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Byron Janis was a world-class concert pianist at the peak of his career. He had spent years studying and practicing and developing his art. Then one day, he felt a stiffness…

On June 18, 1815, the Duke of Wellington led his armies against Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Waterloo. In those days, updates from the battlefield reached England via powerful spotlights…

The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright built a house for industrialist Hibbard Johnson in 1937. One rainy evening, Johnson was entertaining distinguished guests when the roof began to leak…

The world-famous tenor Luciano Pavarotti learned early what commitment was all about. He relates, “When I was a boy, my father introduced me to the wonders of song…”

There is a tale told of the great English stage actor, William Macready. One day, an eminent preacher asked him…

Celestine Sibley, a columnist for ‘The Atlanta Constitution,’ once took her three children to a diner for breakfast. It was crowded, so they had to take separate seats along the counter…

In an article in ‘The Kansas City Times,’ Robert Fulghum wrote, “Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten…”

In 1948, during a runoff Senate primary fight with former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson, early indications were that Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson had lost…

In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. So he went to visit the head monk of a local monastery…

A farmer went each week to the Farmers’ Market to sell cottage cheese and apple butter he made on his farm. He carried them on the two-mile journey to the market in two large tubs…