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Pro-Life Feminist
Date: Oct 31, 2008
Feminists embrace Susan B. Anthony for her role in the women’s rights movement during the 19th century. She published The Revolution, a journal that promoted women’s and African American’s right to suffrage.
The Bee-Keeping Clergyman
Date: Oct 30, 2008
Lorenzo Langstroth’s childhood curiosity of observing insects stayed with him as an adult. The Yale graduate, minister, and teacher took up beekeeping as a distraction from his bouts of depression. The beekeeping industry was revolutionized ...
The Forgotten History of Superman
Date: Oct 29, 2008
Superman is an American icon. He is probably one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world. The Superman franchise is a multi-million dollar enterprise. Everything from comic books and movies to Halloween costumes and lunch boxes and ...
The Big Pox
Date: Oct 28, 2008
The smallpox virus had its greatest impact on the Indian populations in what is now Central and South America. Some historians have theorized that “it was not Cortez’ soldiers but smallpox that conquered the kingdom of the Aztecs in ...
The "Mick" and the Gospel
Date: Oct 27, 2008
Baseball great Mickey Mantle played hard both on and off the field. The belief that he would die young like his father may have led to Mantle’s failure to take care of himself. In the early 1990s, Mantle entered a clinic to combat ...
Stump the Preacherman
Date: Oct 25, 2008
Gary uncovers the latest news from the Middle East and the terrorist agenda of the Muslim world. Gary contrasts this to recent history of America's presidents and their relationships to the Middle East. "The Muslims could take over the world ...
Little Goody Toe-Shoes
Date: Oct 24, 2008
No one wants to be called a “goody two-shoesâ€â€”someone who is prudish and self-righteous. But years ago American colonists considered the term “goody two-shoes†a compliment. The colonists believed that good literature ...
The Detroit of the South
Date: Oct 23, 2008
“In 1921, automotive tycoon Henry Ford, accompanied by Thomas Edison, came to Muscle Shoals with a vision of transforming this area into a metropolis. ‘I will employ one million workers at Muscle Shoals and I will build a city 75 miles ...
An Infidel Experiment
Date: Oct 22, 2008
Was the title of an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of May 2, 1885, written about the city Liberal, Missouri. Creating “a town without a church, where unbelievers could bring up their children without religious training,†and ...
Saviors from Space
Date: Oct 21, 2008
Science fiction movies have always done well at the box office. Probably the most noteworthy is The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), adapted from the 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" written by Harry Bates. Like so many movies ...
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