Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born to an aristocratic family in 1874. He was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945. Churchill helped lead the successful Allied strategy to ultimately defeat the Axis powers and then afterwards lay the groundwork for post-war […] Read more

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (November 30, 1874 to January 24, 1965) was a British politician, military officer and writer who served as the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. Born to an aristocratic family in 1874, Churchill served in the British Army and worked as a writer […] Read more

JF: I’m Jerry Fletcher. My “Why Push Yourself?” audio tapes have discouraged millions from getting the job they want. Man: I heard about all the job listings in the Work Place Mega Section and I was really excited about building a successful career. (lose motivation) But thanks to Fletcher’s “Why Push Yourself” program, I never […] Read more

Religion, particularly organized religion, provides many people with a sense of purpose and community. As we discussed in Chapter 12, religious communities can have many beneficial effects and often sit at the core of a person’s cultural identity, but that does not make the claims of those religions true. In reality, religion itself does not […] Read more

(Edward Klein, St. Martin’s Press, July 8, 2003) The marriage made front-page news everywhere, and a new Kennedy myth was born. The man who could have had any woman in the world had chosen as his bride one who was not rich or famous or ennobled by family background or distinguished by any professional accomplishment. […] Read more

In 1960, 5.8 million American kids lived in single-parent families. Today, that number has more than tripled, to an astonishing 18 million. Another figure is equally startling: nearly 40 percent of our children don’t live in the same home as their biological father. Today, the number of kids whose parents are divorced is nearly equaled […] Read more

From Better Homes and Gardens In 1960, 5.8 million American kids lived in single-parent families. Today, that number has more than tripled, to an astonishing 18 million. Another figure is equally startling: nearly 40 percent of our children don’t live in the same home as their biological father. Today, the number of kids whose parents […] Read more

(SFX: Music under) It’s time to get struck…with your 2012-13 Wichita Thunder season tickets. Your defending Berry Conference Champion Thunder have Central Hockey League supremacy in their midst. Don’t miss the checking, the saves, the scores. Plans for all home games at Intrust Bank Arena start at just under 300 dollars. Get in on all […] Read more

The northern German town of Bad Segeberg is renowned for two things: a vast cave visited each winter by twenty-two thousand bats, and an annual Karl May Festival visited each summer by three hundred thousand people. Karl May (pronounced “my”) is an adventure writer from the late nineteenth century whom most Americans have never heard […] Read more