Saint Paisios, also known as Elder Paisios of Mount Athos, died in 1994 and was canonized (recognized as a saint) in 2015. That makes him not only one of the most recent figures to be granted sainthood by the Orthodox Christian Church, but also one of the fastest to receive sainthood after death. So, what […]
There’s tough – and then there’s David Goggins. Running an ultramarathon is tough. Goggins ran his first one without even training, completing the last 30 miles of the 100-mile race with all of the metatarsal bones in both feet broken. Going through Navy SEAL Hell Week is tough. Goggins did it three times, with a […]
With over 1,100 career wins, Mike Krzyzewski – or Coach K, for short – is the winningest coach in college basketball history. In fact, no other men’s coach has even cracked 1,000. Most of those wins came with Duke, where Coach K has been the head coach since 1980. In that time, he’s also led […]
At age 13, Magnus Carlsen became the youngest ever chess Grandmaster. By the time he was 19, he was also the youngest player to be ranked #1 in the world. A few years later, he won his first world championship, and in 2014, he obtained the FIDE rank of 2882. Why is that ranking significant? […]
Ludwig van Beethoven, the man and composer, lived from 1770 to 1827 – but his music has carried on through the centuries. Nearly two hundred years after his death, he remains one of the most influential and popular musicians of all-time. Almost all of us are familiar with his most famous works, from “Ode to […]
