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According to The New Book of Lists, the Cape of Good Hope is not well-named. The Portuguese explorer, Bartholomeu Dias called it the Cape of Storm. That's how rough he judged the waters to be. Historians say that the King of Portugal had the name changed to encourage people to travel th

In The Romance of the Last Crusade, British Major Vivian Gilbert told of his advance toward Jerusalem during World War I. He stopped one night to visit a field hospital. He stayed by the bedside of a dying soldier, barely nineteen. He told their location. They were at Emmaus. Then he told h

There is an old Irish folk song, "The Parting Glass." It is sung at the end of business at a typical Irish pub, but it has a more symbolic meaning. There is a part of the song that goes like this: Since it falls unto my lot, That I should rise and you should not, I'll g

Someone published a book picturing the many shapes of the cross. It has been stylized in a dozen ways. There is a Latin cross, a Greek cross, an Egyptian cross, a Jerusalem cross, a cross of St. Andrew, and an iron cross. Artists and architects have modified its basic form in many ways. I s

Earlier this year, on Capitol Hill, the entire Bible was read aloud. It was the 17th annual Bible Reading Marathon, and was held on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. It went on for 90 hours straight. Those ... Continue Reading...

News reports recently carried the story concerning Lester Lange of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Lange just celebrated his 108th birthday. He does not take medication. He has most of his original teeth and lives a happy life. When he was asked how to live a long and happy life, Lange said, "Keep

When it comes to learning the unvarnished truths about life, ask a child. The following pearls of wisdom from children have been making rounds on the web: 1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. 2) When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don't let her brush your hair. 3) If

It actually happened in a Sunday School class of boys long ago. The teacher asked each lad to quote a Bible verse as the offering was taken. One said, "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." Another said, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." A third boy blurted out, "A fool and his money

In the Agnes comic strip, Agnes declares to her friend, "I have found no causes that I think would be worth all the emotion that I would have to devote to it. From now on, the devotion of my emotion will be for self-promotion." Haven't we all met a few people like that? _______________ J

In her recent book, Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin focuses on the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. Goodwin notes that after Lincoln won the presidential election, he put his Republican rivals on his cabinet. This displayed two important facets of leadership. First, it showed that L