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If you have a copy of The Story of the Great Frieze By Liberty Memorial Association (Kansas City, Mo.) · 1935 please contact me. The Great Frieze tells a story of one of the deadliest wars in history – that foreshadowed an even deadlier war to come – and that claimed the conditional Biblical promises that would bring blessing Read more...
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From Wikipedia: The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw Read more...
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2 Kings 25:27-30 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of Read more...
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From Wikipedia: From May 1521 to March 1522, Martin Luther stayed at the castle under the name of Junker Jörg (the Knight George), after he had been taken there for his safety at the request of Frederick the Wise following his excommunication by Pope Leo X and his refusal to recant at the Diet of Worms. It was during this period that Luther translated the New Testament from ancient Greek into German in just ten weeks.[4] Luther’s was Read more...
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English: A monument known as the “Dr. Livingstone Memorial” was erected to commemorate the meeting between David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. There is also a modest museum. There is a former slave route near the market. Photo Peter A Levey cc-by-2.0 See more pictures of the museum Read more...
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English: This monumental bronze entitled “Livingstone and the Lion” is at at the David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, Scotland. The statue was designed and modelled in wax by Ray Harryhausen and Gareth Knowles created the bronze from that. Photo by DeFacto Read more...
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Voltaire was one of the greatest skeptics in history. He declared in his own commentary on the Bible: “The subject is now exhausted: the cause is decided for those who are willing to avail themselves of their reason and their lights, and people will no more read this.” And what would happen to his house? “I went through Geneva, and Read more...
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Discovered by the adoptive son of Horatio Spafford The Siloam inscription or Shiloah inscription (Hebrew: כתובת השילוח, or Silwan inscription,) known as KAI 189, is a Hebrew inscription found in the Siloam tunnel which brings water from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam, located in the City of David in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiloah or Silwan. The inscription records the construction of the tunnel, which has been dated to the 8th century BCE on the basis of the writing style.[1] It Read more...
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General Wallace was never an atheist. According to his Autobiography, published posthumously in 1907, he wrote that he was raised in the Christian tradition but wasn’t a devout follower: “At that time, speaking candidly, I was not in the least influenced by religious sentiment. I had no convictions about God or Christ. I neither believed nor disbelieved in them.”…. It Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Minyuan Stadium, in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of Tianjin Teda F.C. until the TEDA Football Stadium opened in 2004. The stadium held 18,000 spectators. Eric Liddell helped build the stadium when he was a missionary in Tianjin in 1926, modelling it on Stamford Bridge of London, which was Liddell’s favourite athletics venue. From TripAdvisor: “Free – Sports Museum shows Read more...