Irena Sendler
Irena Sendler was born in Poland in 1910, in Otwock a town some 15 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, a doctor whose …
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Irena Sendler was born in Poland in 1910, in Otwock a town some 15 miles southeast of Warsaw. Her father, Stanislaw Krzyzanowski, a doctor whose …
A man says he was “stunned” to look out to sea from a village in Cornwall, in southwest England, and see a giant ship seemingly …
Tissues taken from cancer victim Henrietta Lacks in 1951 have made big profits for the drug companies, but today her surviving children can’t afford health …
By combining epidemiology, mathematical modeling, and historical investigation, researchers in Geneva, Switzerland, and France confirm Jeanne Calment’s exceptional longevity, invalidating the conspiracy theories surrounding her. …
Old pictures and videos of Paul Karason, popularly known as the Blue Man or Papa Smurf have resurfaced on the internet a decade after he …
Accused of killing two white girls in South Carolina, George Stinney Jr was tried and electrocuted in just 83 days. As a judge ponders whether …
A Cubic Millimeter of Brain: The Most Detailed Neural Map Ever Created In a tiny corner of the human brain—smaller than the head of a …
March 5, 2000 San Lorenzo Texmelúcan, Oaxaca, Mexico Population: 200. Nearest hospital: 80 kilometers of unpaved mountain road. Inés Ramírez Pérez was 40 years …
On July 17, 1955, swimmers at the Desert Inn pool in Las Vegas witnessed a surreal spectacle as a mushroom cloud from a nuclear test, …
It started with cruelty. In the summer of 2019, Melissa Blake—a writer, blogger, and disability activist from Illinois—published an essay criticizing then-President Donald Trump. The …