Category: Unsung Heroes
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The Somali Dentist Who Gave Back
Within months, Dr. Adan poured all his savings — about $2,400 — into buying a van, with some additional funding coming from a campaign he ran urging university students to donate $1 to save a life.And so began Aamin Ambulance: the first and still the only free ambulance service operating in the capital of over…
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The Man Who Saved the World
On 27 October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of 11 United States Navy destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS Randolph located the diesel-powered, nuclear-armed Foxtrot-class submarine B-59 near Cuba. Despite being in international waters, the United States Navy started dropping signaling depth charges, explosives intended to force the submarine to come to…
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The Men Who Fed the World
“When wheat is ripening properly, when the wind is blowing across the field, you can hear the beards of the wheat rubbing together. They sound like the pine needles in a forest. It is a sweet, whispering music that once you hear, you never forget.” About half the world’s population goes to bed every night…
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The Man Who Prevented Nuclear War
On the night of Sept. 26, 1983, in a period of Cold War tension, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel on duty at a missile attack early-warning center south of Moscow, was jolted by an alarm of a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile attack on the Soviet Union. The alarm on that September night was the result…
Unsung Heros 