In the past decade, we saw the death of three notable monarchs. Sultan of Oman, Sayyid Qaboos bin Said wanted his people to achieve...

Years ago, one of my flights got canceled, and I stood in line with others to be rerouted. The man before me initially held a...

Double entendre are words and phrases with double meanings. A billboard near our house for an air-conditioning company has a picture of a...

Concerning marital fidelity, the Roman poet Juvenal said, “Who will guard the guards themselves” (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?). In...

Nearly 28 years ago, Lori and I sat before a customs officer in India, waiting for him to release our shipment from the States. We had...

Schools and colleges in America have “Yearbooks” for the graduating class. It’s a collection of pictures from their school for them to...

Jay Leno, the American comedian, owns over 180 cars and 160 motorcycles worth over $52 million. Opera Winfrey has three houses in...

Name That Tune was a famous American radio and later television show where the host played a few scores from a song, and the contestants...

I understand poetic licenses – I use them. But I have difficulty singing the lines “I want to see You; I want to see You” in the song...

When King Charles III was coronated, some protesters in England held the sign “Not My King.” Years before that, in America, people held...

Historiographer Royal is the official title in English speaking world for the person that a monarch appoints as the court historian....

The Gospel of Luke, with 19,482 words, is the longest among the four Gospels. The Book of Acts has another 18,450 words. These together...

The Lord Jesus’s last recorded words to Peter were, “Feed my sheep” (John 21:15–17). Peter realized the best feed he could give his sheep...

Queen Elizabeth II had a great sense of humor. One day, she was walking in her holiday home, Balmoral Castle in Scotland, with her...

Magicians thrive on misdirection. For example, if they want the audience not to see what their hands are doing, they’ll look at some...

Autostereograms are two-dimensional (2D) images with repeating patterns that hide a three-dimensional (3D) image – a picture within a...

Albert Einstein proposed a principle of relative time that gave rise to what’s known as the twin paradox. Einstein suggested that if an...

In horserace gambling, a trifecta is when a betting person guesses the first three winners in the correct order. Such a person would walk...

One seafood restaurant by our house in Texas has a large sign painted on their wall – “Free crabs tomorrow.” People know it’s false – if...

A tribe in India captures monkeys by putting peanuts in a can, sealing the lid, putting a small hole large enough for a monkey’s hand to...