Today's American Minute
Christmas Tree, Lights, Poinsettia, White House, Carols "I Heard the Bells..." - American Minute with Bill Federer
"I Heard the Bells..." Christmas Tree & White House Christmas Celebrations Carols Lights Poinsettia
Henry Van Dyke, The First Christmas Tree, 1906, of Saint Boniface - Wynfred chopped down Thor's oak tree: "''Bring the axes' ... they grasped the axe-helves and swung the shining blades ... A strong, whirling wind ... gripped the oak ... Backward it fell ... crashing as it split asunder ..." 'And here.' said he, as his eyes fell on a young fir-tree, standing straight and green ... Let us call it the tree of the Christ-child ..."
Syria - Will the Cradle of Civilization, become its Grave? - American Minute with Bill Federer
The words from President Richard Nixon's last public address, August 8, 1974, echo the warning to the present day: "In the Middle East, 100 million people in the Arab countries, many of whom have considered us their enemy ... now look on us as their friends. We must continue to build on that friendship so that ... the cradle of civilization will not become its grave."
Rasputin "The Holy Devil", Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, Socialism, Lenin, Stalin, Warnings from Solzhenitsyn - American Minute with Bill Federer
Warning American students of the realities of socialism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn stated in Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975: "In pre-revolutionary Russia ... there were attempts on the Tsar's life ... During these years about 17 persons a year were executed ... The Cheka - Lenin's Communist Secret Police ... in 1918 and 1919 ... executed, without trial, more than a thousand persons a month! ... At the height of Stalin's terror in 1937-38 ... more than 40,000 persons were shot per month!"
How did Saint Nicholas turn into Santa Claus? - American Minute with Bill Federer
CHRISTMAS DAY "The Great Divide for the Timing of All Events on Earth...where the Magnetic Needle of History stands Vertical and Points Up" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Susan K. Roll wrote in Toward the Origins of Christmas, 1995: "Saint John Chrysostom's ... argument follows ... that Zachariah was ... priest during the Feast of Tabernacles in the year John the Baptist was conceived. Chrysostom counts off the months of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, and dates Mary’s conception from the sixth month of Elizabeth’s ... then counts off another nine months to arrive at the birthdate of Christ."