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How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 altered the Civil War - American Minute with Bill Federer

How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 changed the Civil War

How Lee's Lost Order No. 191 altered the Civil War - American Minute with Bill Federer

The same day, September 13, 1862, Union Private Barton W. Mitchell was drinking coffee and inadvertently noticed three cigars on the ground wrapped with a piece of paper. The paper was a copy of Lee's Special Orders No. 191 addressed to Confederate General D.H. Hill revealing his plan to divide the Confederate Army.

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Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America - American Minute with Bill Federer

Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America

Sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada & its impact on English colonizing of America - American Minute with Bill Federer

Why was the sinking of the Invincible Spanish Armada significant to America? Had Spain succeeded in their attempts to conquer England, there may have been: no Anglican England; no Puritans wanting to "purify" it; no Pilgrim separatists fleeing it; no New England colonies being settled, and, quite possibly, no United States of America.

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    Colter's Run, Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men -American Minute with Bill Federer

    Colter's Run Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men

    Colter's Run, Jedediah Smith & the Mountain Men -American Minute with Bill Federer

    Jedediah Smith "... In July 1828, fifteen men who were in company with me lost their lives by the Umpquah Indians ...
    Many others have lost their lives in different parts ...
    My Brother ... I have need of your prayers ... to bear me up before the Throne of Grace."

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    U.N.'s "high ideals" replaced with "growing disregard for UN Charter" with no Creator-given rights - American Minute with Bill Federer

    U.N.'s "high ideals" replaced with "growing disregard for UN Charter" with no Creator-given rights

    U.N.'s "high ideals" replaced with "growing disregard for UN Charter" with no Creator-given rights - American Minute with Bill Federer

    The President of the United Nations' General Assembly, 13th Session, was Lebanese diplomat Charles Habib Malik, who helped Eleanor Roosevelt and others write the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Malik stated in 1958: "Whatever these honored men think, the irrefutable truth is that the soul of America is at its best and highest, Christian."

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    The Space Race: Manned Space Flight & Faith of Astronauts - “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon”-James Irwin, Apollo 15 - American Minute with Bill Federer

    Apollo 15 The Space Race: Manned Space Flight & Faith of Astronauts - “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon”-James Irwin

    The Space Race: Manned Space Flight & Faith of Astronauts - “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon”-James Irwin, Apollo 15 - American Minute with Bill Federer

    Later, Astronaut James Irwin became an evangelical minister. Of his experience of walking on the moon, he stated: "I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before ... Being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact upon my life. Before I entered space with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, I was ... a silent Christian, but I feel the Lord sent me to the moon so I could return to the earth and share His Son, Jesus Christ." He added: “Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.”

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