Browsing: April 7

A Brief History On April 7, 1940, Booker T. Washington became the first African American depicted on a United States Postage stamp. A community leader among African Americans and an educator/advocate for equal rights, Washington was one of the last African American leaders to have been born as a slave. Digging Deeper Born in 1856 in Virginia, Booker Taliaferro Washington (in case you wondered about the T) his mother moved Booker and her family to West Virginia after the Civil War to reunite with her husband (Booker’s father), Washington Ferguson. Booker was a smart lad and an able student, later…

A Brief History On April 7, 30 AD, Jesus Christ of Nazareth was crucified in Jerusalem and died on that same day. Or did He? Digging Deeper The exact date of the crucifixion and death of Christ has been debated as long as there have been followers of Christianity.  Tradition used to claim 33 AD as the year of the death of Jesus, but this year does not reconcile with the timing of the death of Herod the Great, which is historically known, placing the death of Jesus in 30 AD instead of 33 AD.  This information also means the…

On April 7, 1945, the Japanese Navy sent the most powerful (along with her sister ship, the Musashi) battleship ever built on a one way suicide mission.  The incredible amount of man-hours, money, and physical resources that went into that ship are staggering, yet the mighty Yamato never made a difference during its short life.  This incident was not the only mistake Japan made during the war, so here are 10 of them. Digging Deeper 10. Underestimating the Soviets. Although the war was already lost, the few days of fighting between Soviet and Japanese forces were a vivid example of…

A Brief History On the heels of the Rafael Eduardo “Ted” Cruz victory in the Wisconsin primary, many voters may not be aware of his connection to giant financial institutions and the disastrous administration of George W. Bush. That connection is his wife, Heidi, the former Heidi Nelson and former Seventh Day Adventist. Digging Deeper Heidi Cruz has been an employee of the notorious Goldman Sachs financial giant, a key company responsible for the drastic economic collapse of 2008, and bailed out at taxpayers’ expense.  (Note: Although often referred to as “Obama’s bailout” the bank bailout was actually engineered and…

A Brief History On April 7, 1945, the biggest and most heavily armed battleship created by man was sunk without ever fighting another battleship! Digging Deeper The Japanese battleship Yamato was the first of a two ship class (Musashi was the second) of battleships designed to survive hits by the guns of British and American battleships, and to sink them with her giant guns. The 9 main guns of the Yamato fired 2,800 pound projectiles that were 18.1 inches in diameter, the biggest guns ever placed on a ship. By contrast, the German Bismarck had 8 X 15 inch guns,…