It’s Your Lucky Day
By Brian Boone Not just because it’s St. Patrick’s Day, but because you get to read these stories about some of the luckiest people who ever lived. The World War II Pilot A member of the U.K.’s Royal Air Force during World War II, gunner Nicholas Alkemade was fighting over Germany when his Avro Lancaster […]
It’s Your Move — Check Out These Chess Facts
It’s just about the oldest and most popular board game out there, enjoyed all over the world by people of all ages. Here’s the checkered history and some very moving facts about chess, the “game of kings.” • Historians think chess as we know it was first played in India in the 6th century C.E. Its […]
How Cold-Thriving Animals Stay Warm in the Cold, Cold Winter
Here’s how animals that are active in the winter stay warm and healthy in all that snow and ice.
