History isn’t all generals and politicians. Sometimes it’s a stray mutt or a pigeon with a mission that rewrites the script.

His statue still stands in Central Park ... After the war, Wojtek lived at the Edinburgh Zoo until 1963. Ham, a chimpanzee trained by NASA, flew aboard a Mercury capsule in 1961.

Today, let’s take a look at the reclining statue of San Francisco Xavier, which provides the devotional focus for this event, even though October 4 is the feast day of quite a different saint ...

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Jake & Jordan break down the drama from the wild mid-week Mets vs. Red Sox series. Plus, the guys check-in on who is in the lead for the end of season awards as we near the one-third mark of the year ...