Today's American Minute

Robert Frost, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet "Two Roads Diverge in the Woods ..." - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 28, 2024 • "Two Roads Diverge in the Woods ..."- Robert Frost • Four Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet - American Minute with Bill Federer

In a 1956 interview on station WQED, Pittsburgh, Robert Frost stated: "Ultimately, this is what you go before God for: You've had bad luck and good luck and all you really want in the end is mercy."

Panama Canal built by America at the cost of 100 lives per mile of 50-mile-wide Isthmus - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 28, 2024 • Panama Canal - cost over 100 American lives per mile of 50 mile wide Isthmus

Mark Twain wrote August 17, 1868: "The Panama railroad was an American project ... We took the train at Panama, clattered for two or three hours through a tangled wilderness of tropical vegetation, and discharged ourselves in Aspinwall (Colón). It is only forty-five miles ... it was a hard road to build. The tropical fevers slaughtered the laborers by wholesale. It is a popular saying, that every railroad tie from Panama to Aspinwall rests upon a corpse."

Hanukkah: Festival of Lights, Rededication of Second Temple c.164 BC - American Minute with Biill Federer

December 26, 2024 • Hanukkah: Festival of Lights • Rededication of Second Temple c.164 BC

Josephus concluded: "And so Judah and his fellow citizens celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the Temple for eight days ... They honored God, and delighted themselves with psalms of praise and the playing of harps. Indeed, they were so very glad at the revival of their customs and, after so long a time, having unexpectedly regained their right to worship, that they made it a law for their posterity that they should keep a festival celebrating the restoration of their Temple worship for eight days."

Christmas celebrated for over 2,000 years and Presidential Christmas Messages

December 24, 2024

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... President John F. Kennedy stated December 17, 1962: "Christmas ... is the most sacred and hopeful day in our civilization." For over 2,000 years, Christmas has been one of the world's most celebrated dates. Clovis, King of the Francs, was baptized with 3,000 of his soldiers on Christmas Day in 496 A.D., at Rheims, France, by Saint Remigius. The name Clovis evolved into Louis, which was the name of 22 French kings. On Christmas Day, 597 A.D., 10,000 Anglo-Saxons were baptized in England on the banks of the Swale sea...

Christmas Prophecies and Fulfillments "When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman ... to redeem those who were under the law" - American Minute with Bill Federer

December 23, 2024 • Christmas Prophecies: "Through Jesus Christ the world will yet be a better and a fairer place" President Truman - American Minute with Bill Federer

On CHRISTMAS, DECEMBER 24, 1946, President Truman stated: "Our ... hopes of future years turn to a little town in the hills of Judea where on a winter's night two thousand years ago the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled."