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This week in 1905 at the Premier Mine in Pretoria, South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” it was the largest diamond ever found. Frederick Wells was 18 feet below the earth’s surface when he spotted a flash of starlight […]

A few years ago I had knee surgery. The recovery went well. There were still a few tender spots but I came around. In order for me to make progress, I had to be sure that my good leg was leading the way for the damaged one. It’s not that the sore leg didn’t want

The season of college football is now over and basketball is taking center court. For those of us living in the East, football is OK. But when it comes down to basketball, we get dead serious! There is a reason they call it March Madness in spring! Even the famous Harlem Globetrotters started out as

One of the greatest inventors in history did not always get his ideas off the ground. This week in 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine. He probably put a great deal of time and effort in figuring out how to be the first person to soar as birds. But it just wasn’t

One of my pastor friends recently met with me to discuss some ideas on how to go about teaching a humanities class that wrestles how technology affects our society. It will be an interesting topic this fall for both of us. But one of the catchy slogans he said over and over made me think

You may have read that the iconic Twinkies is making a come back later this month. You can now take your valued Twinkies out of storage. Forget about taking it to the Antique Road show in 30 years! It looks like they will be around for years to come. I never really got a craving

Have you seen the recent video clip of a three year old who is now being able to hear for the first time? The doctors at the University of North Carolina Hospital “hot-wired” an auditory device on his head to bypass his ear and connect it to the boys’ brain. The success of their endeavors

The buzz of the College World Series has been the talk around here lately. But Americans still love football. One of the best football coaches that ever lived began his life today in 1913. It is none other than the great Vince Lombardi. You can’t say the Green Bay Packers without mentioning him. He not

Let’s do the math – in the past few weeks the vast majority of Americans felt one way about an issue and Congress voted differently. Something just didn’t add up! The media brought up this thorny problem we have in our country. It seems that the people (usually small in number) who yell the loudest

Last week in Texas there a small glimpse for us to see five Presidents of the United States together at one time. The current president, Barak Obama and his predecessors back to Jimmy Carter were in Dallas to dedicate the Presidential Library for President George W. Bush. Very few times in our country’s history do