Of all the persons who followed Christ and promoted Christianity few had a more decisive impact than the Emperor Constantine who legalized the religion in the Roman Empire and helped bring the different tangents back to the same base. The boost given during his reign propelled Christianity to the forefront of Roman life, and later […]
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Vincent Van Gogh was arguably one of the most popular artists of the Post-Impressionist period in Europe during the 1880’s. He remains popular today as his style of intensity, broad brush strokes, and bold colors used to create over 2,000 works of art has not been matched. He painted 860 oil paintings, most of them
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It Began Earlier Than You Think: Legend has it that the American game of baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday, in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1836. It isn’t clear where this legend came from or when it actually surfaced, but the truth in all matters is that the legend is false. Abner
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Roman arches were constructed for purpose of announcing and commemorating a victory in a major military conflict. For six hundred years they were the ways and means to bring the victory back to the Roman people. But their original purpose began to shift along with the very fabric of authority in Rome. Celebrating a Major
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Most Christians throughout the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ as being on December 25 of the year. But looking through the Scriptures and other related texts, biblical scholars have had a difficult time in confirming the actual month and year of Christ’s birth, much less the actual date. What Year Was It? Herod
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Merlin the Magician appears in numerous texts written from Welsh and English folklore after the eleventh century A.D. usually connected with the King Arthur legend. He had special powers that among other things enabled him to see into the future. Scholars have put together profiles of the person from this literature, but in reality, who
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The holidays are coming up soon, and plans for the holiday feast should be forming up. If you’re up for a change from the traditional roast turkey, how about smoking a turkey on a charcoal grill. It’s easy to do, relatively inexpensive, and it tastes delicious. Here’s how it all works. The Grill: The best
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This is the second part of a previous blog from a couple of years ago explaining the fundamentals of short selling. With this we are going deeper into tools available for technical analysis required for good short selling. How Does a Short Sale Work? A short sale of securities takes place when the investor sells
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The fall classic is underway as the Los Angeles Dodgers face the New York Yankees for the twelfth time in MLB’s championship, The World Series. A championship game or series brings out the best in some athletes and the worst in others. The pressure of the event trickles down to every pitch, every swing of
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Edgar Allan Poe was widely renowned as being one of the first great writers of the horror genre. His work paved the way for many others to come along, even to this day. He lived an up and down life of victories and defeats, seemingly one after the other. As he wrote many mysteries, there
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