A leaky kitchen faucet is a minor problem. Yet a steady trickle of water is a waste of both water and money, and eventually it will get on your nerves. Before starting repairs, your first step is to shut off both hot- and cold-water supply lines under the sink […] Read more

Your kitchen sink may be the only thing in the room that works harder than you do. A good-quality sink can last 15 years, but even so it’s likely to need replacing before you need a total kitchen overhaul. This month’s Homeowner’s Video includes step-by-step instructions for replacing a kitchen sink. It’s your weekend project, […] Read more

Thistle sticks sixty six thousand and six thistle sticks Theophulous Thistle, the thistle sifter thrust a thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb […] Read more

Shuffling about his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, a shock of hair over one side of his forehead, sharp blue eyes sparkling, stains and chemical burns on his wrinkled clothing, Thomas Edison never looked like a man whose inventions had revolutionized the world in less than a lifetime. Certainly, he never acted like it. […] Read more

One of our greatest Presidents of the past was born at the foot of the Blue Ridge, near Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1743. Thomas Jefferson set the real American standard of living when at only 33, he penned the Declaration of Independence. “I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of […] Read more

He endured the loss of nearly everything he held dear but somehow never lost his faith in the future. He distilled a century of enlightenment thinking into one sentence which began “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” Yet he owned more than 200 human beings and never saw […] Read more

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‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ‘I WISH you could talk!’ ‘We CAN talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’ Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, […] Read more

Welcome to the Rice Museum’s special exhibit: Tibet, the Sacred Realm. The photographs you are about to see contain more than 180 images, most of which have never before been shown in public. No country in the world remains more mysterious, distant, and inaccessible than Tibet. Bordered by the massive Himalayas to the south and […] Read more