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56Refugee: Faith Tested & Tempered
Tom Petty's song "Refugee" is loaded with defiance. It serves as the catalyst for an exploration of doubt and angst raised by relational tensions. The essay is an affirmation that the vagaries of life test and temper faith.
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84James Oglethorpe's Siege of St. Augustine
This article covers the Siege of Spanish St. Augustine, Fla. in 1740 by British, Native American, and colonial forces commanded by Georgia's governor and founder James Oglethorpe.
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76How to write like Jane Austen: try the "ing" rule for Austen-like dignity and authority
I found a valuable-3-part writers' rule. This idea helped me. Apply this new three-part technique; you'll gain new authority. To explain, see below, examples from successful authors; Jane Austen and Australian author, Patrick White.
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74Eva Kor-Holocaust Survivor With A Message
Eva and her sister leaving Auschwitz Death Camp CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center - Home Eva Moses Kor was born on in a little town in Romania in 1934. By the time she was 9, her family was forced out of their house into a...
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90Egyptian God, Amon(Amen) The Invisible Creative Power - Hidden From View: Akhnaton, Moses and the Origins of Monotheism
Not knowing about the usage of "Amen" in our everyday prayer has led to may people not really knowing,or being ignorant of why is it that they use the saltation: "Amen". This is a powerful Name or word or salutation to utter through ones lips. Thus, it became important that a historical research be done and trace the name from its origins and that meant digging into remote antiquity in the past and contemporary times. The lifting of the confusion and myths about "Amen" has been treated with vari
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82The Sinai Covenant: A Nation Begins
Thou shalt have no other gods before me (Ex. 20:3) Thus begins the covenant that would unite a nation. From semi-nomadic traditions, a disparate people became conscious of their unity through the Sinai Covenant. These tentative beginnings would...
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91American Artists
Benjamin West (1738-1820) of Pennsylvania was the first painter to immortalize the martyrdom of a secular hero in art (see the neoclassical painting below). A close friend of Benjamin Franklin, he became the first American painter to appear in...
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84Ten Egyptian Plagues For Ten Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
A look at how the ten plagues that were pronounced upon Egypt by the Lord, through Moses his prophet, correspond with the ten popular Egyptian Gods of the time.
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75The True Purpose of the Pyramids of Giza
Carbon dating and other resources reveal how old the Egyptian pyramids really are. This suggests the pyramids were built long before the height of the ancient Egyptian civilization. Were the ancient Egyptians in essence the squatters of Giza?
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84The Main Events of the Book of Exodus
Exodus 1 The Israelites greatly increase and multiply in Egypt; Israelites are oppressed by a new Pharoah. Exodus 2 The Birth of Moses; Moses kills an Egyptian guard; Moses flees from Pharoah; Moses marries Zipporah, the daughter of Reuel...
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