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The Führer’s Immolation: April 30, 1945
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. In January 1945, the Russians began their last...
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Apr 23, 20213 min read
Antoine-Frédéric Accepts the Challenge: April 23, 1833
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Like all Europeans, Catholics in the 1840s were...
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Apr 20, 20214 min read
Luther and the Diet of Worms: April 17, 1521
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. Being excommunicated, Luther was given over...
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Apr 12, 20213 min read
Death Dance at Shiloh: April 6-7, 1862
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. It took over 400 vessels to ferry the immense...
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Apr 6, 20214 min read
Death Day of a Queen Who was Nobody’s Fool: April 1, 1204
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. At Henry I’s death, civil war engulfed...
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Mar 26, 20213 min read
Milan and Venice Expel the Austrians: March 22, 24, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Why was the imperial government in Vienna...
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Mar 19, 20212 min read
The Pope's Anti-Nazi Encyclical: March 14, 1937
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. For Adolf Hitler, the Catholic Church was the...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read
The Fall of Metternich: March 13, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. In only a few days, Kossuth’s speech to the...
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Mar 6, 20213 min read
Tippecanoe and Texas Too: February 28, 1845
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. In May 1836, John C. Calhoun said: “there [are]...
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Feb 26, 20214 min read
The Emperor Returns: February 26, 1815
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Almost immediately after arriving on Elba in May...
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Feb 19, 20213 min read
Slaughter in Saragossa: February 20, 1809
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. The Bourbon Carlos IV had been king of Spain...
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Feb 12, 20214 min read
Execution of the Queen of Scots: February 8, 1587
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations I: The History of Christian Civilization. Elizabeth’s one serious rival for the...
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Feb 5, 20212 min read
Conclusion to a Bootless Victory: February 2, 1848
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. It was September 13. [General Winfield] Scott had...
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Jan 29, 20214 min read
“Cruel and Barbarous Martyrdom” at Ayubale: January 25, 1704
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. In 1680, a band of pagan Indians attacked a...
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Jan 22, 20214 min read
The Pope Condemns a “Phantom Heresy”: January 22, 1899
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. It continues a discussion of the struggle between...
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Jan 15, 20217 min read
What Happened on the Way to the Opera: January 14, 1858
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. Emperor though he was, Napoleon III had to keep...
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Jan 11, 20213 min read
The Birth of One Who Loved the Wounds of Christ: January 3, 1694
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations II: The Making of the Modern World. I have been in great battles without ever...
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Jan 4, 20213 min read
The Cristero Revolt Begins: January 1, 1927
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. While Obregón, fearing to jeopardize his power, had...
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Dec 28, 20207 min read
A Christmas Present for Old Abe: December 22, 1865
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. On November 7, 1864, the day before the northern...
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Dec 18, 20204 min read
Congress Approves Prohibition: December 18, 1917
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise: A History of North America. Folks in Norfolk, Virginia had gathered to witness...
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Dec 14, 20204 min read
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