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Oct 18, 20213 min read

Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie

Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...

Aug 30, 20214 min read

Aug 29 Faraday discovers Electricity

Today the great experimentalist Michael Faraday induced the first electrical current. Faraday would later use the principles he had...

May 21, 20213 min read

May 22 Papal Rome and the Trevi Fountain

Today the famous Trevi Fountain was finished by Pannini, and was officially opened and inaugurated on this day by Pope Clement XIII. We...

Apr 21, 20213 min read

Apr 22 'In God we Trust' and coins in the USA

Today in 1864 the Coinage Act was passed in Washington DC of this law, the phrase "In God We Trust" first appeared, on the two-cent coin...

Jan 30, 20213 min read

Jan 23 - The Netherlands Splits

Today in 1579 a treaty was signed by Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, and the province (but not the city) of Groningen which effectively split...

Jan 29, 20212 min read

Jan 16 - The Medici become the Pope's Bankers

Today in 1412 the Medici family agreed to become the official bankers of the papacy, which turbocharged their businesses across Europe. ...

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