All People that on Earth Do Dwell is one of the oldest hymns commonly sung today
Plus: The 30th anniversary of a series of devastating tornadoes, and the longest continually running play debuted 70 years ago this week
Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh shows Jefferson as a human being
Scottish English can provide some quirky lingo
John Hoyte follows in the footsteps of Hannibal of Carthage
Plus: remembering a German mathematician, and the death of an English chaplain
Jordan J. Ballor | We still have much to learn from the great Dutchman
Plus: a milestone for the U.S. petroleum reserve and the debut of a science fiction icon
Jenny Lind Schmitt | How a historical puzzle launched one man’s repeat journeys across the Alps
Two friends in Australia decided to start playing a sport from the pages of history
