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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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He was the only person to sign all four of America’s founding documents: Articles of Association-1774, Declaration of Independence-1776, Articles of Confederation-1777, U.S. Constitution-1787. Who was he? Roger Sherman. At
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“My beloved friend, keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into the realms of true happiness, where a religion of hate, (which poisons both body and soul) will be unknown,
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Selling a million copies a year for over 100 years, McGuffey’s Readers were the mainstay of public education in America. Generations of school children read them, making them some of the most influential books of all time.
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Gold had been discovered in Georgia in 1828, resulting in a Democrat-controlled Congress rushing through the Indian Removal Act, which passed by a single vote in 1830. It was signed by Democrat President Andrew Jackson and
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“THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are not the laws. They are THE LAW,” stated Cecil B. DeMille at the New York opening of his epic film, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Starring Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as Pharaoh Rameses