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March 13: Christ the Redeemer of the Andes

For decades, Argentina and Chile had been locked in bloody border disputes. The third longest boundary in the world, the Argentinian-Chilean border stretched for 5,300 kilometers—much of it in unexpl…

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March 12: The Gutenberg Bible

On March 12, 1455, future Pope Aeneas Piccolomini sent a letter to his friend, Cardinal Carvajal. In the letter, he raved about the new Bible that was being produced by the German inventor Johann Gut…

Steemian of the week: March 9, 2018

# Steemian of the week:@lastdays # ### Lastdays is one of the most thoughtful and scholarly steemians that I have yet encountered. He delves heavily into tradition and theology. As a Jewish Christian…

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March 9: The Amistad

In 1839, Spanish slave traders herded a group of kidnapped Africans onto the Amistad and set course for the slave markets of Cuba. As the Amistad neared its destination, the Africans broke free and s…

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March 8: February Revolution

March 8, marks the start of the February Revolution of 1917. Russian society at the turn of the century was marked by horrific inequality. there was corruption and superiority ingrained in every corn…

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March 7: Anabaptists

On March 7, 1526, the council of Zurich passed an edict that declared adult baptism to be punishable by death. Zurich had been a center for religious reformation—a movement led by Ulrich Zwingli. Thi…