Contributed by Scott Carson on Mar 29, 2001
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On March 30th of 1981 when then President Ronald Reagan was shot in the left side of his chest by a deranged John Hinckley Jr., Reagan was rushed to George Washington University Hospital. When one of the doctors told the President that they were going to operate on him, Reagan, with his
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Contributed by A. Todd Coget on Feb 14, 2002
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Someone once asked Jay Kesler, former president of Youth for Christ International, if he believed that God could make a fish big enough to swallow a man.
As a college president and above average in intelligence, in a world in which we have learned to split the atom and go to the moon and send
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Contributed by Lynn Malone on Jun 13, 2005
One day, when Vice-President Calvin Coolidge was presiding over the Senate, one senator angrily told another to go “straight to hell.” The offended Senator complained to Coolidge as presiding officer, and Coolidge looked up from the book he had been leafing through while listening to the debate and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 21, 2005
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Former president Ronald Reagan once had an aunt who took him to a cobbler for a pair of new shoes. The cobbler asked young Reagan, “Do you want square toes or round toes?” Unable to decide, Reagan didn’t answer, so the cobbler gave him a few days. Several days later the cobbler saw Reagan on the
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Contributed by Todd Stiles on Oct 12, 2006
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One day Vice President Calvin Coolidge, while presiding over the Senate, heard one senator tell another senator angrily, “Go to Hell!” The offended senator complained to Coolidge, who, while leafing through a book, simply looked up
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Contributed by Scott Maze on Feb 15, 2007
Richard M. Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States.
He was a polarizing figure who won the presidential office by a landslide and then later resigned in disgrace just 21 months later.
His disgrace culminated with the Democratic party getting their man, Jimmy Carter, into the White
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In 1863 President Lincoln designated April 30th as a day of national humiliation, fasting, and prayer. Let me read a portion of his proclamation on that occasion:
"It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, who owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and
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Contributed by Jeffery Russell on Jan 17, 2008
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President Ronald Reagan one time told the story of when he was a teenager, he needed a new pair of boots made. In those days, you couldn’t just go to a shoe store, you went to the shoemaker shop. The cobbler asked the young man- “Do you want blunt end toes or pointed end toes?” Reagan shrugged his
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 2, 2008
Dr. Bill Bright, past president of Campus Crusade for Christ, tells about a man living in Western Texas. During the depression the man owned a ranch and raised sheep. Mr. Yates was struggling to keep al his bills paid and was in danger of losing his ranch. Then one day a drilling crew asked for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2008
I MET THE LATE DR. LARRY BURKETT, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF CROWN FINANCIAL MINISTRIES IN 1979 BEFORE HE BECAME SO POPULAR. HIS TEACHING ON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT TRANSFORMED MY PHILOSOPHY OF STEWARDSHIP, EVEN THOUGH AT FIRST, I THOUGHT HE WAS HAD LOST HIS MIND!! IN HIS BOOK: YOUR POTENTIAL FINANCIAL
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Contributed by Fred Sigle on May 22, 2007
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the battlefield at Gettysburg to dedicate a portion of that land as a national cemetery. The featured speaker of the day was Edward Everett, acclaimed as possibly the greatest classical orator of his time. A former United States senator, Governor
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Contributed by Terry Dashner on Dec 22, 2001
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The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9 August.
About 0200 hours a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on May 26, 2002
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AN HONEST DAY'S WORK
The USS Astoria (C-34) was the first U.S. cruiser to engage the Japanese during the Battle of Savo Island, a night action fought 8-9 August 1942. Although she scored two hits on the Imperial flagship Chokai, the Astoria was badly damaged and sank shortly after noon, 9
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