First Black American to Win National Spelling Bee Takes Trophy After Just 2 Years’ Practice
E-X-T-R-A-O-R-D-I-N-A-R-Y spells extraordinary, and when you look it up in the dictionary don’t be surprised if you see a picture of Zaila Avant-garde...
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Irish Musicians Saving Oral History By Recording Elders Singing Old Campfire Songs
A small collective of intrepid and inquisitive young Irish musicians have taken it upon themselves to rescue a tradition of song when perhaps no-one e...
Volunteers in India Do it Again–Planting 250 Million Saplings in Single Day and Seeing 80% Survival Rate
In just a single day, Indians have planted an impressive quarter-billion tree saplings. Whereas mass tree planting operations around the globe are rec...
Artwork Attributed to Picasso Discovered in Maine Closet After Half a Century
While it sounds like the height of absurdity to say, one could never imagine how often it happens that paintings by art’s great masters are found in p...
Redefining ‘Rich’ and Reorienting Life Towards Your Own—Not Others’—True North
The Lesson: From the hearth and home, to farm and family, to business and betterment, human beings can pick up and accumulate concepts—sometimes very...
Good News in History, July 12
Happy 50th Birthday to former champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. The California US champion, and two-time World champion, became the first Asian...
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