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Good News in History, September 8
57 years ago today, the Severn Bridge was opened in the UK to span England and Wales, 140 years after it was first proposed....
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, August 14
86 years ago today, the National Scenic Trail known as the Appalachian Trail was completed by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Claimed to be the...
Narrowly Avoiding Prison by Judge’s Leniency, She Turned Her Life Around to Win Case as a Lawyer in His Courtroom
Sarah Gad's life story is one for the case books. A repeat drug offender turned criminal defense attorney, it shows among other things that...
Good News in History, July 28
130 years ago today, the Vizcaya Bridge, Spain's only UNESCO World Heritage Site of industrial heritage was completed. Spanning the two banks situated at...
Good News in History, July 26
Happy 80th Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Born in Kent, England to a teacher and hairdresser, he’s spent more than...
Tiny Baby That Fit Inside Mom’s Hand is Home Laughing After 181 Days in Hospital Not Expected to Survive
A first-time Pennsylvania mom who was told her baby “wouldn’t make it” because he was born so small, now says he is “thriving” at...
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....
Conjoined Twins Given 2% Odds of Survival Are Now Thriving and Graduating Kindergarten
Rare conjoined twins who survived surgery to separate them, despite just 2% odds of success, have now graduated kindergarten.
In her 11th week of pregnancy...
12 Famous American Waterfalls Are Looking Gorgeous on New Stamps From USPS
The US Postal Service has taken a peculiar interest in its latest commemorative stamp collection—waterfalls.
12 news stamps attempt to communicate the majesty of the...
10-year-old’s Backyard Discovery Reveals ‘Mind-blowing’ Interaction Between Plants and Insects
2 years ago, little Hugo Deans from Pennsylvania found some red-colored seeds on the ground by an ant's nest in his backyard.
Hugo was excited—he...
Good News in History, June 8
70 years ago today, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that restaurants in Washington, DC could not refuse to serve black patrons, invalidating “separate...
U.S. Is Giving Away Lighthouses for Free to Preserve Them As Historic Landmarks
A unique opportunity for a fixer-upper is coming by way of the US General Services Administration (GSA)—6 historic American lighthouses.
Going up this year via...
Good News in History, May 30
48 years ago today, the European Space Agency was founded by ten member states: Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden,...
Good News in History, May 27
694 years ago today, Ibn Khaldun, the Tunisian Arab scholar who is recognized as one of the greatest scientists of the Middle Ages, was...
Pair of Dirty Windows Purchased on Facebook Are Set to Sell for $200,000
A pair of dirty windows bought on Facebook during a church demolition is set to sell for $225,000.
Antiques hunter Paul Brown from Pennsylvania paid...
Good News in History, May 18
On this day 975 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating...
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....
Ex-Racehorse Destined for Kill Pen Rescued by Woman Who Helped Raise Her–WATCH
Meaghan Martin has seen a lot of long faces in her years as a horse trainer, and it was this history that allowed her...
Good News in History, April 26
220 years ago in the afternoon, thousands of small meteorite fragments rained down from the sky over L'Aigle, France. Upon hearing of this event,...