We all know the good feeling we got as boy or girl scouts when we helped a little old lady across the street. Our cultural model has had us be trained to do a good deed every day, so by dinner time you might a frantic scout looking for a little old lady on a corner. Science now shows that that state of mind creates a long living, healthy, happy person, far above the average.

Wimpy's famous line "I'll gladly repay you Tuesday" was clearly a ruse and not ever to be trusted. Simply put, Wimpy had a burger addiction.

It seems the more fanatical that our specific version of God or Allah, the more bloodshed that just seems to have no end in sight. Why not just live a holy life?

Youthful honor scholar Archimedes from Syracuse in the Kingdom of Sicily showed his genius in great Alexandria when he solved the problem of how to lift water up from the Nile to irrigate the fields. Killed on a beach back home as the Romans took over, his Archimedes screw, which is not unlike a ferris wheel, lives on anew at a canal in Scotland and makes use of a Roman tunnel nearby.

The lifetime of Leonardo of the town of Vinci was a time of turbulence and violence, yet also the flowering of the great enlightenment of the Renaissance, which began all around where ever Leonardo seemed to be.

As the 1990s dawned, few industries seemed deader than cigar sales and manufacture. From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - the cigar had fallen into virtual moribundity. Its market had been conquered by cheap, ubiquitous cigarettes.

As Chariots Of Fire did for Eric Liddell and Braveheart did for William Wallace, the 2002 film A Beautiful Mind made mathematician John Forbes Nash a household name - without necessarily rendering his life, or his work, much better-understood.

Taking a looking at hotels as a potential venue for your wedding, including what questions to ask and what to look out for when searching for the right venue.

If you've taken a first-year college history course - or read through a basic history textbook - you may have noticed a small gap. It's only a thousand years or so.

A look at one man's unfortunate experience with a removal company.

Everyone loves a good local festival, no matter where it is at and what the theme is. Festivals are just plain fun. Everyone also loves a good meal, particularly when it is of a type of food that he or she has never had the joy of tasting before. If you mix the two of these great vacation aspects, what you end up with is the renowned Taste of Chicago Festival held every year in luxurious Grand Park in Chicago Illinois. This festival of food has become a grand tradition in Chicago, beloved both by the citizens and to those who were fortunate enough to have scheduled their vacation at just the right time of year to attend.

Outdoor vacations are very popular, as people simply love a nice outdoor scene. There's nothing like that sense of peace, of inner spirit, that one gets when staring out over a lovely blue bay of water or a sunrise as the glowing hot orb slowly rises above the horizons. Outdoor vacations are truly a thrill, but one has to give up on a few amenities when seeking the outdoors. The city provides things that the great outdoors do not, such as fine restaurants and five star hotels. Fortunately, you can have both in Chicago Illinois.