Hi everyone!
Hope this quarter / semester is going well for all of you. The big news here is that the application deadline has been extended until April 13th. That gives everyone an additional 2 weeks to finish up filling it out and sending it in. It’s hard to believe it’s almost April already. The trip itself is only 4 months away. Wow! Gotta start packing…
Click here to check out the website for the PBS Frontline / American Experience program “God In America.” On the site, you can watch the entire program, hear audio of American scripture, or do one of the interactive activities, like test your religious literacy. It relates to the American civil religion / Washington DC portion of the course.
Finally here is this week’s history timeline from the BBC:
March 22…
1765: The British parliament passes the Stamp Act, a tax on American documents that ignites revolution.
1945: The League of Arab States is formed with the aim of achieving complete independence from colonial powers.
March 23…
1919: Benito Mussolini founds the Italian Fascist Movement, a model for far-right parties across Europe.
1933: The German Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, allowing Adolph Hitler to rule by decree as a dictator.
2001: The first permanently-inhabited space station, ‘Mir,’ is destroyed as it hits the Earth’s atmosphere.
March 24…
1999: NATO begins bombing Serb forces in Kosovo, where atrocities are being committed against ethnic Albanians.
March 25…
1957: Germany, France, Benelux [Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg] and Italy sign the Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.
March 26…
1979: Israel signs a peace treaty with Egypt – the first Arab neighbor to recognize Israel’s ‘right to exist.’
TODAY, March 28…
1854: Britain and France join the Ottoman empire in the Crimean War against Russia, to halt Russian expansion.
1930: Constantinople is rename Istanbul as part of Kemal Ataturk’s campaign to create a secular Turkey.
