The Spanish Empire was the first empire on which "the sun never set," spanning over 5 million square miles around the globe. Beginning in 1492, with Columbus' attempt to reach…
One of the oldest civilizations is that of the Armenians. According to ancient tradition, Noah's Ark rested on Mount Ararat in the Armenian Mountain Range. Noah's Ark on Mount…
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8, 1974, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "... so that the cradle of civilization will not become its grave."…
Jews in Europe suffered major persecutions, such as: Black Death persecution, 1348–1350; Toulon, 1348; Massacre in Barcelona and Catalan cities, 1391; Erfurt Massacre, 1349; Basel, Aragon and Flanders Massacres; "Valentine's…
Slavery did not start in 1619. It began with kings. Whenever you had the first king on top you had slaves on the bottom. From the beginning of recorded history,…
Who were the first to champion abolishing slavery in America? -- The Christian settlers in Pennsylvania! Quakers, Pietist Lutherans and Mennonites went on record as being the first to oppose…
Beginning with the French Revolution, Napoleon rose to power in Europe. His soldiers invaded Italy and defeated the Pope's papal troops in 1796. In 1798, Napoleon's army captured…
President William Howard Taft had stated at a missionary conference in 1908: "No man can study the movement of modern CIVILIZATION from an impartial standpoint, and not realize that Christianity…
The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 pitted EVOLUTION against CREATION. Clarence Darrow was the attorney who defended EVOLUTION. Darrow had previously defended Leopold and Loeb, the teenage homosexual thrill killers…
Early in his career, Eugene of Savoy, under the command of Polish King Jan Sobieski, helped repel 200,000 Ottoman Turks on September 11, 1683, thus saving the city of Vienna,…
Bill Federer