It was as bad a North Atlantic storm as Captain Christopher Jones had ever seen. For several weeks, intermittent gales kicking up thirty, and occasionally fifty-foot waves, had pounded his small sailing ship. A seasoned captain, having spent half his life at sea, he...
Author and speaker Andy Andrews once asked Gordon Mote, who has been blind since birth, “If you could snap your fingers and see, would you want to be able to see or are you happy just like you are?” Mote responded, “I think I would like to see, but maybe only for a...
It began with increasing clumsiness, tripping on the stairs, and by the time Stephen Hawking went home from college for Christmas break in 1963, his parents noticed he occasionally slurred his words. The shocking diagnosis came a few months later. The twenty-one-year...
Forty miles from Lebourget Air Field in Paris, he began to see the flares. Thirty-three hours earlier, 500 people had watched the 25-year-old pilot take off from a muddy Roosevelt Field runway in New York. He was hoping to become the first pilot to make a solo...
