Posts Tagged ‘history’

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

I wish everyone a happy, hearty, healthy holiday with friends and family. Thanksgiving Day is a great tradition, one that I am glad our nation celebrates.

I’m writing this from my mom’s place in TN. I had a good drive down. It’s a 6-hour trip, but the roads were good and the weather was nice. On the way I listened to a couple audio presentations on CD. One was about the causes of the American Civil War (the significance of slavery, culture, political power, etc.), and the other was about how Christians in America in 1776 justified the war to split with Great Britain. Both were really interesting. I may write more about them later. (I had earlier finished another CD in the same series, about the relationship between Puritans and native Americans. I learned so much from that—history that you don’t hear in today’s anti-Christian, anti-European academic world.)

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1833 Leonid Meteors

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Just this week I was working on the design for the January installment of the “Our Heritage” series I’ve been writing for 3ABN World. This one includes a description of the famous meteor shower that occurred in 1833. It so happened that tonight I picked up the November issue of Smithsonian, and it contained a featurette in the “This Month in History” section about that very event! Talk about coincidences. Turns out that November 13, 2008, is exactly 175 years from the day that event occurred.

Hey Kids, Let’s Go Watch the Guillotine

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Today I was doing some research on the French Revolution, and ran across this article, which states:

For a time [during the French Revolution], executions by guillotine were a popular entertainment that attracted great crowds of spectators. Vendors would sell programs listing the names of those scheduled to die. Regulars would come day after day and vie for the best seats. Parents would bring their children. By the end of the [Reign of] Terror the crowds had thinned drastically. Excessive repetition had staled even this most grisly of entertainments, and audiences grew bored.

Guillotine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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Behemoth.com

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

The fine folks over at Vision Forum have launched an interesting website: Behemoth.com. I’m kind of a fan of Vision Forum because they have such cool stuff and high Christian values.

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Battle Creek, Michigan

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

This past weekend, July 25-27, I went to Battle Creek, Michigan, to do some photography for the “Our Heritage” series I’ve been writing for 3ABN World. Battle Creek is the home of the Historic Adventist Village, and there are many sites related to Seventh-day Adventist history in the area. So many of my friends and family and coworkers have been there, but I’d never been there to visit.

Providentially, my friend Diana was leading a group of Bible workers at Battle Creek, and she invited me to come. The timing was perfect, since if I had waited any longer, their evangelism series would have been over, and I would have lost my “inside connection.” Thanks, Diana!

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