Sailors

Tom Cruise Given U.S. Navy Civilian Award

Actor Tom Cruise was awarded the U.S. Navy's top civilian honor for "outstanding contributions to the Navy and the Marine Corps."

Who was the Real Saint Nicholas? – American Minute with Bill Federer

"Eighty-six years have I have served him, and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?” --declared the...

Elizabeth I – American Minute with Bill Federer

When Henry the Eighth died in 1547, his nine-year-old son by Jane Seymour, Edward the Sixth, reigned for six years. He advanced Protestantism in England,...

Battle of Lepanto – American Minute with Bill Federer

News arrived in Europe that in 1570, Ottoman Turks under the command of Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, captured Nicosia, Cyprus, after a 50-day siege. 20,000 captured Nicosians were executed. Women and boys were sold as...

Christopher Columbus (1451-May 20, 1506)

Christopher Columbus (1451-May 20, 1506) was a Genoese explorer who sailed to America. After Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453, land routes were cut off from Europe to India and China....

Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage – American Minute with Bill Federer

Columbus was looking for a SEA route to India and China because nearly 40 years earlier Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 cutting off the...

Y.M.C.A. founding and Muscular Christianity

The founder of the YMCA was George Williams was born in 1821 on an English farm in Dulverton, Someset. Baptized into the Church of England, he described himself growing up to...

Race Politics – American Minute with Bill Federer

In 1857, the Supreme Court, with 7 of the 9 Justices being Democrat, decided that Dred Scott was not a citizen, but property. Chief Justice Roger Taney, who was appointed by the first Democrat President, Andrew...

‘Don’t Give Up the Ship!’: American Minute with Bill Federer

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...

Christian Nationalism? – American Minute with Bill Federer

There is a controversial new label the mainstream media is using, Christian nationalism? What is it? To answer that, there are three points to consider: The first...

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