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9/1 Albanian Heroes of Two Kinds: Skanderbeg & Mother Teresa

8/31 How Islamic Expansion from the East spread Renaissance & Reformation in the West

8/29 Faith of Famous Astronomers, and a church organist discovering a planet - Sir William Herschel

8/21 Scandals Ancient & Modern: "Ends" do not justify "Means"!

8/20 Washingtons Farewell warning of Coups to Usurp Power by Courts, Political Parties, & Deep State

8/19 "Victory of freedom over oppression ... over the forces of evil"-FDR, August 22, 1942

8/18 U.S. Law vs. Sharia Law - "The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law" -Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, 1955, Law in the Middle East

8/17 Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, & Republic of Turkey: Moderate "Kemalists" versus Militant "Islamists"

8/15 Blackstones Commentaries of Laws of England, Charles Finneys Gospel Revival, & "another gospel"--Liberation Theology Social Justice

8/14 "We will advance Christian CIVILIZATION or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism ... The choice between the two is upon us" -Theodore Roosevelt; and V-J Day in WWII

8/12 "America, America, God Shed His Grace On Thee ... from sea to shining sea" - All 50 States acknowledged God

8/10 Nez Perce & Flathead Indians, Missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, & the Oregon Trail

8/9 Korean War "Freedom is Not Free": Socialism & Global Capitalists vs. Democracy & Individual Capitalism

8/7 Second Great Awakening Revival "No person seemed to wish to go home - hunger and sleep seemed to affect nobody - eternal things were the vast concern"

8/5 John Eliot, "Praying Indians," King Philips War, & a Wampanoag preacher, Rev. "Blind" Joe Amos

8/4 "AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN" -Origins of U.S. Navy, Marines, & Coast Guard "We will carry on til Kingdom Come, Ideals for which we have died"

8/3 Why did Columbus sail West to get to the Far East? -- The Forgotten History of Umayyad & Abbasid Invasions of Spain, France & Italy, and the 700 year Reconquista

8/2 Pacific World War II, ramming of PT-109, & JFKs quotes on Freedom, Israel, Iran, & Faith

8/1 Herman Melvilles classic Moby Dick, 1851, and how a Hawaiian Missionary saved an American sailor from being eaten by cannibals

7/30 Cuba & the struggle to end slavery and be free!

7/29 Tocqueville: on Christianity in America; Islam in Algeria; & his seemingly prophetic warning on how Americans will lose their Freedom

7/28 Race Politics: LBJs BIG SWITCH from INTIMIDATION to ENTITLEMENT as means to control minority voters

7/27 â€œCast Down Your Bucket Where You Areâ€ - Booker T. Washington famous Racial Reconciliation Speech, & his warning against that eras Critical Race Theory

7/25 Joint Stock Companies opened Europes Age of Exploration & led to Englands First Permanent Colony in America

7/24 Napoleonic conquests led to Latin America breaking from Spain & War of 1812; with British attacks, inciting Indians; Madison called for prayer

7/23 Before CRT - McGuffeys Readers sold a Million Copies a Year for 120 Years! "The Ten Commandments are basic"

7/17 Bartolome de Las Casas -- Protector of the Indians

7/16 The Space Race: Manned Space Flight & Faith of Astronauts - â€œJesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moonâ€-James Irwin, Apollo 15

7/15 First Bibles printed in America, One even Authorized by Congress: "Bible teaching ... is ploughed into the very heart of the race"-FDR

7/13 Bastille Day, Reign of Terror, French Revolution "libertÃ©, Ã©galitÃ©, fraternitÃ©"

7/12 George Washington Carver, the Peanut & his Faith "Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets"

7/11 President James Garfield "If Congress is corrupt, it is because the people tolerate corruption"

7/10 Money, Debt, the BANK WAR & President Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle

7/9 CHOLERA: Plague of 19th Century, First Global Epidemic; Day of Fasting proclaimed by President Taylor

7/8 Ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a Symbol of Freedom

7/6 Not Black vs White Difference ?but Republican vs Democrat Difference

7/5 JEFFERSON & ADAMS - 50 years after the Declaration of Independence - they died the SAME DAY, July 4, 1826

7/4 Independence Day - "GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLDS HISTORY"-Ronald Reagan

7/3 Battle of Gettysburg: Turning Point in Civil War "I ... invoke the influence of His Holy Spirit to subdue the anger"

7/2 Statue of Liberty: "America ... a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race"- Ralph Waldo Emerson

7/1 Teddy Roosevelt, the Rough Riders & Battle of San Juan Hill; "Resolved ... the people of the island of Cuba ... ought to be free!"

6/28 Marylands Christian Founding: & What Happened Since?

6/27 Helen Keller "Self-pity is our worst enemy"

6/25 "The Love of Power and the Love of Money ... Two Passions ... have a Powerful Influence in the Affairs of Men"-Franklin

6/24 Colters Run, Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men

6/23 William Penn Lenape Indian Treaty, & Zinzendorf Moravian Missionaries, from Germany to Alaska

6/22 America: An Experiment in Self-Government & Voting

6/21 Lincoln Day of Fasting, two days later, Civil War took a turn... & "Juneteenth" celebration of Republican policies!

6/20 Fathers Day! "America needs heroes on the battlefield of everyday life" -U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall

6/17 Rocketry & Space Flight: Robert Goddard & Wernher von Braun-?"Vast mysteries of the Universe only confirms our belief in the certainty of its Creator

6/16 Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" States?

6/15 Magna Carta: History of Limiting Deep State Power-"Freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot"

6/14 FLAG DAY - "I pledge allegiance to the Flag ... and to the Republic for which it stands ..."

6/12 Cold War Tactics: Fifth Column & Critical Race Theory: "These trouble-breeders have but one purpose - to divide our people"

6/11 Government Intolerable Acts, Dr. Joseph Warren, & the Suffolk Resolves

6/9 Withholding Taxes from your Paycheck - When did it start?

6/8 "Old Hickory"-Andrew Jackson, a fighting General, fiery President, and founder of the Democrat Party during the Formative Era of the United States

6/7 Pirates of the Caribbean, Jamaica Earthquake, Port Royal Judgment, & Revival

6/6 D-Day, June 6, 1944, FDR "A Struggle to Preserve our Republic, our Religion & our Civilization"; Hitlers National Socialist Workers Party; Brownshirts used Antifa tactics

6/5 Six Day War, U.S. support of Israel & the empty promise of "land for peace"

6/4 Battle of Midway - A Turning Point in the Pacific during World War II; & courageous pilots Waldron, McClusky, OHare, Boyington, Zamperini, DeShazer

6/3 Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance

6/2 Grover Cleveland faced crises of late 19th Century: Socialism, Riots, Defending Marriage, Islamism ...

6/1 Navy Heroes: Jordi Farragut Mesquida (George Farragut), David Porter, David Glasgow Farragut, David Dixon Porter, Matthew Fontaine Maury

5/31 Memorial Day -- Honoring American Heroes of Courage, Sacrifice, & Faith

5/28 How Lees Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War

5/27 Clara Barton & the American Red Cross

5/27 Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Mountain Men of the Rockies, & fate of Buffalo and Indians from Railroads

5/26 Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race"

5/22 Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America

5/19 Samuel F.B. Morse Telegraph; and slavery conditions in early U.S. described by his father, Jedediah Morse, "Father of American Geography"

5/17 Aviation Achievements, Feats, Dangers, and Charles Lindberghs historic flight, & his aviator-author wife, Anne Lindbergh

5/16 Coolidge warned of Deep-State: "Bureaucracy ... overwhelms democracy ... having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody"

5/14 The State of Israel & The Ancient Hebrew Republic "America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and a democratic way of life"-Johnson

5/11 How North America nearly became NEW FRANCE: Verrazzano, Cartier, Champlain, Fort Ticonderoga, Vermont, Ethan Allen & Green Mountain Boys

5/11 Voyages that Changed the World - The Four Expeditions of Columbus to the New World

5/11 Irving Berlin & the classic song "God Bless America!"

5/10 Mothers Day: "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother!" - Lincoln

5/9 Harry S Truman role in World War I, in creating new State of Israel, & in warning of anarchy leading to dictatorship

5/8 Dutch Golden Age: World Maritime-Economic Power of 16th & 17th centuries, and the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam, which became New York

5/6 National Days of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln, "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins"

5/5 Cinco de Mayo preceded by Dos de Mayo: Spain & Napoleon; Mexico & Maximillian, JuÃ¡rez

5/1 Machiavelli, Alinsky, the Criminal Mind, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover

5/1 Roman Empire Persecutions "Early Christians ... carried into the Coliseum to make a spectacle for those more savage than the beasts"-William Jennings Bryan

6/13 French Marquis de Lafayette, "adopted son" of Washington, & other foreigners, who fought to give Americans freedom

4/30 The Louisiana Territory, the Haitian Slave Rebellion that convinced Napoleon to sell it, & Napoleons final spiritual reflections

4/28 James Monroe, 5th President "When the people become ignorant & corrupt ... they become the willing instruments of their own ... ruin"

4/27 Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties"

4/25 Fall from Vice-President to Treason, "The Man without a Country," Aaron Burr

4/24 Largest Library in the World - The Library of Congress, and Union Station in D.C.: Faith acknowledged in stone and art

4/23 Cervantes & Shakespeare: Two Writers who significantly shaped Western Literature

4/22 Trail of Tears, Oklahoma, Land Rush, Oil, & Cherokee Cowboy Will Rogers

4/20 Treaty of Tripoli & the Confusion About It Explained in Four Points

4/20 David Brainerd-Missionary to the Indians "Oh, how precious is time...that God would make me more fruitful"

4/18 William Brewster & How Pilgrim Covenant twisted into Social Contract, then Socialism

4/16 Hawaii Great Awakening & Missionaries to Marquesas Islands: End of Pele Volcano Worship, Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism & Leprosy

4/17 Insights of Ben Franklin: Printer, Postmaster, Ambassador, Author, Inventor, Scientist, and Founding Father

4/14 Noah Webster & his 1828 Dictionary: "The Christian religion is ... one of the first things in which all children ought to be instructed"

4/13 Jefferson on Jesus, Religious Freedom, Conscience, Government, Indians, Islam, & more

4/11 Apollo 13 "Houston, we have had a problem!" Nixon "When we learned of the safe return of our astronauts..."

4/10 The Salvation Army: William Booth & his wife, Catherine - "To keep quiet seemed like being a traitor to humanity!"

4/19 Right to Bear Arms: Lexington & Concord, Patriots Defense "To Disarm People is the Best Way to Enslave Them"-George Mason

4/7 Layman Prayer Revival, Evangelist D.L. Moody, P.T. Barnum Greatest Show on Earth, and the Third Great Awakening

4/6 World War I: Middle East Oil, Lusitania, Spanish Flu, & the story of Sergeant York

4/4 Booker T. Washington "Cultivate friendship of neighbor-black or white"; Martin Luther King, Jr. "We cannot walk alone"

4/3 Lamb of God sacrificed on PASSOVER-Resurrected on FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS - "I know that my Redeemer liveth!"

3/31 Battle of Okinawa-largest amphibious assault in WWII Pacific - "The Typhoon of Steel"

3/26 Black Missionaries: Lott Carey & Colin Teague to Africa; Betsey Stockton to Hawaii; John Stewart to Wyandotte Indians

3/25 Famous Black Preachers: John Marrant, George Liele, Andrew Bryan, David George, Richard Allen & Harry Hosier

3/24 Slavery, Ancient & Modern, and some Champions Who Fought to Abolish It

3/23 Patrick Henry - "Give me liberty or give me death"

3/22 Jonathan & Sarah Edwards, Schooling in Colonial America, and the Arch Battle: Whoever Controls Education Controls the Future

3/21 Johann Sebastian Bach & the Bible -"In devotional music, God is always present with His grace"

3/19 Battle of Lepanto, Spanish Armada, & Pilgrim Governor William Bradford

3/18 Apple History & Johnny Appleseed

3/17 Saint Patrick: "found Ireland all heathen and left it all Christian"

3/16 Lockdowns on Virginia Baptists shaped James Madisons views on Freedom of Conscience

3/16 700 Club interview regarding Miraculous Milestones in Science, Medicine & Innovation: And the Faith of Those Who Achieved Them

3/16 Eric Metaxas interview on Miraculous Milestones in Science, Medicine & Innovation: And the Faith of Those Who Achieved Them

3/15 Wording of the First Amendment & Who Twisted It

3/20 The Great Plague of London & The Great Scientist Sir Isaac Newton

3/14 Albert Einstein "I observe the Laws of Nature ... There are not Laws without a Lawgiver"

3/13 Womens Suffrage Leaders: Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Frances Willard, Emma Willard, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3/10 Admiral William Penn, Anglo-Dutch Wars & founding Quaker Colony of Pennsylvania

3/9 Battle of the Ironclads: CSS Virginia & USS Monitor-"Naval Warfare had been Revolutionized"

3/8 "Old Ironsides" USS Constitution - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., & his dissenting son

3/7 Henry Knox moved cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Dorchester Heights in "one of the most stupendous feats of logistics"

3/6 Blockade of Boston Harbor, Virginia Day of Fasting, & the "shot heard round the world"

3/5 Indian Massacres, British Quartering, & the Boston Massacre

3/3 IN GOD WE TRUST National Motto -Francis Scott Key, his anthem & his fight to free slaves

3/2 Some Anti-Slavery Champions from Quaker Anthony Benezet to Senator Charles Sumner

3/1 Articles of Confederation: The First Government in the United States & the Role of Religion in the States that Ratified It

2/28 Forefathers sacrificed their PROSPERITY for their POSTERITY - the "UNBORN MILLIONS"

2/27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American Fireside Poet - "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs"

2/26 Victor Hugo: Greatest of Romanticist Poets, his classic novel Les Miserables & his epic poem Vlad Dracul

2/25 Cold War, Socialism, & the Foreign Policy of Eisenhower & John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State

2/24 "Remember the Alamo-Remember Goliad": New Spain & Texas History

2/23 Panama Canal - cost over 100 American lives for each of the 50 miles across the Isthmus

2/22 George Washington Birthday - Presidents Day

2/21 John Quincy Adams: His Fight Against Slavery & His Faith in the Bible

2/19 Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missionary Movement, pioneered by Adoniram & Ann Judson to Burma

2/17 Professional Baseball Player comes out ... as a Christian evangelist! - preaches to 100 million in tent revivals and pioneer radio broadcasts - Billy Sunday

2/16 Jefferson & the Barbary Pirate Coast

2/15 Dark Slavery History & little-known stories of those who worked to end it

2/14 Saint Valentines Day

2/12 Darwin Day v. Lincoln Birthday: Born Exact Same Day - But Lives Had Opposite Effects

2/11 Peter Cartwright, Abraham Lincoln, & Final Farewell at Springfield, Illinois

2/10 Montesquieu: 3 Types of Governments & What Makes Them Work

2/9 William Henry Harrison: shortest term, longest inaugural, gravest warning

2/8 Who was Sir Robert Baden-Powell? His original vision for the Boy Scouts, & what has happened since

2/7 Frederick Douglass, Abolitionist Leader & Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln

2/6 Ronald Reagan: Faith & Politics, Warning of Socialism, Secularism, & "the tragic taking of unborn childrens lives"

2/5 Freedom of Conscience, Rhode Island founder Roger Williams & Wall of Separation

2/4 National SOCIALIST Workers Party: Body Parts, Gun confiscation, Arab Legion & Dietrich Bonhoeffers courage against the anti-Christian state

2/3 Sinking of the U.S.A.T. Dorchester & Four Chaplains Day

2/2 South of the Border: Mexican Revolutions

2/1 Julia Ward Howe - Battle Hymn of the Republic & efforts to end the slave trade

1/30 Would Democrats nominate FDR today? - A flashback to 80 years ago!

1/29 "Two Roads Diverge in the Woods ..."-Robert Frost, Four Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet

1/28 Around the World: Explorers from Magellan & Drake to Space Shuttle

1/27 Jewish Immigration to America: "Jews of the United States ... were free ... (and) prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862

1/26 Douglas MacArthur "It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it"

1/25 Robert Boyle-Father of Chemistry & Blaise Pascal-Father of Hydraulic Engineering

1/24 Patrick Henry, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, & James Madison: Freedom of Conscience & Free Exercise of Religion

1/23 Healthcare, Hospitals & History of Christian Charity

1/22 The Sanctity of Life - "The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion" -Mother Teresa

1/21 The Ten Commandments & the importance of a moral, educated population

1/20 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist Pastor

1/18 "Wall of separation, a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution"-Justice Potter Stewart

1/17 Daniel Webster "The Constitution has enemies, secret and professed"

1/16 Battle of Cowpens: a tactical masterpiece & turning point of the Revolutionary War

1/15 Jeffersons Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom: In Depth Look at Religious Liberty & How Courts have Taken It Away!

1/14 "Reverence for Life"- Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Africa

1/13 Fighting the Sultan to Founding Georgia - Eugene of Savoy aide-de-camp James Oglethorpe, and Georgia Religious Heritage

1/12 "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke, on the French Revolution

1/11 Early History of Yale College, & Its 8th President, Timothy Dwight, who exposed the Voltaire anti-Christian agenda for France

1/10 Bleeding Kansas, Uncle Toms Cabin, John Brown, & Beechers Bibles

1/9 Kennedy, Nixon on Castro in Cuba & USSR-Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics

1/8 Fort Mims attack, Battle of New Orleans & General Andrew Jackson

1/7 Revolutions: French vs American; & term of 13th President Millard Fillmore

1/6 "On the 12th Day of Christmas ..."-Epiphany, and How the Birth & Resurrection of Jesus changed the Calendar

1/5 Successful Black Entrepreneurs

1/4 "Smallpox is ten times more terrible!" - Deadly Diseases during the Revolution, & Dr. Benjamin Rush - "Father of American Medicine"

1/3 Battle of Princeton" "a military exploit of unparalleled brilliancy"

1/2 Patriot Women of the Revolution: Courageous Wives, Mothers & Daughters

1/1 First Things First: Religious Freedom-How Baptists influenced Jefferson on Separation of Church & State

12/31 Until We Meet Again, & James T. Fields The Atlantic Monthly - The Captains Daughter

12/28 Thomas Paine: From Patriot to Pariah, the only Founder without a grave site

12/27 The American Crisis, December 1776, by Thomas Paine

12/26 Battle of Trenton "Independence confirmed by God Almighty in the victory of General Washington at Trenton"

12/25 Christmas Day: Date revealed by Levite calendar & celebrated through the ages!

12/24 Christmas Eve through the Centuries "Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place"-President Truman

12/23 Sir Frances Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Astronomy, & the Scientific Revolution

12/23 WWII Battle of the Bulge during the freezing winter of 1944-45

12/22 Christmas Truce of 1914 and selected Presidential Christmas Greetings

12/21 Starving Ships & the Freezing Winter at Valley Forge, 1777-78

12/18 Hark The Herald Angels Sing - Charles Wesley

12/17 Famous Composers & Classic Christmas Carols

12/16 Origins of Christmas Tree, Lights, Poinsettia, Famous Carols, & White House Christmas

12/15 Bill of Rights: "restrictive clauses" to stop Federal Government "abuse of its powers"

12/14 Washington died: "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen"

12/11 Rasputin-The Holy Devil, Bolshevik Revolution, Socialist Russia and Solzhenitsyns warning to America

12/09 Watch PragerU "The Amazing Story of Christmas"

12/09 Presidents on Jewish Persecution in Eastern Europe & the State of Israel

12/08 Greed versus the Gospel: An Examination of Indian Policies

12/08 Hanukkah: The Festival of Lights, rededicating the Second Temple c.164 BC

12/06 Saint Nicholas & the Origins of Secret Gift-Giving!

12/04 PÃ¨re Marquette, missionary to Indians, explored Michigan, Wisconsin, & Mississippi River Illinois, Mississippi River valley, & settled Chicago

12/02 "Amazing Grace-How Sweet the Sound": John Newton, William Wilberforce, & the fight to end slavery in the British Empire

12/01 What led to the Emancipation Proclamation & the 13th Amendment?

11/30 Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad, his visit to the Middle East & his views on life

11/29 C.S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one ..."

11/28 Days of Thanksgiving: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Roosevelt, & more

11/27 Pilgrim Thanksgiving "God be praised we had a good increase ... Our harvest being gotten in"

11/26 Anti-Federalists-"Liberty depends on men being virtuous enough to make laws to punish themselves"

11/25 Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriett Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass

11/23 John F. Kennedy shot!-What did he & others warn America?

11/22 Kaiser-Sultan-World War I-Chaim Weizmann and the Birth of Modern Day Israel

11/19 Gettysburg Address "Of the People - By the People - For the People"-Lincoln

11/16 "My COUNTRY tis of Thee, Sweet LAND of LIBERTY," & how Patriotism is reverse of Marxism

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