The American Flag – Decades in the Making?

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        Meeting in the Pennsylvania State House on June 14, 1775, just two months after the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress voted to create a Continental Army to coordinate the military response of thirteen British colonies to...

Who Was America’s REAL First Founding Father?

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      George Washington is often called the “Father of our country.” James Madison earned the title of “Father of the Constitution.” But is there such a person as the “First Founder?”  Is there someone who could actually deserve to be called the “First Founder”...

Do Eight-Hundred-Year-Old Documents Still Matter?

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   One of our social media posts and 250 Seconds highlighted the incredible historic parallels between the Barons revolt against King John in 1215 which resulted in the Magna Carta and the rebellion against King George III in 1776 which culminated in the Declaration...

Coincidence or Divine Providence? You Decide

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      If you were to type “probabilities of coincidences” in your search engine on your computer and sift through more than twenty pages of links to stories about “coincidences,” you won’t find a quick and clear definition.  The subject lines included titles such as...

To Pray or Not to Pray: That Was the Question

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        In early September 1774, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to consider a collective response to the British government’s coercive actions. A little more than a year and a half later, the Second Continental Congress would declare independence...