Several years ago, migratory birds in the U. S. were tagged on the foot by the Department of the Interior with metal strips reading, “Wash. Biol. Surv” for Washington Biological Survey…

In November of 1975, 75 convicted felons began digging a secret tunnel underneath a prison wall in Saltillo, Mexico. This tunnel was designed to bring them up on the other side so they could escape and live as free men…

One dark, rainy night many years ago a salesman had a flat tire on a lonely country road. He got out to change the tire, but quickly discovered he didn’t have a lug wrench. So, he saw a nearby farmhouse and set out on foot for help…

During the many months of modeling and molding it took to create her 9-foot, 800-pound Babe Ruth in bronze, artist Susan Luery met countless experts and aficionados…

There’s a courthouse in Ohio that stands in a very unique location. Raindrops that fall on the north side of the building go into Lake Ontario and the Gulf of St. Lawrence….

In the 1960s, an experiment was conducted where researchers gave this choice to a 4-year-old: “I am leaving for a few minutes to run an errand and you can have a marshmallow while I am gone. But if you don’t eat it, you can have two marshmallows when I return.”…

For most of the 1980s, the city of Chicago experienced a tremendous budget crisis. This caused city officials to cut back wherever they could—often in drastic ways. But they learned the hard way there was a price to pay when…

Thomas Edison was concerned about the way visitors to his office helped themselves to his expensive Havana cigars. So since he refused to lock them up…

Peter Kreeft tells us that in the Latin rite for the burial of an Austrian emperor, the people carry the corpse to the door of the great monastic church. They strike the door and say…