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Good News in History, January 27
210 years ago today, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was born in Paris. As an architect, his fame blossomed from his work restoring dozens of France's most...
Good News in History, January 26
100 years ago today, the first ever Olympic gold medal was won in a Winter sport. American speed skater Charles Jewtraw (right) won the...
Good News in History, January 21
89 years ago today, The Wilderness Society was formed by an "organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of...
Good News in History, January 13
239 years ago today, The Times of London published its first ever broadsheet. Originally founded as The Daily Universal Register, The Times used contributions from...
Good News in History, December 28
50 years ago today, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn published The Gulag Archipelago, a literary investigation of the prison-labor camp system in the Soviet Union between 1918...
Good News in History, December 10
199 years ago today, the Reverend Minister George MacDonald was born in Aberdeenshire. A pious and valued member of his community, MacDonald achieved a...
Good News in History, November 4
286 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the oldest...
Spy Satellite Photos Reveal Hundreds of Long-Lost Roman Forts, Challenging Decades-Old Theory
Declassified photos captured by United States spy satellites launched during the Cold War have revealed an archaeological treasure trove: hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era...
Native Wildlife Flourishing Again After Another Caribbean Island Banishes Invading Rodents
A tiny uninhabited island in the Caribbean waters of the territory of Anguilla was almost completely empty but for mice, but has recently been...
Good News in History, October 11
48 years ago today, Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host. The seminal comedy television program in American history, SNL has...
Good News in History, October 10
60 years ago today, the second, and often considered best film starring James Bond, was released as From Russia With Love. In the film, Bond,...
Good News in History, October 6
112 years ago today, Beatrix de Rijk became the first female licensed Dutch aircraft pilot. This pioneering aviator was born in Surabaya, modern-day Indonesia...
3 Cooks in Prison Honed Creativity with Drab Ingredients–Now Out, Award-Winning Chef And Businessmen
"There are geniuses in there," said 2-time James Beard Award winner, Keith Corbin, referring to incarcerated men and their ability to cook with the...
Good News in History, October 1
162 years ago today, the illustrious Mrs. Beeton published her Book of Household Management, a tome with everything to know about the running of a...
Good News in History September 29
142 years ago today, Ludwig von Mises, the most influential economist of the 20th century was born in Lemberg. Today, Mises is remembered not...
Good News in History September 22
19 years ago today, J.J. Abrams's brilliant science-fiction drama Lost debuted on ABC. Running from 2004 to 2010, the show charted a course over six...
Good News in History September 12
92 years ago today, the English actor Sir Ian Holm was born. He became a successful actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company before launching...
Good News in History, September 11
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9)...
Good News in History, September 5
34 years ago today, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO) produced the first internationally binding treaty protecting the rights of such peoples to...
Good News in History, July 24
48 years ago today, Giorgio Armani and Sergio Galeotti founded Giorgio Armani S.p.A (joint stock company) in Milan, Italy. Armani had no education in...