Trudi Hall of Baytown, TX, has told of an experience that she and her husband shared on a recent trip:There was a man that Keith and I met last year on a ship we took from Barcelona, Spain to Galveston, Texas. The ship crew was handing out little “Monopoly” dollars...
Sean Dusinberre and two of his sons, Joshua and Dylan, were on their way home last Tuesday, November 18, after a trip to Buffalo to watch the Bills play the Cleveland Browns on Monday night. Snow covered the ground on this cold day in rural western New York.Suddenly,...
Amanda Reece hired a former high school classmate, Bob Kitts, for a remodeling project in her 83-year-old home near Lake Erie in Ohio. As Kitts was tearing out the bathroom walls in the home, he discovered two green metal lockboxes suspended inside a wall below the...
Oseola McCarty spent most of her life washing and ironing clothes for the well-to-do of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Miss McCarty always dreamed about becoming a nurse, but had to drop out of school after the 6th grade to help support her mother, grandmother and an aunt....
For millennia the mystery of disease had puzzled mankind. Various theories had been put forth as to why people became ill, such as spontaneous generation, evil spirits, an imbalance of bodily “humors,” and bad air caused by eclipses and comets, among other...
“The medal itself bears only one word, and needs only one: VALOR.”President George W. Bush made this statement on July 16, 2001, in a ceremony in which he presented the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military honor, to Army Captain Ed...
In the 1960s, Walter Mischel conducted an experiment at Stanford University called The Marshmallow Experiment. The experiment involved testing a group of four-year-olds. Each was offered a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before...