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The Crusades to recover Christian Middle East - American Minute with Bill Federer

The Crusades to recover Christian Middle East - American Minute with Bill Federer

On Palm Sunday in 937 A.D., during the reign of Caliph al-Radi of the Abbasid Caliphate, ordered Muslim rioters to plunder the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.

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William Penn, Trial by Jury, Freedom of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

• William Penn - Imprisoned for Liberty of Conscience

William Penn, Trial by Jury, Freedom of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

Penn was locked up on London's notorious Newgate Prison, 1670, where he wrote: "By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind ... but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way ..."

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English - Dutch History of the 1600s, William Penn & the Quakers

English - Dutch History of the 1600s, William Penn & the Quakers

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... In 1571, the Spanish navy stopped the Islamic Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Lepanto. In 1572, Spain killed 10,000 Dutch Reformed in the "Spanish Fury" in Antwerp, Belgium. The English and the Dutch worked together to defeat the Invincible Spanish Armada in 1588. A Second Spanish Armada was destroyed by a storm off Cape Finisterre,  with the loss of 140 ships and 5,000 deaths in 1596. The next year, a Third Spanish Armada was also destroyed in a storm. Then a Fourth Spanish Armada was prepared.  This was the Nine Years War in...

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"Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862 - American Minute with Bill Federer

• "Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle • 1862

"Jews of the United States were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862 - American Minute with Bill Federer

In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: "We now have a few words of the Jews of the United States in general ... The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America ... They ... in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe."

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Tisha B'Av: Jerusalem destroyed by Babylon and Rome - American Minute with Bill Federer

• destroyed by Babylon • Jerusalem: Tisha B'Av • recognized as Capital of Israel • Rome • then after centuries

Tisha B'Av: Jerusalem destroyed by Babylon and Rome - American Minute with Bill Federer

Tisha B'Av in the year 587 B.C. was the day the Babylonians destroyed Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, and carried the Tribe of Judah into captivity.

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