Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story? AUTHOR DANIEL WALLACE ONCE WROTE that “when a man’s stories are remembered, then he is immortal.” In the unusual case of Charlie Smith, while his stories may have fallen short of…
ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST recognizable television figures of the 1980s and ’90s, Bob Ross taught generations of Americans how to paint rolling hills and fluffy clouds on his show “The Joy of Painting.” Known for his perpetually permed ‘fro and rather soothing voice, the Air Force veteran used what he called his wet-on-wet technique…
The brochure reads, “The Rosicrucian Order is a worldwide philosophical and initiatic tradition that offers time-tested techniques for re-discovering the wisdom, compassion, strength and inner peace that already reside within each human being.” That all sounds good, but the message would seem a lot more serious if there wasn’t a statue of a saggy breasted…
