A house of cards is a phrase with multiple meanings. Literally it means a deck of cards placed one at a time, each leaning against another, until the rising (and very unstable) results tower into the ...
Magazines are called periodical publications, or more simply, periodicals. Unlike a book, the same magazine is published over and over with new information between the covers with each new ...
We can all picture a dressy Ritz cracker, round, pierced with multiple holes, and boasting scalloped edges. However, there are also the Ritz Carlton chain of hotels, the Ritz Camera Store founded in ...
We all have faith. If we don’t believe it, look at these two examples. We get in our cars, drive down the highway at sixty miles per hour, and we trust other people to stay in their lanes, our ...
There are few biblical stories more memorable than the example of the Ten Virgins. However, to modern Christians, we can perhaps relate more closely to the Ten Lottery Ticket Holders. Or better yet, ...
A statistician deals with numbers. More specifically, a statistician deals with data and the numbers produced by that data.
Of course, the data the statistician works with is made up of numbers, but ...
Snakes are special creatures. From the earliest pages in the Bible, they are denigrated as vile creatures from the underworld, the very embodiment of Lucifer, the wickedest of those cast from ...
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on the planet. It towers so far into the sky that the air begins to thin long before climbers can reach its pinnacle. If anyone wants to become closer to God, it ...
To be flush with cash means to have more than it takes to meet everyday needs. Much more. It means we’ve got an income that is able to generate vast quantities of wealth, and to do it on a regular ...
People do crazy things. There is no illusion involved when swallowing a sword. Hot coals? They really are hot, and people do walk on them with bare feet. Tightrope walking over deep chasms without a ...
Several years ago Sony bet on a video playback system called Betamax. However, JVC rolled the dice on a format known as the Video Home System. Both were in production for a number of years. ...
In the 1849 California Gold Rush, many men became obscenely wealthy as a result of finding gold either above or deep within the ground. Even more men had their lives destroyed by the events of the ...
In 1938, Orson Welles had a brilliant idea. He took a popular book and turned it into a radio play, convincing many of his listeners that Earth had actually been invaded by Martians. He was immensely ...
