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- 1791: Billy Sunday
- ... full-time Christian work. He had played for different baseball teams and was sold to play for the Philadelphia Phillies. After being sold to the Phillies for a three year contract he prayed this prayer, "Lord, if I don't get my release by March twenty-fifth, I will take that as assurance you want me to continue to play ball; if I get it before that date I will accept ...
- 1792: Oliver Cromwell
- ... the Protestant Ascendancy. An Irish poet named Andrew Marvel described him as a "messenger from hell", but to the English he was a hero. After his brutal victories in Ireland and Scotland he was named Lord Protector. He rose to power in the midst of civil turmoil to make England a force to be reckoned with. The political schisms and financial problems of the Stuarts were overshadowed by his larger than ...
- 1793: The Rule of Halie Selassie
- ... was not a perfect one, but he did more good for the nation than bad. On November 2,1930, Ras Tafari, at age of thirty-seven was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I. King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Conquering Lion of the tribe Judah(Marcus1987) In conclusion, Halie Selassie ruled Ethiopia nobly. He looked for the betterment of his people, and the modernization of his country. He wanted the benefits of ...
- 1794: David Livingstone
- ... the militant tribe of the Matabele. On August 1, 1849, the Livingstone party came to the northeast end of Lake Ngami and were the first white people to see the lake. The presence of tsetse flies and the obstruction of a local chief prevented them from going the additional 200 miles north to meet Sebituane and so they retraced their steps with reluctance. They found the mission station destroyed by the ...
- 1795: John Trumbull
- ... with a different and sometimes controversial view of American history, especially the Revolutionary War period. John’s works include paintings of the “Battle of Bunker Hill”, “The Surrender of General Burgoyne”, and “The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia”. In addition, John was commissioned to execute monumental replicas of some of his Revolutionary War scenes for the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington D.C. These glorious paintings are but ...
- 1796: Oral Roberts
- ... was a roadblock to his ambitions. He resented the fact that his parents’ made him attend church and Sunday school. To him Christianity seemed repressive and confining, he ran away to get away from the lord. When Oral moved to the new school there was new success. He was elected class president, he was a honor student, editor of the school newspaper, cheerleader for the football team and a member of ...
- 1797: The Life of Jackie Robinson
- ... as a figure in history was a rock in the water, creating concentric Circles and ripples of new possibility. He was medicine. He was Immunized by God from catching the diseases that he fought. The Lord's arms of protection enabled him to go through dangers seen and Unseen and he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jackie's body was a temple of God, an instrument of peace ...
- 1798: The Life and Rule of Cleopatra
- ... approach of Octavia’s armies, but she and her two serving women and let down ropes from the windows and had him pulled up. Distraught, she laid him down on the bed calling him her lord, husband and emperor. He told her not to pity him and to remember the good times and then he died. When Octavian and his army reached her monument, she refused to let them in . She ...
- 1799: Elie Wiesel
- ... first few hours he learned of the crematories and what he needed to do to survive. He also began to question his beliefs in God . He said “ Why should I bless His name? The Eternal, Lord of the universe...What had I to thank him for?”(Wiesel 31). When they arrived at their barracks they were forced to strip and given new clothing. They also saw a barber and had their ...
- 1800: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... pray the heavens reward her husband, hardly a Puritan prayer. "Anne Bradstreet loved Simon Bradstreet and her children and God with a troubled realization that she fell short of God's, 'Thou shalt love the Lord they God with all thy heard'"(Blair 229). Anne Bradstreet's poetry shows a merging of the private life with the religious life, but also a rebellious, inquiring spirit. The heretical themes in her poetry ...
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