On April 17, 1521, the German priest and Augustinian friar Martin Luther appeared before the Diet of Worms. The Diet was a gathering presided over by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in the Imperial Free City of Worms, located in...
On April 15, 1452, 572 years ago today, Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small town of Vinci, about 20 miles from Florence, Italy. We all know the da Vinci name—he was one of the greatest geniuses ever to...
On April 12, 1961—63 years ago today—Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to journey into outer space, completing one orbit of Earth before returning safely. Exactly 20 years later, on April 12, 1981, the first space shuttle—that...
79 Years ago today, on April 11, 1945, the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp was liberated by the United States Army. The camp had housed over 280,000 prisoners during World War II, and nearly 60,000 of those prisoners died there, either...
Wed 4/10/2024 8:07 AM 112 years ago today, April 10, 1912, the RMS Titanic embarked on her maiden voyage. Four days later, she hit an iceberg and sank. There were not enough lifeboats on board to save everyone, and so Second Officer...
Welcome back. I trust you all had a wonderful break. If you’re having trouble seeing me, it probably means you looked at the sun yesterday without the proper eyewear. Nonetheless, I’m glad you’re back. Over the course of the year,...
Wed 3/27/2024 8:25 AM Tom Holland, the author of a recent book titled “Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Changed the World,” who himself is not a Christian, writes this: “A myth, though, is not a lie. At its most profound—as...
A few days before he was crucified on the cross, Jesus entered Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover riding on a donkey. Have you ever thought of what it was like to be the donkey? Probably not—I never have. But G.K....
This week is Holy Week for Christians around the world. It began yesterday on Palm Sunday and will conclude on Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, this weekend. In her poem Good Friday, which is the day on which Jesus was crucified, Christina...
In 1862, under the heavy burden of leading a divided nation through the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, gathered his cabinet to discuss his draft of the Emancipation Proclamation—the executive order that would make 3.5 million American slaves free people. ...
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