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.

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.

In 1986, a terrible tragedy happened in the Black Sea off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of ship passengers were killed when two ships collided, throwing many into the icy waters below.

At the age of 14, a young man ran away from home and fought in the French and Indian War. When the American Revolution broke out, he joined the Continental Army…

In December of 1987, a Soviet cosmonaut returned to earth after nearly 11 months in orbit above the earth.

English writer Somerset Maugham once wrote a story about a janitor at St. Peter’s Church in London. It was discovered one day that this janitor was illiterate…

Judge John Lowell of Boston had a reputation as a harsh man. One morning at breakfast, Lowell was reading his morning paper when a frightened maid stepped into the room