Albert Schweitzer was born January 14, 1875, in a village in Alsace, Germany.
The son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor, he won acclaim at playing the organ.
He...
A video of U.S. President Joe Biden attending a D-Day commemoration celebration in Normandy, France, has gone viral.
The video shows Biden on stage with...
After World War I, Germany's economy suffered from depression and a devaluation of their currency.
On January 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany by promising hope and universal...
Spanish and French farmers have blocked roads along their mutual border through the Pyrenees mountains this week in protest of environmental policies just ahead of the upcoming EU elections.
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
Among the many U.S. Navy and Marine heroes confronting Tripoli's Muslim Barbary pirates was Captain James Lawrence.
In 1804, Captain Lawrence was second-in-command, under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, of an expedition...
Do you know America’s tradition of Days of Prayer?
In Alexander Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims, (Boston, 1841), Edward Winslow recounted:
“Drought and the like … moved...
