In a small village in Borneo , well-intentioned health workers once sprayed the straw huts with the now-illegal substance, DDT.

The famous British music conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, didn’t particularly care for the music of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

In her memoirs, First Lady Rosalynn Carter told of some of the odd things she learned about White House history when she was there.

Evangelist John Wesley was returning home from service one evening when he was robbed. The thief didn’t make out with much

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.

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

A story is told of a general in the Persian army who captured spies and sentenced them to death. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between going before a firing squad or walking through a big black door.

A man went fishing one day without catching a single fish. So, he packed up his gear, went to the market, and picked out three fat fish to take home to his family…

A man from the city was visiting relatives out on a farm. He watched as his uncle whistled at his dog and his dog herded cattle into the corral.