In 1948, during a runoff Senate primary fight with former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, early indications were that Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson had lost. Six days later, however, Precinct 13 in the border town of Alice, Texas, showed a very interesting result….
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In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. So he went to visit the head monk of a local monastery and asked to spend the rest of his life living in isolation and devoting himself to prayer and worship…
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A farmer went each week to the Farmers’ Market to sell cottage cheese and apple butter he made on his farm. He carried them on the two-mile journey to the market in two large tubs, from which he ladled the cottage cheese or apple butter into smaller containers the customers brought…
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An older gentleman walked into his first appointment with his new doctor who was fresh out of medical school. The two greeted one another and the doctor began asking the man about his health…
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Christian author Carole Mayhall tells of a woman who went to a diet center to lose weight. The director took her to a full-length mirror. On it he outlined a figure and told her, “This is what I want you to be like at the end of the program.” So she committed that day to lose the weight necessary to fit into the figure on the mirror…
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If you’ve ever had the chance to visit the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, you might’ve noticed a portrait on a wall near the main entrance with the following inscription…
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It happens to us all at one time or another…
You’re in a situation where you’re talking to someone and discover you both have a common acquaintance. But as the person begins to talk about your common friend…
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In the early 1900s, a London newspaper printed an advertisement that read…
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An elderly woman was shopping one day for a new hearing aid. “How much are your hearing aids?” she asked the salesman. “Anywhere from a dollar to $25,000,” the salesman said…
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The famous chemist M. A. Rosanoff, a longtime associate of Thomas Edison, had worked for over a year to no avail trying to soften the wax of phonograph cylinders by altering their chemical constitution…
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