Category: Inspired

Archeologists Baffled by Mysterious Viking Sword Made of ‘Crucible Steel’ 800 Years Before It Was Invented

The famed Ulfberht Viking swords were made of metal so pure it baffled archaeologists. It was thought the technology to forge such metal was not invented for another 800 or more years, during the Industrial Revolution. About 170 Ulfberhts have been found, dating from A.D. 800 to 1,000. A Nova National Geographic documentary titled “Secrets…


Getting Beyond the Habit Honeymoon

Habits. It’s the small decisions we make every hour of the day that predict how great or little our success, productivity, and focus can be. I choose to wake up an hour before anyone else in my house so I can have peace and quiet to start my day. I track my daily exercise on…


Director Interview: ‘Love in the Time of Revolution’ Documentary, to be Screened in Melbourne

With the theme of “Like Water We Meet Again, Don’t Lose and Don’t Forget,” the “Melbourne Hong Kong Film Festival” was opened on the third anniversary of “612.” On June 18, Ngan Chi-sing (顔志昇), director of “Love in the Time of Revolution,” talked on “Precious Dialogue (珍言真語),” that the film mainly records the stories and…


Moral Tales for Children From McGuffey’s Readers: A Walk in the Garden

This is the seventh instalment in our McGuffey Readers series, in which we reproduce some of the best moral tales from the classic 1800s schoolbooks that sold an estimated 122 million copies by 1960, the largest circulation of any book in the world next to the Bible and Webster’s Dictionary. McGuffey’s Readers played an important…


‘I Was About to Black Out’: Aussie Woman Loses Job for Refusing 2nd Jab After COVID Shot’s ‘Stroke-Like’ Symptoms

Australians are still suffering from the trauma of government health mandates. In the wake of Australia’s “zero COVID” policy, which boasts 95 percent of all citizens over 16 vaccinated and some of the world’s strictest lockdowns, Scott Morrison’s government was swept out of power in May. Yet broken businesses and people’s wrecked health struggle to recover. Some fear…


Scared, Stranded Dog Alone on Bridge Support Beam Rescued by a Group of 7 Cyclists

A group of Texas cyclists flagged down by a concerned passerby on a morning ride stopped to investigate, and ended up saving a  stranded dog in despair from a concrete bridge support beam, 20 feet off the ground. Texas-born Abbey Robinson, 45, had joined a spontaneous ride with six cyclists from her hometown of Fort Worth…


Heroic 3-Legged Dog Battling Cancer Rescues Orphaned Otter Pup From River

Weeks after his leg was amputated as part of an ongoing cancer battle, a keen-eyed dog rescued an otter pup from a river near his family’s home. His family doesn’t know for sure how the baby otter got stranded, but they know their brave pooch’s actions saved its life. Retiree Cleo Young of St. Mary’s…


‘Energy Flows Where Focus Goes’: Couple Shares Secrets of 30 Years of Marriage Without Any Arguments

Blair and Hannah Keeley know how to keep a loving marriage alive and healthy. The Virginia couple, who’ve had a happy and harmonious marriage for the past 30 years, claims that it has been without any arguments. “You keep love alive by continually feeding it,” Hannah, 53, told The Epoch Times. “A lot of marriages…


Could Bee-Friendly Bricks Save Bees? Inventor Makes Homes for Bumblebees From Bricks With Holes in Them

Next time you sip your morning coffee, consider the declining honeybee populations that make coffee crops possible. Beekeepers lost 45.5 percent of their managed honeybee colonies in the United States between April 2020 and April 2021. A phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder is mysteriously wiping out bees globally, which could have devastating effects on…


Multiple Abortion Survivor Says God Helped Her Forgive Birth Parents Who Did Everything to Abort Her

Calling her birth mother’s womb “the scariest place in the world,” a woman who survived multiple abortion attempts has chosen forgiveness, with the help of her adoptive parents who taught her how to offer mercy through surrender to God. Dawn Milberger, 55, lives in the Central Texas Hill Country with her husband of 21 years….