Martin Luther King's nephew addressed hundreds gathered in Atlanta on Monday and said that the inauguration of the nation's first black president is a step toward realizing King's dream of racial equality, but there is still work to be done. Isaac Newton Farris, who is the president of The King...
15. LHC The chances of the Large Hadron Collider actually producing a miniature black hole—or anything life threatening for that matter—are so small as to be minute. Like, crazy minute. As in, will probably never happen so minute. And even if the LHC does start producing tiny little baby black...
During the early times particularly during the time when people practicing a different way of healing apart from what the church prescribe, is labeled as a witch doctor. A witch doctor is the only person in the villages that is capable of performing healing rites and ceremonies and use herbal...
Oklahoma Wesleyan University is an evangelical, Christian university located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. It was founded in 1972 by the Wesleyan Church with the mission to “provide higher education within a Christian environment for Wesleyan youth.” The product of a series of mergers of various...
A sin-eater is a spiritual healer who is hired for the purpose of cleansing a dying person of his or her sins. A heavy and difficult job—usually taken by outcasts who had no other means of employment—it also carried the risk of excommunication. The Roman Catholic Church believed that sin-eaters...
Saint Patrick's Day is in full swing on Wednesday. Supporters of the long standing St. Patty's tradition are looking forward to participating in various world wide festivals, attending parades, displaying their green, dining on corned beef and cabbage, finding shamrocks, chasing leprechauns and...
Plato is widely known in the area of philosophy and politics. His works are widely recognized as some of the most influential in philosophical history. Plato was a philosopher in ancient Greece, several centuries before the birth of Christ. He is said to live in the 4th century or between 427...
Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in Florida whose Methodist Church affiliation has shaped its history and traditions. Located in suburban Lakeland, Florida, Florida Southern has been cited in the 2010 Edition of the Princeton Review as one of the Best 371 Colleges in the U.S....
Tennessee is a state with a very rich history and vast resources. Not only is Tennessee home to mountain ranges, lakes and plateaus put it is also often credited as the birthplace of country music and several well known historical figures. Below we've listed ten interesting facts about the state of Tennessee.
As members of one of the most reviled and sinister organizations ever to rise to power, the Nazis were the architects of many evil and disturbing plans. Genocide, medical experimentation on humans, world war; you name it the Nazis did it. However, while living in a ruthlessly efficient military...
