A confused looking gentleman was noted on a street corner with a rope in his hand. Many people simply stared and passed him by. Finally a young man stopped and asked, "What's the problem?" "I'm not sure," replied the man. "I can't remember whether...

A young woman noticed in church that an elderly couple held hands the entire service. She was so moved by that, she decided to mention it. She went to the elderly woman and said, "I think it is so sweet that you and your husband...

In her book, Three Kentucky Towns That Never Were, the author, Mariam S. Houchens, names Lystra and Franklinville in Nelson County. They existed only on paper. Elaborate plans showed streets, parks, churches, markets, town halls,...

On Sunday, July 11th there was a strange historical re-enactment in Weehawken, New Jersey. This marked the 200th anniversary of the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Hamilton and Burr had been friends, but later became ...

In the book, The Twentieth Century, the authors record several great quotations about ageing. Ogden Nash once said, "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." Harvey Allen said, "The only...

According to Charles Panati, Silly Putty was an accident. James Wright, of General Electric, was striving to find a synthetic rubber that would be cheaper and more versatile than the real thing. What he came up with had some interesting qualities, but had no real practical use. It offered no real advantage to the real thing. ...

In a recent article in USA Today, Rita Rubin wrote an article concerning the communication gap between physicians and patients. She writes of Barry Weiss a professor of clinical and community medicine at the University of Arizona, who remembered a time when he consulted with a colleague about a diabetic patient. The...

It has been well said that the man who holds the ladder at the bottom is about as important as the man at the top. Everybody wants to be the man on the top, but he would not be there very long without the assistance he receives from the man at the...

There was a young convert in Haiti whose family believed in voodoo. They urged him not to forsake the family faith for this new Christian religion. But he ignored the family pressures and came for baptism. He walked into the water, stopped, and ...

According to the authors of the book Significa, the world's champion complainer was a man named Ralph Charrell.