Sometimes we get angry at the Post Office, but sometimes we must tip our hat to them. According to wire service reports, the Postal Service in Cincinnati, Ohio, is trying to find a descendant, or friend, of Posey Cullen. They are trying to deliver a postcard addressed to her. The problem is, the postcard is dated February 23...

In Greek mythology, there appears a character named king Tantalus. The king had drawn the wrath of the Greek gods. He was punished in the afterlife by being chained in a lake. The lake waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he tried to bend down to satisfy his thirst. If that wasn't bad enough, over his head were...

There is an old tale, attributed to Aesop, concerning a man who had two wives, one old and one young. The man was getting gray. His younger wife did not want to be confused for his daughter, so when he was with her, while he was sleeping, she would pluck out his gray hairs. The older wife welcomed the gray hairs. She was...

One of the most honored and decorated naval commanders was Lord Horatio Nelson. Many do not know that when he won his greatest victories, he was suffering from gout, malaria, chest pains, depression, a missing eye and a missing arm. He also suffered all of that time from seasickness. Some may say he chose the wrong...

The story is still told about the year 1816. Some call it "The Year Without Summer." During that year, New England saw a blizzard on June 6th. The Deep South suffered high temperatures in the mid-forties in July. Why did this happen? It was all because of a huge volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Clouds of volcanic dust...

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 ...