When we built Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam), it was the largest in the world. As is common on such projects, there were the inevitable accidents and some workmen lost their lives. When the dam was co...
Earl Allen told the story of how King Ptolemy decided to commission the building of a huge lighthouse. He ordered Sostratus to construct it. The lighthouse was called “The Pharos” Ptolemy required t...
It has been centuries since the world saw a new illuminated Bible; that is, a Bible copied by hand and decorated with pictures and colorful symbols. But there is such a manuscript now in progress. It ...
Modern Jews call the Day of Atonement "Yom Kippur" and regard it as the holiest day on their calendar. On Rosh Hashanah, it is believed that God writes a "book" of each person's actions during the pas...
In a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, is a grave on which were placed huge slabs of granite and marble cemented together and fastened with heavy steel clasps. It belongs to a woman who did not believe in...
The story of the explorers who are credited with first reaching the North Pole personifies determination....