Stories

President Truman attended the Yalta Conference of the Allies during the Second World War. He found Winston Churchill very difficult, adamant and hard to convince of anything. On the other hand, he found Joseph Stalin of Russia very affable, friendly and easy to convince. Churchill literally fought before putting his

There once lived an Eastern king whose wisdom illuminated the land like a sun, whose cleverness was surpassed by no one and whose wealth far exceeded that of everyone else. One day a Wazir came to him with an unhappy face. “Great sultan, you are the wisest, greatest and mightiest

A caliph lay deathly ill on his silk cushions. The hakims, the physicians of his country, stood around him and agreed that only one thing could bring the caliph healing and salvation: placing under his head the shirt of a happy man. Messengers swarmed out looking in every city, every

There was a giant who was bullying and harassing the children in the village. One day, a shepherd boy came to visit his brothers and asked, “Why don’t you stand up and fight the giant?” The brothers were terrified and they replied, “Don’t you see he is too

There once lived a very wealthy trader, Alladin, in a village two hours away from Istanbul. Alladin had many servants. He was kind-hearted, treated them nicely and was loved and respected by them. One morning, he sent one of his servants, Mustafa to the market to buy a few important

The Sunday – school teacher asked her class to learn an appropriate phrase from the Bible and recite it as they were putting their pennies in the collection box. On the following Sunday little Lucas came up with, “It is more blessed to give than to receive,” as he dropped his