My Five Rules for Writing
My favorite canine writer, Snoopy of Peanuts fame, received a boatload of rejection slips in his...
Infernal Machines
On a misty night in October of 1863, the aptly named David, a small Confederate torpedo boat, set...
The Girl Who Named a Planet Over Breakfast
Venetia Burney was having breakfast on March 14, 1930, when her grandfather read aloud a newspaper...
God’s Fool
The young man rode his horse along the road that weaved through the lush countryside of Assisi,...
The Superman Origins Story
Superman started out as a villain. When two students from Glenview High School in Cleveland, Jerry...
Finding New Life in the Death Strip
An elderly man shoves two packages out of a fourth floor window, and then he crawls out and sits...
Brad Pitt, Take Notice
Sky Andrecheck's field of dreams is more like a field of data. His specialty is known as...
Henry ‘Box’ Brown on CBS
Happy Henry Day! This week marks the 166th anniversary of Henry Brown's amazing escape from...
Lincoln’s Life Masks
Abraham Lincoln had two "life masks"Â created--one in 1860 before the Civil War began and the...