Today's American Minute

Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer

Companies Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer Indonesian Nutmeg Island traded for Manhattan Spice Trade Stock Market Volcanos

Spice Trade, Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Indonesian Nutmeg Island exchanged for Manhattan, Volcanos, Dutch Religious Tolerance - American Minute with Bill Federer

The Dutch gained control over Indonesia while the British gained control of India.

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Joint Stock Companies financed English Exploration & the Founding of the Colony of Virginia - American Minute with Bill Federer

and Enland's First Permanent Colony in America - American Minute with Bill Federer Joint Stock Companies funded Europe's Age of Exploration

Joint Stock Companies financed English Exploration & the Founding of the Colony of Virginia - American Minute with Bill Federer

After the Reformation, Protestant countries formed the first "joint–stock" companies. A joint–stock company was much like modern-day crowd–sourcing or crowd–funding. Any individual could invest in a ship sailing to the Far East in search of spices, and when the ship returned, investors received a profit.

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Veterans Day "In test & trial, we instinctively turn to God for courage"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

Veterans Day "In time of test and trial we instinctively turn to God for new courage and peace of mind"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

Veterans Day "In test & trial, we instinctively turn to God for courage"-Eisenhower - American Minute with Bill Federer

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962: "The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image ..."

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Captain John Smith fought Turks - American Minute with Bill Federer

Captain John Smith fought Turks - American Minute with Bill Federer

Six years before he came to America, Captain John Smith joined the Austrian forces and fought in the “Long War” against the Muslim Ottoman Turks invading Hungary.

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Luther & Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding - American Minute with Bill Federer

Luther & the Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding

Luther & Protestant Reformation's Political Repercussions on America's Founding - American Minute with Bill Federer

British Statesman Edmund Burke addressed Parliament, 1775: "All Protestantism ... is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."

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