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An emergency dispatch officer in eastern China received an unusual emergency call from a young woman and realized she was sending a coded message. The woman said she wanted to order a takeout of a pair of chopsticks and an egg. Police immediately understood that the woman was in danger because the call…

The old saying says sometime things can be better late than never. For the Attleboro Public library in Massachusetts, almost 80 years might be a little too long. The library posted pictures on its social media site of a book that had just been returned. The due date stamped in the back was November 21,…

After a stampede at an Ohio concert killed 11 people, a December, 1979 appearance by the rock group, The Who in Rhode Island was cancelled. 17-year-old Emery Lucier was so upset when he heard the news that he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom. Now 50, Lucier will have the opportunity…

What gets planned gets done. On New Year's Day, 1929, Georgia Tech played University of California in the Rose Bowl. In that game a man named Roy Riegels recovered a fumble for California. Somehow, he became confused and started running 65 yards in the wrong direction. One of his teammates, Benny Lom,…

Anyone can be the same, but it takes courage to be different. An invisible mark was on the name of Edwin Booth. Where once he had been a fine actor and one of the best tragedians in America, a giant asterisk now stood beside his name in the minds of the people. He was no longer Edwin Booth the Shakespearean…

In a cemetery not far from New York City is a headstone engraved with a single word: FORGIVEN. The message is simple, unembellished. There is no date of birth, no epitaph. There is only a name and the solitary word FORGIVEN. But that is the greatest word that can be applied to any man or woman, or written…

A Christian Guide to Passover (PESCH) Below is a compilation of several contemporary Seder services that are used today. Because of the passage of time and that Passover was intended to be a family tradition, it is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the type of Passover meal or celebration that…