History
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Justice vs. Fairness | The Lost Virtue of Rightness
Modern culture has replaced justice with fairness, mistaking equality for virtue. Fairness belongs to systems; justice to souls. When moral order shifts from conscience to bureaucracy, compassion becomes control. As C.S. Lewis warned, a society without objective truth loses both freedom and virtue. Franklin’s justice remains liberty’s safeguard. Continue reading
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Happy Groundhog Day
On this day in 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, it gets scared and runs back into its burrow, predicting six more weeks of Continue reading
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Better sense of history: Billy Zoom’s list of required listening
Editor’s Note: Though Christmas is over and Santa is, no doubt, resting and preparing for next year, this list might make for a good goal for the coming year…to listen to history or build up your personal collection. Thunderstruck | Repost | – Billy Zoom, guitarist from X (According to Billy, this is only a partial Continue reading
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Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show’s producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead animator. The discussion concerned Schulz’s insistence about including a New Testament scripture reading of the Christmas story from the Bible. The scripture reading was to Continue reading
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C.S. Lewis and Military Service
Originally posted on Mere Inkling Press: If you were going to enlist in the military, which branch of the armed forces would you choose? And why? The choice would have great consequences. The simple fact is that despite their similar charters, not all branches are created equal. Your choice will influence countless aspects of your… Continue reading
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“Nessie” First Modern Sighting
1933 Loch Ness Monster sighted | History Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to Continue reading
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First modern Olympic Games – 1896
This Day In History | First modern Olympic Games – 1896 On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 Continue reading
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April Fools tradition popularized ~This Day In History
On this day in 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back Continue reading
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