News Articles by Alvin Reid

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Once upon a time (@ 1959) in a land called America there lived a group of people who banded together with a common faith, a common culture, and in so many ways, a common aesthetic. This group proved to be a growing population in numbers and in influence in the land of the free and the home of the brave. If you know much about them and their time you will recognize them. Here are a few shared features from back in the day:

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--“But now the world is changing once again. A new hour comes. Isildur's Bane is found. Battle is at hand. The Sword shall be reforged." (Aragorn) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Journey back with me two centuries to the beginning of the nineteenth century. If the networks reported on events in that first decade, the evening news broadcasts would have concentrated not on Britain or the fledgling United States, but on Austria. By 1809, the attention of the world would be fixed on Napoleon's army. His […]

Have you ever played cerebral torment? Try this one: Which is correct: nine plus seven is fifteen, or nine plus seven are fifteen? Okay, let's try another: by removing six letters from the following you are left with one word (English only, please!). What is the word? B S I A X N L A […]