They found her curled up in a hall closet, hidden behind a pile of dirty clothes. When the policeman opened the door, she winced and buried her head between her knees, shivering.  “You are safe now,” he cooed. “We are the police. No one is going to hurt you anymore.”  But, instead of relaxing, her six-year-old, emaciated frame shook even more noticeably. Every officer

George plopped down in his usual place at the kitchen table. His wife watched in horror as he quietly opened a bag of aquarium rocks, poured them in a bowl, smothered them with honey and milk and began shoveling them into his mouth. “What on earth are you doing, George?” she exclaimed, lunging for the bowl before he could get another spoonful. “I’m eating

There were two prevailing opinions in the town hall meeting the night they voted to establish their historic museum. The idea was to house local artifacts and historical tidbits from the former frontier town, in the oldest structure in the rural town. Everyone agreed that the Elger homestead was the first in the area and that Roger Elger became one of the wealthiest men

In the eighteenth century, a German Physicist did something world-changing. He invented a scale of measuring temperature based on the freezing and boiling points of water. After some old-fashioned scientific testing, Daniel Fahrenheit settled on a scale that set 32 degrees as the freezing point of water and 212 degrees as its boiling point. He did not start with his preferences or opinions. He