Exchanging AK-47s for Farm Tools

When the South African country of Mozambique was decolonized, a civil war broke out that lasted 15 years until 1992. Over a million people were abused ...

Florida Man Threatens with Weapon Named ‘Kindness’

Whereas the conventional wisdom calls for killing your neighbors with kindness, resident Bryan Stewart took the idea to its literal extreme.

According ...

False Terrorist Report Against Family Nets Man Probation

Spurned by family members who left him out of an event, an Oregon man got his revenge in a most public, disruptive fashion.

Sonny Donnie Smith, 38, was ...

Civil War Surrender Brings Life Not Retribution

After a long night and day of marching, Lee and the exhausted Army of Northern Virginia made camp just east of Appomattox Courthouse on April 8. Lieutenant ...

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

In her book Grapes of Wrath Or Grace, Barabra Brokhoff tells the following story:

A group of American tourists were taking a bus tour in Rome led by an ...

Famous Musician's Wisdom on Marriage

The singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (a Jew who seemed to have an interest in the person of Jesus Christ) once called marriage "the hottest furnace ...

Competitive Chickens Spend Time Fighting Not Producing

An evolutionary biologist at Purdue University named William Muir studied chickens. He was interested in productivity—I think it's something ...

The Unlikely Family in a Canadian Bird Sanctuary

High up in a tree in British Columbia's Shoal Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary, six birds are sharing a nest: specifically, two bald eagles, their ...

Artist Transforms Weapons of War

Pedro Reyes, an artist from Mexico City, transforms weapons discarded by the Mexican army for his project called "Disarm." So far he has transformed ...

Advice from Divorce Lawyers about Social Media Use

A survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that 81 percent of lawyers said they'd seen an increase in divorce cases using evidence ...