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For decades, Argentina and Chile had been locked in bloody border disputes. The third longest boundary in the world, the Argentinian-Chilean border stretched for 5,300 kilometers—much of it in unexplored

On March 12, 1455, future Pope Aeneas Piccolomini sent a letter to his friend, Cardinal Carvajal. In the letter, he raved about the new Bible that was being produced by the German inventor Johann Gutenberg.

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In 1839, Spanish slave traders herded a group of kidnapped Africans onto the Amistad and set course for the slave markets of Cuba. As the Amistad neared its destination, the Africans broke free and staged

March 8, marks the start of the February Revolution of 1917. Russian society at the turn of the century was marked by horrific inequality. there was corruption and superiority ingrained in every corner

On March 7, 1526, the council of Zurich passed an edict that declared adult baptism to be punishable by death. Zurich had been a center for religious reformation—a movement led by Ulrich Zwingli. This

There is a strong and growing Christian community on Steemit—the “steemchurch” as we call ourselves. I’ve benefited greatly from engaging with you guys. I want to give back to this group by promoting excellent

It was March 6, 1831, and Charles Grandison Finney was concluding one of the most successful revivals in the history of Christianity. Finney was a 29-year-old lawyer when he disappeared into a New York

The Edict of Restitution of 1618 demanded that the protestant leaders return their lands to Roman Catholic rule. When Germany refused to give in to the Holy Roman Empire, they faced war once again. The

Several friends and I put together this original song. I wrote a lot of the lyrics, but the composition was a team effort. I played bass guitar in the song. It is about the transformation and new life

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On March 2, 1807, the international slave trade was abolished by the American government. Up till that time, an estimated 550,000 African slaves had been shipped in and sold in American slave markets.