I had Yi-Yi at home for almost a week from Netflix. Such things happen when you are working 70 hours a week and you only have late evening hours to watch a movie and the movie happens to be 3 hours long. I actually started it two seperate times and got about 30 minutes in [...]

The Bible specifies that Noah’s Ark came to rest on “the mountains of Ararat” and that as the waters continued to drain, other mountain tops could be seen. No particular mountain is indicated, for “Ararat” (or Urartu) was the name of an ancient country. The phrase “the mountains of Ararat” would be equivalent to saying [...]

What began as an ordinary Brownies excursion became a life-changing event for one North Carolina mom.
In 2003, Lysa and two of her daughters attended a performance by a boys’ choir from an orphanage in Liberia, a West African country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. At the concert, Lysa learned the 12 boys in [...]

Abigail Smith Adams had a front-row seat to the birth of a nation. She already had deep roots in America by the time the colonists began agitating for freedom from English rule in the 1700s. Both her mother’s and her father’s families had lived in the colonies for generations when Abigail was born in 1744. [...]

1987: Aquino suppresses rebel uprising
President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino has forced a group of heavily armed rebels occupying a television station to surrender.
Her troops fired tear gas into the Channel 7 building in Manila to try to flush out the group who have occupied the centre for the last two days.
A few minutes later [...]