The Amazing History Of Christmas Do you know where the idea of stocking stuffers comes from? Or how lights found their way onto the Christmas tree? Or why do we all have the jolly, red-suited, white-haired image of Santa Claus in our heads? In this video, historian William Federer explores the holiday’s rich and unique […]
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Christmas Is For Giving Author Unknown It was Christmas Eve, 1942. I was fifteen years old and felt like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn’t been enough money to buy me the rifle that I’d wanted for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just
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Some Good Advice For Young Men On Their Way Up Take head. I’ve been on this planet a very long time, and this advice served me well as I climbed corporate ladders and dealt with the world in general. You don’t have to keep every secret, just the important ones. Place-dropping is worse than name-dropping.
A Chance Encounter Paul Deutschman, Great Stories Remembered, edited and compiled by Joe L. Wheeler. Marcel Sternberger was a methodical man of nearly 50, with bushy white hair, guileless brown eyes, and the bouncing enthusiasm of a czardas dancer of his native Hungary. He always took the 9:09 Long Island Railroad train from his suburban
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A Sandpiper To Bring You Joy She was six years old when I first met her on the beach near where I live. I drive to this beach, a distance of three or four miles, whenever the world begins to close in on me. She was building a sandcastle or something and looked up, her eyes
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