Today's American Minute
Panama Canal - over 100 American lives lost per mile of 50 mile wide Isthmus - American Minute with Bill Federer
Canal construction has spanned history: Mesopotamia and India had the oldest canals for irrigation, c. 3,000 BC; China's Grand Canal, begun in the 5th century BC, is almost 1,100 miles, linking the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, being the longest canal in the world; Greeks engineered canals, c 400 BC; Romans built an enormous system of canals, pipes, tunnels, aqueducts and bridges, 312 BC-226 AD; Read as PDF ... MIRACULOUS MILESTONES in Science, Medicine & Innovation - And the Faith of Those Who Achieved Them Notable European canals include: Charlemagne oversaw in 793 AD the first artificial canal in...
John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion, His Lifetime of Public Service, Guided by the Bible - American Minute with Bill Federer
Guided by the Bible - American Minute with Bill Federer His Lifetime of Public Service John Quincy Adams: Anti-Slavery Champion
Jefferson & The Barbary Pirate Coast of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis & Tripoli - American Minute with Bill Federer
Algiers Jefferson & The Barbary Pirate Coast of Morocco Tunis & Tripoli - American Minute with Bill Federer
Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missionary Movement, Adoniram & Ann Judson to Burma - American Minute with Bill Federer
Inspired by Great Awakening preachers like George Whitefield, a Yale student named David Brainerd became a missionary to American Indians. Read as PDF ... He wrote in his diary: "I could have no freedom in the thought of any other circumstances or business in life: All my desire was the conversion of the heathen, and all my hope was in God: God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts." David Brainerd died of tuberculosis at the age of 29 in 1747. Though only converting...