Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

History of the Christmas Tree

"Christmas Tree Legend has it that he used the triangular shape of the Fir Tree to describe the Holy Trinity of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The converted people began to revere the Fir tree as God’s Tree, as they had previously revered the Oak. By the 12th century...

Fore! Cosmonaut slices golf's longest shot

"Golf is an unforgiving game, wherever you play it. In tricky conditions this morning, Mikhail Tyurin, an experienced Russian cosmonaut wearing an overheating space suit, did his best to address a ball. He was strapped upside-down to the International Space Station as it...

Rare stamp may be sealed in Florida ballot box

"An absentee ballot was mailed with what may have been a rare stamp worth as much as $200,000 -- the famous Inverted Jenny -- but the envelope is in a box that by law can't be opened. Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom discovered the stamp while reviewing absentee...