Great teachers have the power to create vivid memories from our youth that we carry with us into adulthood. But one middle school teacher in Montclair, New Jersey, has been using a memory from his own childhood to share an important lesson about empathy and acceptance. When Daniel Gill was 9 and living in New […]
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While it’s often said that not all heroes wear capes, a few in the vicinity of the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England, do wear scuba tanks, as Emma Lyon can attest. On May 7, Lyon was attending a regatta and had been cheering on a local race participant with such enthusiasm that the ring
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Frances Connolly can’t get enough of giving. The 55-year-old in Hartlepool, England, won 115 million pounds (about $144 million in USD at the time) in the lottery in 2019, and she’s already given over half of it away to friends, family, and charities. Connolly has set up two organizations in the years since her and
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The perfect dress can make a bride feel like royalty, but with the average gown costing $1,800 many women can’t afford the dress of their dreams. Newlywed Gwendolyn Stulgis took note of this and donated her wedding dress so someone else could feel as beautiful as she did — starting a movement that has other
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