WASHINGTON (AP) -- At one end of the 20-foot rope is Tessa Lightfoot, a 13-year-old American teenager topping the scales at 90 pounds. At the other, directly above her head, is a British-made bronze ...

A bell ringer had to be lowered from a dizzying 100 feet after injuring himself in the bell tower at Worcester Cathedral in the U.K. on Saturday night. Stunned worshippers watched on as Ian Bowman, 51 ...

My first memory of engaging in physical activity for any reason other than "play" occurred in high school gym class. Up to that point, the only exercise I did surrounded a sport or game. There I was, ...

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When the church bells of France or Italy ring out in the sparkling air. they are apt to sound joyously at random or to strike the lilting cadence of a set tune. But such lightheartedness seems foreign ...

This Bell Rope was made by William Houghton in 1974, he was my Boson in the R.N.X.S. He started as an appentice sailmaker on the "Themopylae" when he was aged 13 the sister ship of the Cutty Sark. He ...

So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

Long ago there was a king in Italy who was known for his goodness and wisdom. King John of Atri believed in justice, and so one day he purchased a great bell to hang in a tower in the village square.

He’s had this date on his mind for 50 years, and on Friday afternoon, Brewster Denny got a chance to fill that long-standing wish: To ring the Denny Bell at the University of Washington in the ...

My first memory of engaging in physical activity for any reason other than "play" occurred in high school gym class. Up to that point, the only exercise I did surrounded a sport or game. There I was, ...