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…

Larry Walters was an adventurous soul. One day, he went to the local army surplus store and purchased 45 used weather balloons…

In 1949, time technicians at the National Institute of Standards & Technology set a new level of precision with the invention of the atomic clock…

Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, was walking along a sidewalk one day across the university campus when he ran into another professor…

Hudson Taylor, the famous missionary and founder of the China Inland Mission, was once complimented by a friend on the impact of his mission work in the Far East…

Science tells us that the body needs on average about three quarts of water a day to operate efficiently. Water helps break up and soften food, making it the most critical chemical…

You’ve very likely heard about the Pony Express, the historically famous mail service between St. Joseph, Missouri, and the West Coast. This service depended on constant movement…

Americans are getting warned to death. Any cursory look at most packages today, and you’ll find a host of warnings about misusing the product…