"He's a little horse with a big heart." Jockey Javier Castellano after winning the Kentucky Derby with Mage – a horse with only one previous win and 15-1 odds ahead of the race. He ran right into the history books as an unexpected victor in one of
From one of the largest bank collapses in U.S. history, to a notable White House visit, the first week of May brings with it a flurry of history-making news (no doubt impacted by this historic moment 30 years ago). 👇🏼
"I don't know anything about the world.” Spanish athlete Beatriz Flamini who lived in a cave for more than 500 days as part of a project studying the impacts of isolation. The mountaineer wasn’t quite ready to come out of the cave when the experiment was
“I'll stop once my vision gets blurry." 106-year-old Apo Whang-Od, the oldest person to ever appear on the cover of Vogue in its 131-year history. Whang-Od is featured for her hand-tapping tattoos, a thousand-year-old indigenous Filipino practice called “batok." 🗓 THE WEEK AHEAD Monday: The annual White
A welfare check between two icons: Lightning striking One World Trade Center in New York City over the weekend. 📷: Max Guliani. According to statistics this happens roughly 38 times a year to the tallest building in the U.S. Some interpreted it as a foreshadowing of one of our big
“With God in the mix, we will recover.” Wayne Williams, who lives in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. A deadly tornado struck the rural town of about 2,000 people this weekend. Despite the destruction, some spent their Sunday morning gathering with one another on the front steps of the still-standing Rolling
“Next stop is peak bloom!” The National Park Service announced the beautiful cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. are one step away from reaching peak bloom. The blossoms are in stage 5, which means the flowers should be opening any day now. 🗓 THE WEEK AHEAD Monday: The first day of