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Good News in History, July 8
Happy 80th Birthday to Jeffery Tambor, famous for staring in 4 seasons as the Bluth Family patriarch on Fox/Netflix's Arrested Development, which earned him 3...
Good News in History, June 23
137 years ago today, The Rocky Mountains Park Act passed Canadian parliament, establishing Banff National Park, the nation's largest and most famous park. It...
Good News in History, June 22
86 years ago today, Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling in a re-match of perhaps the most famous fight series in history. It completely...
Widow on Her First Holiday Without Husband Makes A Lifelong Group of Friends
Trudy Veenstar never doubted the possibility of having a life beyond the end of a long marriage after her dearest partner passed away, she...
Thar’ Be a Kraken! First Video Footage of a Possible Colossal Squid in its Own Habitat Captured
Last year, a group of scientists attempting to capture footage of a colossal squid, the largest invertebrate on Earth, in its natural habitat may...
Good News in History, June 14
98 years ago today, sumptuous singer Nat King Cole recorded The Christmas Song, written by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, for the first time. It is...
Good News in History, May 29
259 years ago today, former Virginia governor and revolutionary Patrick Henry was not only born, but used his 29th birthday as an occasion to...
Good News in History, May 28
92 years ago today, one of Europe's greatest landscape engineering projects, the Afsuiltdijk, was completed in the Netherlands, proving that newly-mechanized Man could tame...
Good News in History, May 18
On this day 976 years ago, the astronomy and mathematician of the Seljuk Dynasty of Persia, Omar Khayyam, was born. Most famous for calculating...
Queensland Declared Drought Free for First Time in Decade: Colors Have Blossomed Out of the Brown
Incredible rains in Australia's Queensland have turned the typical red of the outback soil into lush green terrain crisscrossed by swollen rivers, ending a...
Locals Finally Save ‘the Yosemite of South America’ After Decade Long Battle with Industrialist Who Owned it
A wonderful story comes to us now from Patagonia where a valley of towering granite cliffs and rare species was saved from development by...
Good News in History, May 12
565 years ago today, Jodhpur, the "Sun City," the "Blue City," was founded amid the stark lands of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan, India....
Good News in History, May 4
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...
Paris Will Soon Host the World’s Largest Picnic on the Champs-Élysées
Are you in Paris in late May? Well make sure you stay around for Le Grand Pique Nique, or for those of you who chose...
Good News in History, May 2
60 years ago today, Shishapangma was summited for the first time as the last of Mother Earth's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters to be...
Sighting of Many Blue Whales Around the Seychelles is First in Decades – ‘Phenomenal’
The Seychelles has become a major tourist destination for beachgoing and scuba diving, but it's not only humans that are beginning to flock to...
Welcome to ’Gnome Island’ a Remote Scottish Outcrop Adorned With Mysterious Garden Ornaments – LOOK
A remote outcrop in Scotland is covered with garden gnomes but nobody knows exactly how they got there.
The gnomes beam their mischief from the...
First High-Speed Rail Line in US Breaks Ground: Brightline Vegas to LA at 200 mph to Save Thousands in Emissions
Last week, Dept. of Transportation officials celebrated the groundbreaking of America's first high-speed rail line between LA and Las Vegas.
The Brightline West will travel...
Your Weekly Horoscope – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Destructive Gold Miners Work Overtime to Restore Thousands of Acres of Amazon Rainforest
In the Madre de Dios region of southern Peru, small, artisanal gold mines and the miners that work them have become a source of...