A doctor decided to retire after treating cancer patients for nearly thirty years.

When we think about New Year’s resolutions, what probably comes to mind is a list of lofty ambitions we rarely achieve (80 percent of New Year’s resolutions are already abandoned by mid-February).

Scientists studied the resilience of sixteen societies worldwide, including the Yukon and Australian Outback.

During a raging wildfire, a forest ranger saved a bear cub. At a recovery site safely away from those still fighting the inferno, he placed the rescued animal on the ground.

“What sweeter music can we bring/ Than a carol for to sing/ The birth of this our heavenly King?” The lines of this seventeenth-century poem “What Sweeter Music” by Robert Herrick were reimagined by modern-day choral composer John Rutter to become an Advent season favorite.

In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant was stopped for recklessly driving his carriage through Washington DC.