A descendant of Protestant Reformer John Knox, Witherspoon was educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and afterwards served as a Presbyterian pastor.
His writings brought him to the attention...
When Clara Barton was ten-years-old, her older brother, David, fell off the roof of a barn during barn-raising in Massachusetts.
The doctors had given up hope on him, but Clara helped...
The Byzantine Empire's School of Nisibis, founded in the 4th century, sometimes referred to as the world's first university, was a Christian center of scientific and medical learning, located in...
In 220 AD, the Later Eastern Han Dynasty extended sections of the Great Wall of China along the Mongolian border.This made it harder for the Huns to attack into China, so they turned...
Ronald Reagan was born February 6, 1911.
A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he worked as a life guard, having 77 rescues.
He then announced for...
The French and Indian War ended in 1763 with the French forced to cede to the British all of Canada and the land from the Appalachian Mountains west to the Mississippi River.
The French had cultivated...
