Will rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash, was one of the greatest political sages this country has ever known. Enjoy some of the sayings discovered in his biography by Ben Yagoda: 1. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco. 2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. 3. There are two theories to arguing with a […]

By Robert Reed In the National Museum of American History in the nation’s capitol is a black and white image of a beautiful Crow Indian girl with doll in a traditional cradle. The photograph was taken in 1888. Like children everywhere, Native American children have loved to play with dolls over the centuries. In most cases such dolls for them […]

By Roy Nuhn A bit more than two centuries have passed since German folklorists Jacob and Wilhellm Grimm’s first volume of fairy tales was published in 1812.  A second volume followed two years later.  The stories quickly became literary classics. People, young and old, have fallen in love with the Brothers Grimm ever since. Today, the old fairy tales, along […]