When Benjamin Morrell dedicated his memoir to the Secretary of the United States Navy, he made a curious recommendation. The early 19th-century captain recommended that all long-voyage ships be provisioned with plenty of molasses and vinegar. Captain Morrell, though reputedly a teller of tall tales, certainly knew how to provision ships for success. His travels…
Here’s a Tip: The Fine Line Between Over-Tipping and Cheapskate
Tipping is important; waiters count on their tips to survive, or perhaps your plumber went above and beyond without charging you extra. But do you need to tip everyone you come into contact with? The short answer is no. Sit-Down Dining One legend says that the term tip—“to ensure promptness”—began as a box that was…
Good Food for Hard Times: Lessons—and Recipes—From Wartime and the Great Depression
If you take a hard look at your grocery bill, you’re probably a little unnerved these days. While the cost of just about everything has increased over the past several months, food costs have skyrocketed. Food inflation has accelerated for more than a year, by whopping 10 percent in the most recent calculations. That’s a…
Raphael: Architect, Archaeologist, and Protector of Ancient Rome
LONDON—Renaissance architects once used ancient Roman art as building materials. You read that right. In Rome, workmen quarried ancient sites and turned ancient sculptures and decorative arts into mortar. In a 1519 letter to Pope Leo X, Raphael and his friend the courtier and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione appealed to the pope to protect the city’s…
Vietnamese Baby With Facial Tumor Gets Adopted in the US, Reunites With Birth Parents at 18
A Vietnamese baby born with a large facial tumor, who was given up for adoption, has reunited with his birth parents at the age of 18 after growing up in California. Sam Ettore was born in Phu Rieng, Vietnam, with a benign cavernous hemangioma covering half his face. He was transferred to a hospital in the…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Life is Beautiful’: A Fable of Love and Truth
July 20, 2022
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PG | 1h 56min | Drama, Comedy | 1997 This year marks the 25th anniversary of Roberto Benigni’s classic, “Life is Beautiful,” (1997) which won three Oscars (Best Actor, Foreign Language Film, and Score). This tragi-comedy is about an early 20th-century Italian-Jewish waiter, a Chaplinesque Guido (Roberto Benigni who writes, acts in, and directs the…
Wilderness Photographer Creates Rather Than Captures a Sense of Place
Writer Henry David Thoreau said, “We can never have enough of nature,” and landscape photographer Erin Babnik delivers on that sentiment through her painstakingly captured images. Babnik hails from California, but she and her camera equipment travel all over the United States and the world with the goal of recording every jot and tittle of…
‘God Created a Brain in My Head’: Boy Born Without a Brain Gets Healed, Inspires Others Toward Faith
Over four decades ago, a God-loving family and nurse refused to give up on a baby boy born without a brain. They chose to pray, believing that a miracle would happen. And it did. Today, he is an evangelist minister with a powerful testimony and is leading others to faith in God. Jacob Phillips, 44,…
The Las Lajas Sanctuary: Gothic Revival Meets Local Legend
Inside the canyon of the Guáitara River in Colombia, South America, rests a breathtaking example of Gothic revival architecture: the Las Lajas Sanctuary. This popular spiritual destination celebrates the reputed appearance of the Virgin Mary at the site. In 1754, a woman named Maria Muneses de Quiñones and her mute-deaf daughter Rosa were caught in…
American Singer-Songwriter Warns of the Evils of Communism: ‘Our Civil Liberties Are God-Given’
July 19, 2022
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Singer-songwriter and human-rights activist James H. White, living in Mount Hope, New York, has been working tirelessly for the past 15-plus years to expose “the evils of communism.” White, who believes communism is “a hard fist, brutal tyranny,” has co-written, hosted, and narrated the award-winning documentary Canaries in a Cold War, which reveals how communist…
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