Many marriages learn to thrive with the challenge of age differences. But what about a 300-year age difference?
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On a journey to New Orleans, Abraham Lincoln paused to watch a slave auction. Deeply disturbed by what he witnessed, one young woman especially caught his attention.
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I was starting to wonder if we would make it out alive. On a recent trip to the Carolinas to visit family, Linda and I toured Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
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Thirty minutes from our home stands Armstrong Grove, a 240-acre, old-growth redwood preserve. For movie buffs, it's the setting for the Star Wars flick, Return of the Jedi,
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Imagine walking into your kitchen, and being met by a giant snake, larger than you! Singer and author Carolyn Arends tells the story of a missionary couple from Africa
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St. Telemachus was a monk who lived in the fourth century in Asia Minor. While tilling his garden one day, he sensed God telling him to go to Rome.
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Unquestionably, the dominant hero of my childhood was number 7, center fielder for the New York Yankees, Mickey Mantle. The greatest switch-hitter of all time, he was perhaps the most exciting baseball player ever to watch.
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Christmas Day, 1863. America’s poet laureate, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, found himself in a deep state of depression.
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