In the 1940s, the pastor of a tiny church in a rural town ordered a sign for their outdoor manger scene. The sign company was in another city, and needed to know the dimensions and wording of the sign. So for clarity purposes, the pastor decided to send a telegraph of the text and measurements of the sign…

As he approached the end of his life, atheist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared, “I do not feel I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.”…

For centuries, well-educated and literate people thought it to be of the utmost importance to get out of bed on the right side.

Some time ago during a football game between Michigan State and UCLA, the score was tied at 14 with only seconds to play.

In the mid-1700s, a shipload of migrants landed on the northwest coast of America. Their first year, they established a site on which they’d build their town.

The famous English architect Sir Christopher Wren was supervising the construction of a beautiful new cathedral in London.

One night in December of 1914, a fire in West Orange, New Jersey, claimed Thomas Edison’s manufacturing facilities and with it, almost $1 million…

A story is told of Tonto and the Lone Ranger riding through a canyon one afternoon.

A number of years ago, a play was written called The Potato Creek Chair of Death. This was a rather bizarre theatrical work about a man who built a timing device he attached to a shotgun.

A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful.