From 1714 to 1718, James Oglethorpe was a military aide under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy fighting to drive the Muslim Turks out of Belgrade, Serbia.
After the battle, at...
From the birth of the Church, courageous missionaries spread Christianity.
In the 5th century, Saint Patrick evangelized the heathen Druid tribes of Ireland.
In the 6th century, Saint Augustine of Cantebury baptized 10,000 heathen...
World War Two was the deadliest military conflict in history, with an estimated 85 million deaths, mostly in the Pacific, and Europe's Western Front and Eastern Front.
On the Eastern Front, one major clashes with National Socialist Workers...
President John F. Kennedy stated December 17, 1962: "Christmas ... is the most sacred and hopeful day in our civilization." For over 2,000 years, Christmas has been one of...
[pWashington lost the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, and was force to retreat toward Philadelphia.
Near the same time, British General Burgoyne's troops marched south from Canada toward Albany, New York,...
In 1788, poet Robert Burns published an ancient Scottish folk song "Auld Lang Syne," meaning "in days of old gone by."
A similar poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in...
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...
Frederick the Great of Prussia called these ten days "the most brilliant in the world's history."
After winning the Battle of Trenton, Christmas Day evening, 1776, George Washington's 1,200...
Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe.
Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...
Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens.
In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9:
"States are as the...
