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The Woman Who Went to Hell to Save 2,500 Children
She accepted being crushed to death so that 2,500 children could live.The Gestapo broke her legs.They crushed her feet.They promised death.And yet,she didn't utter a single name.Thanks to that silence,...
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Died for 80 Minutes Under the Ice – And Returned Without Brain Damage
Faces & Factshe was dead for 80 minutes… and then came back with no permanent brain damage.May 20, 1999 — near Narvik, in northern Norway.Twenty-nine-year-old medical student Anna Bågenholm was...
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A Decision Made in Silence Saved 7,200 Lives
Georg Duckwitz sat alone in his Copenhagen office, staring at orders that made his blood run cold.In 72 hours, Nazi forces will sweep through Denmark. Every Jewish family will be...
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Survival is a choice
Alison Botha was 27 years old when she pulled into her apartment parking lot after a quiet evening with friends. It was an ordinary night. The kind no one remembers.Until...
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The Woman Was Fired at Age 58, and the Technology She Brought to Her Saves Humanity
A young Hungarian scientist, her husband, and their two-year-old daughter board a plane to America. Hidden inside the child’s teddy bear is £900, everything they own, smuggled out of communist...
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The Forgotten Man, and 3,600 Lives Resurrected
He witnessed desperate families pleading for their lives at the Swiss border. His government ordered them sent back to their deaths. But he chose to become a criminal and save...
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The Cloak of Love
At sixteen, Mary hid her three-month-old sister under her coat on the Orphan Train bound for Kansas on July 15, 1902.The orphanage had a strict rule: infants and teenagers were...
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She Opened the Doors to College for Millions of Women: The Story of the Founder of Smith College.
Sophia Smith sat in the farmhouse where she'd lived her entire sixty-four years, suddenly facing a question no woman of her generation had the power to ask:What do I do...
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The Woman Who Redefined Power: From a Controlled Actress to a Global Icon of Freedom. Hollywood, 1950.
Howard Hughes saw a photograph of a 23-year-old Italian actress named Gina Lollobrigida and decided he wanted her. Not just for films. For himself.Hughes was 45 years old, one of...
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"She's a dancer, not a patient."
Gillian was only seven years old when the world decided there was something fundamentally wrong with her.At school, she could never stay still. She fidgeted, she daydreamed, she lost herself...
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How a Silly Idea Changed Everything.
July 12, 2005.Kyle MacDonald sat at his desk in Montreal, bored, unemployed, staring at a small red paperclip.He was 26 years old. No job. No money. No house.Just a paperclip.And...