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City Installs Plaques That Allow Blind People to ‘See’ the Art Murals Decorating the Streets
As a means of making art more inclusive and available to everyone, this city has just installed tactile plaques that allow blind people to...
Good Samaritan Gives Shoes to Man Crawling on Scorching Street
This good Samaritan is a prime example of Biblical kindness.
David Lee Witherspoon Jr. was leaving his volunteer shift at a food pantry in Phoenix,...
6 Reasons to Be Happy the New Pokemon App is Taking Over the Streets
Since the release of Pokémon GO for smartphones Thursday, the augmented reality game, which uses GPS to display characters roaming in your real world,...
East German Officer Who Opened Berlin Wall Wept Moments Later
Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall that divided East and West Germany for 28 years.
The East German lieutenant colonel...
Main Street Community Banks Going Strong
Far from the carnage on Wall Street, thousands of banks in the U.S. are still going strong, and still making loans on Main...
Greek Cypriots Tear Down Wall Dividing City
Greek Cypriots demolished a wall Friday along the boundary that for decades has split Europe's last divided capital. The surprise demolition work began...
Good News in History, March 8
45 years ago today, the Philips electronics company demonstrated the first CD, unveiling the single-sided compact disc that was impervious to scratches, dust, and...
Good News in History, February 17
161 years ago today, the businessman and activist Henry Dunant, a Swiss public health society commissioner Théodore Maunoir, lawyer and civic leader Gustave Moynier, field...
A New Drinking Game Is Sweeping Britain: Sending Pints to Strangers Across the Nation
A new drinking game is sweeping the British nation—it involves losing money and no drinking.
If that sounds farfetched, it's because the game consists of...
Mom Channeled Her Terminal Cancer into Debt Relief Fundraiser–Wiping Out $65 Million in Medical Debt
A wife and mother turned her last month on Earth into a fundraiser to wipe out medical debt burdens of families and individuals in...
Good News in History, November 15
6 years ago, Pakistani archeologists revealed to the world the finished excavations of the Bhamala Stupa, one of the oldest in the world, and...
Good News in History September 17
480 years ago today, the first book in the Finnish language was published. Called The Abckiria, or the "ABC Book" it taught Finnish peasants...
Good News in History September 15
105 years ago today. Forbes Magazine was founded by Scottish-American financial columnist, B. C. Forbes. After being passed down the family for three generations,...
Good News in History, July 8
137 years ago today, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, and Reverends Benjamin Waugh and Edward Rudolph founded the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children....
Reforestation is Difficult: But Local Farmers of NGO Green Again Madagascar Are on Top of It
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Good News in History, May 14
50 years ago today, Skylab was launched into orbit, the first and only space station to be entirely built and funded by the US....
Tree Growing Nonprofit is Sprouting Entrepreneurs With Unique Training and Lots of Trees for Madagascar
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Good News in History, December 20
20 years ago today, Gangs of New York premiered in theaters. Martin Scorsese's colorful and gritty depiction of gangland violence among the poor immigrant residents of...
Historians Stunned: Uzbekistan Nomads Supplied a Third of the Bronze Used Across Ancient Mediterranean
Cutting edge analysis of tin isotopes has shown that tiny tribes of pastoral nomads from modern-day Uzbekistan supplied a third of all the precious...
Former Debt Collectors Have Wiped Away $6.7 Billion of Medical Debt for Millions of Americans
A dynamic duo from Wall Street has just passed a huge milestone in charitable history, completely paying off the medical debt for some 3.6...