On this date (Dec 10) in 1520, Martin Luther burned his copy of the Exsurge Domine outside the Elster Gate in Wittenberg – a monumental moment in the Protestant Reformation. Before you say “Huh?”, the Exsurge Domine was a papal
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On this date (Dec 9) in 1944, my dad – Jack L Cunningham Jr – was born in Phoenix, AZ. Son of a western hottie and a sailor-turned-pipeliner, my dad was one of those guys who moved all over the
On this date (Dec 8)…
On this date ( Dec 8 ) 1993, the US Secretary of Defense made the Global Positioning System (hereafter known as GPS) available to civilian use. Back in ’57, the night after the Soviets launched Sputnik (the first man-made satellite,
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On this date (Dec. 6) in the year 346, Άγιος Νικόλαος died. His Anglicized name was Nikolaos of Myra, a Greek Bishop of Myra (which is now Demre – in modern-day Turkey). He became known as Saint Nicholas – the
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On this date (Dec 1) in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not punching a bozo in the nose… I mean, she was arrested for not giving up her bus seat for white passengers when ordered to do so by