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"Most persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing too little, than by believing too much."
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“ALL that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” This famous quote was from British statesman Edmund Burke, who was born JANUARY 12, 1729. He was considered the most influential orator in
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John 3:16-18, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not the Son into the world to condemn the world, but
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When the First World War began, British women suffragists sent an Open Christmas Letter “To the Women of Germany and Austria” imploring peace as the first Christmas of the war approached. Pope Benedict XV, December 7,
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Just six weeks after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Harvard President Samuel Langdon, MAY 31, 1775, spoke to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Samuel Langdon’s address was titled “Government Corrupted By
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There were ten major persecutions of Christians in the first three centuries: 1) Nero A.D. 54-68; 2) Domition A.D. 81- 96; 3) Trajan A.D. 98-117; 4) Antoninus Pius & Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A.D. 138-180; 5) Severus A.D. 193
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On APRIL 15, 1865, President Lincoln died. He was shot the night before in Ford’s Theater. On APRIL 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. It struck an iceberg the night before. Among the 1,514 lives lost were millionaires John
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His death went unnoticed, as he died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot. His books are some of the most widely read in English literature, with over 200 million sold worldwide. Nearly 50 years after his death, his books
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“I have not yet begun to fight!” shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the 50-gun British frigate HMS Serapis taunted him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons scraped and masts entangled, yet his
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On the third of his four voyages, Columbus sailed south along the west coast of Africa before heading west across the Atlantic Ocean. Then he was caught in the doldrums, a notorious condition of no winds and intense heat. After
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