Today's American Minute
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!"
PragerU video: The Amazing Story of Christmas
PragerU The Amazing Story of Christmas
Elizabeth I, Virgin Queen of England, and Religion under her Reign - American Minute with Bill Federer
Queen Elizabeth told her troops, August 19, 1588: "Let tyrants fear ... I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that ... Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm ... I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general ... Your valour ... shall shortly have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people."