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Editor’s Note: in the following paragraphs, we present the first beginning of one of Thomas Paine’s most famous essays, wherein he describes the situation in America as he saw it at the
Isaiah 11:1-10 The Righteous Reign of the Branch There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of
In 1992, Patrick Buchanan interviewed his former boss, President Richard Nixon for CNN’s Crossfire. We have a great cut from that interview, located at the bottom of this article, and it is
There is the disturbing and utterly false idea that a Christian must always turn the other cheek, no matter the provocation. Not only is this false in both scriptural context as well
How and When Did the Cold War Begin? It is commonly accepted that the Cold War began soon after World War II ended, as the capitalist United States (US) and the communist
Why Did The Author Write The Book? This book was the result of Pirenne’s final years of research. His son states that Pirenne returned “again and again to his study of the available
Isaiah 2:1-5 The Mountain of the Lord The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain
What Is This Book About? Lynn White, Jr. presents the concept that changes in technology caused social change in medieval Europe (Roland, 574). This social change resulted in the rise of feudalism,
Or, How to Succeed When Everything Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong In Every Way Possible. Xenophon may have embellished a bit to cast himself in a better light and the situations direr, but
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