Sir Christopher Wren was a famous 17th-century British architect who designed Windsor Town Hall near London. When he drew up the plans, he designed a ceiling supported by pillars…

Dr. George Sweeting recounted a time when he and his family took a trip to Niagara Falls. It was spring, and huge blocks of ice were rushing down the river…

Two very different birds with very different outlooks make their homes in the deserts of the United States. One is the vulture: a giant scavenger bird…

Norman Cousins, a prominent writer of the 20th century, was diagnosed with a rare, crippling, and incurable disease…

In the mid-1960s, Bill Russell was the star basketball center for the world-champion Boston Celtics. Russell was dominant on the court…

One day, a man was walking by a farm and saw an eagle living among the chickens. So he stopped to ask the farmer why. The farmer replied that he had found the eagle…

In the ninth century, King Alfred the Great saved England from conquest by the Danish. At one point during his war with the Danes, Alfred was forced to seek refuge…

Suffering from terminal cancer at the age of 47, former North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano did an interview where he admitted to being overly obsessed with winning…

Actor Peter Sellers was well known for his work in television and movies. He was also famous for the amount of time and energy he put into immersing himself in his characters…

In the spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. At one point during the game, the Orioles’ John McGraw got into a fight…