The Exiles return to Judah > A third group of exiles returns with Ezra Ezra 7:1-28 During the reign of Artaxerxes I (465-424BC), Ezra – the Minister for Jewish Affairs in the Persian Empire (and a scholar and Jewish priest) – is given royal authority by Artaxerxes to renew the…
Cyrus established himself as king of the Medes and the Persians. Among his ancestors was the legendary king Achaemenes, the founder of the Achaemenid dynasty. Cyrus later was killed in 530 BC and his son Cambyses became the next ruler of Persia, followed soon after by a new man named…
Every schoolchild in Israel knows the story of how Jewish heroes revolted against the pagan Romans, holed up in the desert fortress of Masada – and opted for mass suicide, killing themselves and their families, over capture and humiliation by Emperor Vespasian’s forces. Who was the leader of the Jews…
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, he was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionCommunist Party of the Soviet UnionThe ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union…
Born Christopher Dooley, Jr. on the 27th February 1989, in Shreveport, Louisiana USA, Hurricane Chris dreamed of becoming a rapper since he was a little boy, and dropped out of Huntington High School to pursue his dreams. Dooley Jr. Grew up in Shreveport being affiliated with the Hoover 19 Family…
She was termed Her Highness The Crown Princess of Sikkim and became the Gyalmo of Sikkim at Palden Thondup Namgyal’s coronation in 1965. Palden Thondup Namgyal was to be the last king of Sikkim as a protectorate state under India. Palden Thondup Namgyal (Sikkimese: དཔལ་ལྡན་དོན་དྲུཔ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ; Wylie: dpal-ldan don-grub rnam-rgyal) (23…
James “Tama Jim” Wilson (August 16, 1835 – August 26, 1920) was a Scottish-American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for sixteen years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913. He holds the record as the longest-serving United States Cabinet member. The longest-serving member of either house…
But the last team to integrate was the Boston Red Sox, who on July 21, 1959, 12 years after Jackie Robinson made his debut and three years after he retired added Elijah Jerry “Pumpsie” Green to its roster. What was the first MLB team to have a Black player? Sixty-three…
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Giacomo Puccini was another well known member of the great Italian opera composers. He was born in Lucca in 1858 to a very musical family full of composers. They were especially active in the music of the Cattedrale di San Martino. His opera Europa riconosciuta was composed…
Both of California’s U.S. Senate seats have been held by Democrats since 1992. John F. Seymour was the last Republican to represent California in the U.S. Senate. List of Governors of California. Gray Davis, the 37th governor of California, was the second governor in American history to be recalled by…