COLUMNIST L. M. Boyd described the amazing good fortune of a man named Jack Wurm... In 1949, broke and out of a job, he was walking along a San Francisco beach when he came across a bottle with a piece...
THERE WERE SOME anxious moments at our house as my daughter and I prepared for our mission trip... Late in the packing process we discovered that my passport that had been set out earlier, was not a current passport! That...
WHEN BRITAIN'S OLDEST man turned 111, vintage aircraft did a flyover, and the Band of the Royal Marines played "Happy Birthday..." According to the Daily Mirror, Henry Allingham was amazed by all of the attention. Until 6 years earlier, he...
ARISTARCHUS, MARK AND Justus were the only Jewish Christians who stood with Paul... The others may have been those of whom Paul wrote, "The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains" (Philippians...
LAST YEAR WHILE hiking in the mountains of North Georgia, I came across a very large unusually shaped brick... The brick was almost completely covered in green, fur-like vegetation. After I scraped the green goop away, I carefully inspected the...
IN 1995, OUTSIDE THE Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., the son of a former embassy employee lost his life... Walking with his friends, he was confronted by muggers. Apparently, however, his murder could have been avoided. The thieves only wanted...
IT WAS A fog-shrouded morning, July 4, 1952, when a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island... She intended to swim the channel from the island to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new...
DR. PEDRO ARA Sarria perfected a technique for preserving the body and applied it to Argentina's Eva Peron... The embalmed body was kept intact but, for political reasons, was moved from place to place. It went from his laboratory in...
"EVERYBODY ENDS UP somewhere in life... A few people end up somewhere on purpose."1 The quote reminds me of the words of Paul to the saints at Philippi: "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high...