We have heard of the place called Death Valley. Normally it is barren and forbidding, but every once and a while it explodes with color....
In 1961, during Billy Graham’s London Crusade, Ruth Graham went to Belfast to visit a former missionary she had known in China. ...
Recently the comic strip Family Circus by Bill Keane reflected the enormous difference one's attitude makes. The strip shows an ambulance going by with siren screaming. The little boy is putting his h...
For the first time in many years, an older man traveled from his rural town to the city to attend a movie. After buying his ticket, he stopped at the concession stand....
The New Book of Lists claims that the Cape of Good Hope is a misnomer. When Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias came around the southern tip of Africa, he found the sea so rough that he called it the...
…CBS released The Karen Carpenter Story. Karen died unexpectedly …of heart failure at age 32 brought on by years of self abuse from the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa. But what brought...
Rosalie Searles had a very bad Thursday. First while arguing with her husband in their car, this Unadilla, New York woman fell out the passenger's door and her husband stepped on the gas accidentally ...
Here are some actual "gems" from church bulletins: 1. Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help. 2. Thursday night Potluck Supper. Prayer and medication to follow. 3. Remember in prayer the many ...
There's a lot of potentially good-sounding advice to be gained, but not all of it rests on sound biblical verbiage....
Upon entering a little country store, the stranger noticed a sign saying "DANGER! BEWARE OF DOG!" posted on the glass door. Inside, he noticed a harmless old hound dog asleep on the floor near the cas...
The Salvation Army received an unusual gift last Christmas. A couple who wished to remain anonymous donated a wedding ring—their own—worth several thousand dollars....
It has been reported that the Emperor Caligula would write out his decrees in very small letters and post them so high that no one could read them. Still, he enjoyed punishing offenders for breaking t...
Here are a few suggestions for special gifts: a firm handshake to a shaky soul, a kind word to a lonely person......
Inventor Thomas A. Edison set himself an ambitious goal. It was to come up with a major new invention every six months, a minor invention every ten days. When he died, he had 1,093 U.S. patents and ov...
Australia is the only country in the world to have a picture of a convicted forger on its currency. ...
Carol Burnett tells a story about a time when she was a college actor and a man came up after a performance and asked what she wanted to do with her life. She said that she wanted to go to New York an...
The Ripley organization highlights the story of the unusual creature, the Nanomia Cara. It is a jellyfish, and it lives in a huge cluster with other jellyfish. Some in the colony catch the food, other...