According to the Ripley people, there is a region in Russia where slapping people was once a sport. In what is probably a record, two men in 1931 slapped each other continuously for thirty hours. Whil...
Here is a bad example being set by Wimbledon tennis champ Boris Becker. He told the West German Magazine Sports that if he thought an opponent was beating him by taking steroids, he would take them to...
The Toyota television commercial is interesting. It shows someone in a sport utility vehicle heading for the beach or the slopes, driving through the city on a Tuesday. An onlooker is amazed. It is Tu...
Basketball players dress simply: shoes, shirts, shorts, and sweatbands. But life is not so simple for football players – and what about ice hockey players? Besides clothes, the athletes in these two s...
At a zoo in Taipei in Taiwan, a 46-year old man jumped into a den of lions and cried out, "Jesus will save you." According to press reports, he also taunted the lions, "Come bite me." One lion decided...
According to The Executive Speechwriter Newsletter (vol. 12, no. 3), "Desire kept young W. Clement Stone on Chicago's street corners selling newspapers. Desire later made him one of the wealthiest peo...
According to recent news reports, in Greensboro, N.C., an 11-year-old boy discovered a purse with $2,000 inside. The boy suspected it was stolen and turned it in to police. The boy, Edward Myers, was ...
Through the courtesy of MovieMinistry.com, we'll be frequently sharing illustrations from films. Here's one from the new movie, Secondhand Lions. The Big Idea: You can't reach out to people you don't...