No other industry has as many new products as the book business. In the United States more than one million books are published annually, including about 600,000 that are self-published. Book sales in this country peaked in 2007 and since then are down almost 40 per...
Icebergs are formed when huge chunks of fresh water glaciers break off into an ocean. They are commonly found in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. Roughly 10% of an iceberg’s volume can be seen above the ocean surface with most of the ice submerged below the...
Born Christmas Day 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts, and referred to by her parents as their “Christmas Angel” she would later be known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” The youngest of five children, it was apparent from an early age that Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who...
It was midnight, and 13-year-old Jimmy Wayne Barber was sitting alone in the bus station in Pensacola, Florida. Before leaving with her latest boyfriend, his mother had given him money and told him to buy a ticket to his 14-year-old married sister’s house in Gastonia,...
Nocona, Texas, population 3,033, was once the “Leather Goods Center of the Southwest.” The two-stoplight town, located about 100 miles northwest of Dallas, has been home to a number of boot and belt companies dating back to the cattle drives 150 years ago. Most of the...