"It was enough to melt a heart of stone," remarked John Adams after the First Prayer in Congress.
The First Session of the First Continental Congress opened in September of 1774 with a...
"The Big Switch" was NOT Republicans and Democrats switching places regarding race issues, it was the Democrat Party switching tactics on how to manipulate minority voters, by creating a permanent dependency on government.
The phrases "the bribe or...
The United Nations officially began October 24, 1945.Its name was coined by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The United Nations' charter was drafted in the Garden Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.
The Charter meeting did not...
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a woman arrested twice for praying outside of an abortion clinic, is to receive £13,000 British pounds from the police, or nearly $17,000 U.S. dollars.
In 1655, British Admiral William Penn, the father of Pennsylvania's founder, captured Jamaica from the Spanish.
As Jamaica was too far from England be defended, inhabitants turned to privateers, freebooters, buccaneers and pirates...
George Whitefield had attended Oxford with John and Charles Wesley, who began the Methodist revival movement within the Anglican Church.
In 1733, when he finally understood and believed the Gospel, George Whitefield exclaimed:
"Joy-joy unspeakable-joy...
Poles have a heritage of resisting tyranny.
In 1683, the Polish King John III Sobieski resisted the Islamic invasion of Europe, defeating nearly 80,000 Ottoman Turks at the...