April 9, 2013 0 Too Much Pain In 1985, a man named Richard Paey was in a car accident outside of Philadelphia. The accident [...]
April 8, 2013 0 Saving 6,000 Chiune Sugihara died on July 31, 1986, in Japan. To his neighbors, he was just another guy. He had worked as [...]
April 5, 2013 0 Green Potato Chips Every once in a while — less often than a few years ago — you’ll open a bag [...]
April 4, 2013 0 Man Not Overboard The apex of chivalry — at least, in some sort of romanticized sense — occurs on a [...]
April 3, 2013 0 Koreikashakai Prisoners If one were to rank nations by their incarceration rates, the United States would easily top that list with [...]
April 2, 2013 0 Issei Sagawa Issei Sagawa’s Wikipedia entry lists his occupation as a “public speaker, [...]
April 1, 2013 0 Royal Brew At the close of the 1977 Major League Baseball season, the Kansas City Royals sat atop their division with [...]
March 29, 2013 0 Razzle Dazzle If you look up the term “camouflage,” you’ll almost certainly find a definition dealing [...]
March 28, 2013 0 Beard Dough Peter the Great was the tzar of Russia from 1682 until his death in 1725. During that period, Europe was [...]
March 25, 2013 0 Do You See What I See? The image above — yes, an arrow — is actually, in this case, an optical illusion. In 1889, German [...]