Yesterday’s devotional talked about the 177th anniversary of one of the greatest maritime disasters, the explosion of the canon aboard the USS Princeton.  Another disaster occurred on yesterday’s date back in 1993. The story begins when Vernon Wayne Howell joined an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventists in 1981.  Howell had exhaustive Bible knowledge and often… Read More »

John Tyler became the 10th President of the United States after serving only one month as the Vice President to William Henry Harrison who died 31 days after his inauguration.  He was sworn into office on April 4, 1841. On this day in 1844, President Tyler was cruising the Potomac on the U.S. Navy’s newest… Read More »

There is an old adage that says “haste makes waste.”  “This rhyming warning, first record [sic] in this exact form in 1575, was in John Ray’s 1678 proverb collection, where the full text was:  “Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the goodman and his wife.”* The phrase means that… Read More »

What would you do to make yourself beautiful?  I always thought that fad diets, getting plastic surgery, or Botox injections had to be the worst things a person could put themselves through just to achieve their idea of beauty.  Anything that involves cleansing or cutting just didn’t sound like a great way to spend the… Read More »

Novolazarevskaya Station is a Russian research facility located in Antarctica.  Established on January 18, 1961, it houses research teams from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.  Why would they have established this in January?  Believer it or not, January tends to be the warmest month of the year with temperatures topping out in the mid… Read More »

There is a governmental law enforcement agency that is tasked with numerous objectives.  One of the most high-profile missions they have is the protection of the President of the United States.  This organization is the Secret Service. Founded in 1865 under the Department of the Treasury, their original mission was to combat the growing menace… Read More »

It was one of those days when we had been gone the better part of an afternoon.  Arriving home and entering the house, we are greeted by our dog who is obviously glad to see us and is losing her mind trying to figure out who to greet first and for how long before going… Read More »

Imagine someone with terrible manners going up to someone asking them if those are their own teeth.  The horrors of such impoliteness and impropriety ripple through us with shudders of shock!  While the question should never be asked, we know the intent of the question.  Are those your original teeth or dentures? There is a… Read More »

Today is the 73rd birthday of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, better known as NASCAR.  What you may not know is that teetotaler Henry Ford and the moonshine industry played a big unsuspecting part in creating this sport. From 1920-1933, Prohibition was taking place in our country, banning the production, importation, transportation,… Read More »

The last two days, we have been talking about pencils and erasers.  The “sharp” thing to do next would be to introduce the pencil sharpener.  There’s nothing worse than trying to write with a dull pencil! Sharpening the graphite was most likely done originally on a pumice stone or rock.  Depending on where we are… Read More »