Today's American Minute
Christmas Truce of 1914, Silent Night, Presidents' Christmas Greetings - American Minute with Bill Federer
On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, an estimated 100,000 British, French and German troops near Ypres in Belgium along the Western Front, ceased fighting.
Beethoven, Famous Composers, and sacred Christmas music - American Minute with Bill Federer
& their sacred Christmas music Beethoven Famous Composers
Not only was Friedrich Shillers's "Ode to Joy" set to Beethoven's Ninth, but so was "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee," a hymn written in 1907 by Princeton professor Henry Van Dyke: "Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun above."
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!"




