In 711 AD, the commander of the Muslim crusaders, called "Moors," was Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad.Ṭāriq landed, with his 80,000-man Umayyad army, at a place where there was a large mount, for which the Arabic word is "jabal." The place took his name "Jabal Ṭāriq," or as it was later pronounced "Gibraltar."
President Coolidge’s advice, November 3, 1924: “… approach the ballot box in the spirit that they would approach a sacrament … When an election is so held … it … sustains the belief that the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation ..."-U.S. Supreme Court, 1891; President Truman wrote August 28, 1947: "This is a Christian Nation. More than a half century ago that declaration was written into the decrees of the highest court in this land."
Epiphany is celebrated on January 6th, which in Eastern Europe was considered the holiest day of the season. Western Europe, though, celebrated December 25th, the birth of Christ, as the holiest day of the season. As Eastern and WesternEurope could not agree on which day was the holiest, it was decided at the Council of Tours in 567 AD, to make all 12 days from DECEMBER 25 to JANUARY 6 "The Twelve Days of Christmas."
Chief Justice John Marshall commented May 9, 1833, on the pamphlet The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States written by Rev. Jasper Adams, President of the College of Charleston, South Carolina:"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified. It would be strange, indeed, if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not often refer to it, and exhibit relations with it.'
