Friday, March 13, 2020

Today in History - March 13

1639 -Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Satanic Services at Harvard University? by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2018)

1913 - William Casey, American politician, 13th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, dies (Source)

The following quote is from the book,  Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein:
"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff

Note: Bob Woodward is either a great journalist or a career intelligence agent. This book makes the case for the latter!
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1938 - Clarence Darrow, American lawyer and author, dies (Source)

Note: Clarence Darrow was the lawyer who defended John Scope in what has come to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, which sought to defend the now debunked theory of evolution. For a great overview of this case, listing to...

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1998 - Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer, dies (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Christianity and Physics, by Francis Nigel Lee
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"I'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned," - Physicists Richard Feynman (1918-1988)  - Physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)


How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)