Columbus set sail on his first voyage August 3, 1492, with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria. He explained how the Spanish monarchs approved his plan: "... And ordained…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856. He taught himself…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... The importance of elections was declared by President Calvin Coolidge, April 19, 1926: "The whole system of American Government rests…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819. Perhaps no one had…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... A "Father of Chemistry" wanted to evangelize America ... and warned of the end of the world! Robert Boyle was born January 25,…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days "the most brilliant in the world's history." After winning the Battle of Trenton,…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... In 1788, poet Robert Burns published an ancient Scottish folk song "Auld Lang Syne," meaning "in days of old gone by." A similar…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... HISTORY OF WRITING The invention of "writing" was around 3300 B.C. Richard Overy, editor of The Times Complete History of the…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently, At…
LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... The Renaissance of the 15th century led the Reformation of the 16th century, followed by the Scientific Revolution -- a period of…
Bill Federer