Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489-March 21, 1556)
Bill FedererThomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489-March 21, 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was responsible…
Hernando Cortez (1485-December 2, 1547)
Hernando Cortez (1485-December 2, 1547) was the Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico. In 1504, at the age of nineteen, Cortez came to the island of Hispaniola and was given a…
Hugh Latimer (c.1485-October 16, 1555)
Hugh Latimer (c.1485-October 16, 1555) was bishop of Worcester, England, during the reign of King Henry VIII. He refused to condemn Martin Luther's writings and strongly supported the Protestant Reformation.…
Michelangelo (March 6, 1475-February 18, 1564)
Michelangelo (March 6, 1475-February 18, 1564) was one of the greatest artists in history. The son of Lodovico de Leonardo de Buonarroti Simoni, he lived during the Italian Renaissance and…
Criss-Cross (1475)
Criss-Cross (1475) originated from the Middle English Christ's-Cross, and earlier, 1390, from Cros-Kryst, was the mark + or X written before the alphabet. This originated from the Greek spelling of…
Bartolome’ de Las Casas (August 1474-July 17, 1566)
Bartolome' de Las Casas (August 1474-July 17, 1566) was called "the Apostle of the Indies," as he was one of the first Christian missionaries to minister to the Indians of…
Voting: How America is an Experiment in Self-Government – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903: "In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government…
Armenian Genocide History – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Armenia's last Arsacid king was deposed in 428 AD, ending an independent Armenia until the rise of Bagratid Armenia in the 9th…
Spies, Leaks, Betrayal, Benedict Arnold “Enemies Foreign & Domestic” – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... The oath of military enlistment states: "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of…
Montesquieu’s 3 Types of Governments: Republics; Monarchs; and Despots who rule by Mandates & Executive Orders – American Minute with Bill Federer
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "Society ... must repose on principles that do not change" -- wrote Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Book 24. …