Axes, perhaps the first all-purpose tools, date back some 400,000 years, before the discovery of fire. Made originally from crudely chipped stones, the axe eventually evolved into the flint hand variety of the Old Stone Age, or Paleolithic period....

Don’t use an axe to embroider. (Malaysian) Little ax can cut down big tree. (Jamaican) The ax falls first upon a straight tree. (Korean) The ax forgets what the tree remembers. (Roman) The ax strikes the chisel, and the chisel strikes the wood....

The axe, or ax, is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, harvest timber, as a weapon and a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many forms and specialized uses but generally consists of an axe head with a...

Hip-hop veteran Skip McDonald brings dub to the Delta As resident guitarist in the house band at pioneering hip-hop label Sugar Hill Records back in the earliest days of rap music, Skip McDonald played on such classics as "Rapper's Delight," "The Message," and...

South Africa's white-ruled government refuses to learn. Within the last two months, two newspapers have been closed for allegedly stirring up trouble just when conditions are settling down. No one is deceived; South Africa is not at peace, and stifling voices of truth will...

It was reportedly scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it...

With no one ousted at the end of last week's charity-focused show, "American Idol" gave the heave-ho to two contestants Wednesday night _ Phil Stacey and Chris Richardson.The viewer vote tally from last week was added to this week's, with more than 135 million phone...