Columbus Day
When Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain on August 3, 1492, he planned to create a sea route to India and China. Columbus took three ships Columbus was an Italian explorer. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who ruled Spain, believed in Columbus’s plan to find China so he sailed west with three ships: the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus landed in the Bahamas Columbus landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, but thought he reached the Indies. Most Europeans scholars knew the world was round European scholars knew the earth was round in 1492. They didn’t know about the Pacific Ocean. They believed that sailing across the Atlantic Ocean would lead them eventually to China and Japan. Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean again and...
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Americans had high work standards in the nineteenth century. They worked hard and took pride in doing their job well. The Idea for Labor Day No one knows for certain who came up with idea to establish a holiday for workers. Some believe it was first suggested by Peter J. McGuire, co-founder of the American Federation of Labor. Others say Matthew Macguire suggested it while working in New York as secretary of the Central Labor Union. Whoever thought of it, a committee of the Central Labor Union planned a demonstration and picnic in 1882. Working Men’s Holiday Labor Day was first celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City. Although the organizers planned Labor Day as a holiday for all workers, it was first known as a Working Man’s...
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Mrs. Moses Diary “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.” Exodus 14:21-22 (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, Pharaoh let us go after the last plague. Even the Egyptians were glad that we were leaving. We could have gone a shorter way when we left but that was not the way God showed with the pillar of fire and cloud for us to go. It led us to the Red Sea. Pharaoh must have changed his mind. His army came after us. The people started to panic. Then the pillar of fire and the cloud moved from in...
Read MoreThe Spies
Mrs. Moses Diary “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.” Numbers 13:2 (NIV) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, So we are off to the land of milk and honey with one of God’s angels leading the way and fighting for us. When we reached the border, Moses picked one man from each tribe plus Caleb and Joshua to go and check out the land. They were gone for forty days—the same number of days Moses was on the mountain receiving the Ten Commandments and the number of days it rained while Noah was in the ark. When they returned, two men carried a bunch of grapes on a pole between them. They also brought back figs and pomegranates. They described the...
Read MoreThe Golden Calf
Mrs. Moses Diary “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.” Exodus 32:7 (AMP) by Bonnie Beardsley Dear Diary, When Moses told me the LORD sent him down the mountain because the people have corrupted themselves, all I could think of is a little child covered completely in mud. Moses was so upset when he saw what was going on, he threw the tablets God had given him on the ground at the foot of the mountain. The tablets broke. He took Aaron aside to find out what happened. Why had he sinned so greatly against God? Moses had been on the mountain forty days. The people believed he died. Aaron blamed Moses because he was away so long. Aaron explained...
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