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Wilbur was 12 years old, and Orville was only 7 when their father brought home the strangest toy they had ever seen.
What is it, they wanted to know.
Their dad showed them how to spin this odd looking gadget, and make it fly!!
They made that toy fly over and over [...]
Even when Eli was a little boy, he loved whittling things from wood.
His father, Mr. Whitney, helped him learn.
Eli could whittle wooden whistles, broom handles, and even parts for his mother’s butter churn.
One day a new family with a boy just about Eli’s age moved into the house just down [...]
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It was four o’clock in the morning and Amos Jacobs was fast asleep.
Suddenly there came a scream from the front room where Amos’ baby brother had just been bitten by a sewer rat.
In those days, a rat bite almost certainly meant death.
That’s when Mrs. Jacobs promised in her heart [...]
Continue Reading →Albert Schweitzer was a very special hero in our world.
His whole life was about helping people and animals.
He believed that all life was a wonderful gift, that every living thing wanted to live, and that every living thing had the right to live.
He even won the very prestigious Nobel Peace [...]
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Little Betsy was born in the first day of the year in 1752.
Her home was in the colony of Pennsylvania.
You see, Pennsylvania wasn’t a state yet, it was still owned by England.
Our country, The United States, didn’t become [...]
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Little Freddy was born in Western Pennsylvania in the Spring of 1928.
His parents were very wealthy, and while they had nearly everything they could want, they were also very thankful for all they had.
They were thankful for each other, too.
Freddy’s grandfather would often say to him, “You make this [...]
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Once there was a little boy named Sylvester McCauley, who was picked on a lot, just because his skin was a different color from the bullies’ who picked on him.
Those bullies didn’t stand a chance against his big sister, though, and she often came to his rescue.
Her name was Rosa. [...]
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Life was hard for the Norris family in the early 1940s.
They were very poor and even as a small boy Carlos Norris had to work hard to help his mother take care of the family.
In spite of the fact that his family moved from Oklahoma to California, and then to [...]
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“On my honor, I will try to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people at all times, and to obey the Girl Scout laws.”
Did you ever say the words of that promise, or know someone who did?
If so, then you or a friend of yours [...]
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