A condemned prisoner awaiting execution was given the usual privilege of choosing his last meal. The prison guards looked in bewilderment when the meal arrived…

Years ago when the New York Yankees were managed by Ralph Houk, baseball game schedules were much more demanding. In fact, teams usually played at least one double-header every week…

In her memoirs, First Lady Rosalynn Carter told of some of the odd things she learned about White House history when she was there. One thing she learned was that the children of James A. Garfield would often have pillow fights in the East Room…

In November of 1991, a freak dust storm caused a massive pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. Over a dozen people were killed…

Evangelist John Wesley was returning home from service one evening when he was robbed. The thief didn’t make out with much – a little money and some Christian literature…

Years ago, Merv Griffin had a bodybuilder on his show. During the interview, Merv asked him, “Why do you develop those particular muscles…?”

A tour group was making their way through the English countryside, stopping at several small villages along the way. In one particularly quaint hamlet, the group stopped to take some pictures…

A former police officer tells of the tactics of roving bands of thieves: They enter the store as a group. One or two separate themselves from the group…

“American history shall march along that skyline,” announced Gutzon Borglum in 1924 as he gazed at the Black Hills of South Dakota…

The family of Harry Bliss surely had no clue that their mourning would inaugurate a tide of death rarely seen before in human history…