After the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the concept of Christianity was in its infancy struggling to survive. Conflicts with traditional Judaism arose that lead to charges of heresy and persecution of Christians. These clashes were sometimes violent resulting in the death of the proclaimed heretic. Then a savior of a different sort emerged and brought
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Jack Daniel’s line of Tennessee whiskeys is one of the largest selling groups of distilled spirit beverages sold as whiskey in the world. What separates it from other competitor brands is the refining and aging process that was taught to Jack Daniel at an early age by a slave named Nathan “Nearest” Green in the
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During the War of 1812, the British Army burned Washington, D.C. in August, 1814, and attacked and plundered other spots in the same general vicinity. On August 28, 1814, in the nearby town of Upper Marlboro in Maryland, William Beanes, the town physician, was arrested by British Forces for assisting in the capture of wounded
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On March 6, 1836, an abandoned mission near San Antonio de Bexar in the Mexican state of Tejas that was upgraded to a military fort, was overrun by Mexican Army forces, and the 185 Texian revolutionaries inside were all killed. The siege that lasted thirteen days, and notoriety of some of the revolutionaries helped to
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The football season in America has recently ended with Super Bowl LVIII that crowned the National Football League’s champion for the season that began in September. The championship game was exciting being won by the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime and viewed by perhaps as many as 120 million people worldwide. Although injuries do exist,
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On January 10, 1776, a 47-page pamphlet authored ‘by an Englishman’ was published in Philadelphia. In three months, the pamphlet sold 100,000 copies to the two million residents of the thirteen colonies in North America. During the duration of the American Revolution, the sales number grew to about 500,000 copies including those that were not
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On January 16, 1919, the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of state governments and became the law of the land ending the manufacture, importation, or distribution of most alcoholic beverages. For the next thirteen years, this country went officially dry, but what actually happened as a consequence of
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For centuries European seafarers have been looking for a short, safe way to sail merchant ships to Asian ports in order to capitalize on the lucrative trade possibilities. The North and South American continents soon had their own trading possibilities, but to get to the big prize, these continents had to be circumnavigated. To sail
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In December of 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm by the Nobel Foundation. The awards were intended for the betterment of mankind, although the source of the funding originated in the manufacture and sale of war materiel. The following is the story of how these prestigious awards came into being. Alfred Nobel:
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On December 5, 1945, a flight of five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers took off from their base in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on a training mission that was to include practice bombing runs and aerial navigation over open sea. The weather was clear and the sea moderate to choppy. The afternoon flight left the Ft.
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