but...
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Military Dogs Struggle Just as Much as Humans When They Return Home From War
It was late—an indistinguishable, bleary-eyed hour. In front of me was a large dog, snapping his jaws so hard that his teeth gave a loud clack with each bark. His eyes were locked on me, desperate for...
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The Secret Changes to Princess Diana’s Will…Against Her Wishes
Princess Diana should have led a storybook life: At age 20, she married Prince Charles and went on to have two handsome sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, whom she loved dearly. But then her...
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13 Titanic Mysteries That May Never Be Solved
Was it even the Titanic? Everyone agrees that a luxury liner set sail on April 10, 1912, and sank five days later, taking the lives of around 1,500 of the 2,223 aboard. But that’s pretty much where the...
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12 Questions People Still Have About 9/11
How did the towers collapse so quickly? The theory: Engineers designed the Twin Towers to withstand the impact of a commercial jet airplane. Yet, both towers collapsed within two hours of being hit....
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Twists of Fate That Saved These People’s Lives on 9/11
Her mom’s persistence saved her life For Holly Winter, September 11, 2001, was going to be the day of a blissful reunion for her and her college friends—but her own mother’s intuition saved her....
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I Was a First Responder at 9/11—Why I’m Telling My Story 18 Years Later
The day it all began On the morning of September 11, 2001, Tom Frey reported to duty as a detective for the New York City Police Department. Like many on that fateful morning, he never imagined it...
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12 Spooky Ouija Board Stories That Will Give You Chills
Justin, 32, New Jersey Justin played with an Ouija board one day with several of his friends. They asked questions, but instead of the planchette moving to certain letters, it began to move in a...
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When a Man Made Fun of His Seatmate’s Weight, This Stranger Stepped In
Soon after Savannah Phillips got buckled into her window seat on a United Airlines flight from Oklahoma to Illinois this past May, she glanced over at her seatmate. He was in his 60s, wore bright...
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25 Creepy Photos That Will Give You the Chills
A quiet country home? What looks like a lovely country home in upstate New York is actually one of 42 buildings that made up the Trudeau Sanitorium for people with tuberculosis (before the advent of...
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22 Incredible Things People Have Done to Help Out Their Neighbors
Making sure a preschooler in isolation doesn’t feel isolated Quinn Waters has seen a lot of tough things in his short three years of life. So when the preschooler was put in isolation in his home as...
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15 Ordinary People Who Changed History
Rosa Parks: Wouldn’t give up her seat Tired from a full day’s work, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955 and forever became one of the inspirational people who changed the world....
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This Artist Brought Beauty Back to a Community Destroyed by a Wildfire
It was America’s deadliest wildfire in at least 100 years and the most destructive in California history. The Camp Fire started at 6:33 a.m. on November 8, 2018, touched off by faulty electrical...
View ArticleAfter a Hiker Injured Her Knee, Strangers Took Turns Carrying Her Down the...
Colorado’s grays peak rises 14,278 feet above sea level, high enough that trees can’t grow toward the top, though there are plenty of shrubs, rocks, and boulders. It was in this unforgiving terrain...
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This Hiker Saved Another from Dying on a Mountain. A Few Years Later, Her...
Pam Bales left the firm pavement of Base Road and stepped onto snow-covered Jewell Trail. She planned a six-hour loop hike through New Hampshire’s Mount Washington State Park. She had packed for...
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The Contest That Changed My Life Forever
I paid off my student loans thanks to winning a trivia contest In 2002, Saurabh Jindal was a recent college graduate and so broke he couldn’t even pay his graduation fees. Then he decided to enter a...
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After Getting into a Serious Car Accident, This Woman Never Thought She Would...
The phone rings. I wait for the answering machine to get it, but for some reason, it’s not picking up. I exhale, annoyed because I know the call is either going to be for my wife, Susan (she’s the...
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13 Animal Adoptions That Will Melt Your Heart
The pooch that’s a bodyguard When a baby orphaned monkey was severely bullied by other monkeys at a zoo in China, a kindhearted dog named Sai Hu came to his rescue. Whenever the little monkey senses he...
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