The oldest living things on earth are the bristlecone pines in the Iyno National Forest in California. They have endured for 4,800 years. The oldest dates from 2900 B.C. These trees were growing when Moses was given the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. They were already ancient when Christ was on...

When William the Conqueror defeated the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, he felt some remorse for the many who died there. So he built an Abbey to atone for all the blood shed. He built it on the battlefield itself. He built it so that the high altar would be on the very spot where King Harold died. But we can never...

The remarkable fulfillment of Biblical prophecies stands in stark contrast to the failures of modern prophets. Malcolm Bessent predicted that sometime between 1975 and 1980 New York City would be flooded and uninhabitable. It didn't happen. David Bubar predicted that by the middle 1980's Russians and Americans would try to...

In Charles Schultz's famous Peanuts comic strip the little dog Snoopy is recalling the past. "I remember those summer evenings years ago at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm. We used to sit around and sing while someone strummed a banjo." After a long sigh Snoopy sits up and says, "Actually, that's not true. No one knew how to play...

One of the slogans of environmentalists is: "The Earth Does Not Belong To Us. We Belong to the Earth." Of course, in one sense the slogan is true. Our bodies came from the dust of the earth. But in another sense, the slogan is not true. While our bodies came from the earth, we do...

The name of Curtis G. Lloyd is famous in botanical and pharmaceutical circles. The Lloyd Library in Cincinnati, Ohio, is named for him and his brother. He is buried in his hometown of Crittenden, Kentucky. The marker is most interesting. On one side it says...