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Download as PDF ... In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the third Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Reverend...

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address at Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1900. The description was recorded in The Booker T. Washington...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

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...

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...

Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Norma McCorvey, who...

Houthis of Yemen have been in the news for attacking ships in the Red Sea. A little geography is helpful. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run...

Chinese scientists uploaded a sequence of the COVID-19 virus to a U.S. database on December 19, 2019, two weeks before the virus was shared across the world, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

Amazon Prime Video has advertised a TV show portraying Satan and his demons as the protagonists while Heaven and angels are seen as the bad guys.

A former world champion pole vaulter reportedly died last week at the age of 29.