Meredith Willson was the famous author-composer whose most famous composition was the Broadway show The Music Man. He had grown up in the church in his boyhood home of Mason City, Iowa, but had not found a church in his adopted home of California. According to his biographer, John Skipper, Willson and his wife...

According to the Ripley people, there is a region in Russia where slapping people was once a sport. In what is probably a record, two men in 1931 slapped each other continuously for thirty hours. While slapping is no longer a sport, it sure seems that people spend a lot of time being unkind and uncivil to each other. If it were a ...