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This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…

> Why We Love Kids > >> > >>I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening > >>when a > >>woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was > >>stark > >>naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my five-year-old > >>shout from > >>the back seat, "Mom! That lady…

To have the form of godliness without the power of it is to lack constancy in your religion. It is a very hot and thirsty day, and you are riding on a camel. Suddenly there rises before you a beautiful scene. Just a little way from you are brooks of water flowing between beds of osiers and banks of reeds…

Some years ago there went into a Methodist class meeting a lawyer who was a doubter, but at the same time a man of candid spirit. Sitting down on one of the benches, he listened to a certain number of poor people, his neighbors, whom he knew to be honest people. He heard some 13 or 14 of these persons…

Faith is like a metalworker who is about to prepare some work of fine art, such as smiths used to produce in the days of wrought iron. Faith, like a strong and vigorous smith, has love as its arm. Faith does not lift a finger without love. Faith believes and resolves, and then it proceeds to action,…

Everyone makes mistakes. Some are caught on camera. Rodney King Jr., a Detroit resident order pizza for dinner. With anticipation, he was watching his front door camera to see when the pizza arrived. He was hungry and was ready to eat. Finally, the delivery driver arrived. However, the pizza fell out…

A crew assisting with the demolition of a 115- year- old church to make way for affordable housing found a previously unknown time capsule hidden by the cornerstone. The company Earthwise Architectural Salvage was removing stained glass windows and other valuable items before the structure was brought…

Timothee Mottin owns a café-restaurant in the French Alps and has gathered a collection of items from mishaps on the Mont Blanc glacier. His most recent find is copies of Indian newspapers with headlines for 1966 when Indira Gandhi became India’s first woman prime minister. The papers were probably aboard…

Communities across the United Kingdom are being invited to adopt the famous red telephones boxes. British Telecommunications has initiated a program to convince local communities to adopt and use local red telephone boxes that are no longer needed. The growth in mobile phone usage has rendered the boxes…

George Condash did the right thing when he discovered a box of cash outside his credit union—he turned it in. As it turned out, a security guard left it behind when servicing the ATM. The Credit Union did give him a reward for his good deed, but Alicia Stewart, the bank’s cash manager told reporters…

Rick Nelson, 61, was walking his dog near his Ontario home when a 300-pound black bear charged him. The mama bear was only defending her cub but she bit Nelson in the chest and face. Rick had been a featherweight boxer in his earlier days and he struck the beast in the teeth with a right-hand jab, following…

A man who accidentally threw a shoebox containing $23,000 into a recycling bin was relieved to get his money back. The man did not realize his mistake until the recycling bin had already been emptied into truck headed for the processing facility. He contacted the facility’s manager who advised workers…

There is an interesting new sport in Russia—a slapping contest. Face slappers must stand opposite each other, separated only by a tall box, and slap each other in turn until one either faints or concedes. Unlike in boxing, competitors are not allowed to try to dodge the blow. Vasily Kamotsky, a 28-year-old…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine quotes Bezos as saying, “The whole point of moving things forward,” says Bezos, “is that you run into problems, into failures, and you have to back up and do things again.…

During the height of pandemic, Zohaib Begg undertook a mission to gather personal protective equipment for frontline workers. Then, the self-proclaimed “Chief Kindness Officer” decided he needed to do more to help his community so he contacted area business asking for help putting together boxes containing…

Officials in the state of Louisiana reported that a moon rock given to the state in 1972 was returned by a Florida man who purchased the plaque to use the wood to repair guns. The man said he frequently buys old plaques at garage sales to use the wood to repair the stocks of guns. He said he was looking…

German police retrieved a $340,000 painting that was accidentally left behind by a businessman flying to Israel. Authorities said the man notified them after arriving in Tel Aviv when he discovered the painting by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy had been left in Dusseldorf. The man was so distraught that…

In Thailand, government officials have set in motion an unusual plan to curb littering in the nations’ Khao Yai National Park. The country’s Environment minister posted an announcement on Facebook saying he intends to send the trash to the homes of tourists who litter in the park. “Your trash—we’ll send…

A wallet found inside the walls of cottage undergoing renovation in Georgia was returned to the family of the owner. Mary Kay Andrews, an author who owns the house now, said crews found the wallet inside a wall, and it appeared the wallet had been there for decades. Documents inside the billfold identified…

The tree selected to stand in New York’s Rockefeller Center for the 2020 Christmas season came with an unexpected guest. An employee of the company that secured and transported the tree spotted a little owl in the tree. He put it in a box and called his wife, who checked with a local wildlife center.…

The family of a Scottish farmer issued an apology to an entire community after their bull accidentally knocked out power for 700 homes. Hazel Loughton said the bull, named Ron, was trying to scratch an itch and ended up knocking the transformer box to the ground, knocking out the power. Laughton posted…

Six-year-old Daphne Kenny found a surprise in the cereal aisle that made her trip to grocery extra special. While she, her sister, and mother were shopping Daphne pulled a piece of paper from the shelf beside a box of cereal. Her mother thought it might be someone’s grocery list, but it turned out to…

Buster Douglass competed with Mike Tyson, AKA “Iron Mike” the heavy weight champion of the world for the title. The champ not only defeated those put in from of him but annihilated them. As the time came for Douglass to enter the ring, the experts did not give him a chance. In the eighth round, Mike…

A Staten Island, New York couple found a safe containing over $50,000 worth of diamonds, gold, jade, and wet cash in a rusting safe on their property. They believed the rusting box setting beneath some trees was an old cable box so they ignored it. When they had a couple of the trees removed, the safe…

For years a priceless vase sat in a French family’s attic, hidden in a shoebox. The family had received the heirloom as part of an inheritance, but stashed the boxes in the attic planning to deal with them later. When the owner opened the box, they were stunned by the shades of green, blue, yellow, and…