Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will shew thee;
thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Psalm 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on
all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Here is a collection of random bits of history that are often lost
or untold in history books because of the bias of the publishers/writers
or because it was not known to them. Many interesting things are also
left out for lack of room or because they are not important to the writers.

 

"By the help of history, a young man may, in some measure, acquire the experience of old age." Lord Chesterfield

Great Hymn Stories  History of where we got some of our hymns.

Learning from the Battlefield

Legends of Rough Necked Bible Thumpers Great stories about real Christians, these will take the place of those worldly "heroes."

Mostly Useless Trivia about the 50 States

Recommended Reading List  Here you will find a list of books that  give the life stories of various Christians as well as general history books that are not the usual "party line" type.

Where the History Book Left Off

Other links:
William Wilberforce - Fighter of slavery by Biblical means instead of by "civil war".
Untung - The story of a native boy and what the Bible meant to him.
O.L. King  - The Price of A Coconut  A missionary story with a different twist.

A Russian Tribe That Escaped Communism

According to an Associated Press release dated 09-09-97, a Norwegian anthropologist named Ivar Bjoerklund has claimed that he discovered a tribe of forgotten nomads in Siberia.  The tribe of about 200 reindeer herder living in the tundra, do not appear in government registries and have no papers, therefore, they do not exist according to the Russian authorities.

Bjoerklund says, "These people have done the incredible.  They succeeded in hiding from Lenin and Stalin, Gorbachev and Yeltsin.''

The Nenster, as they are called, live south of the Novaya Zemlya Islands in the vast area of northwest Russia. They determined to avoid the Soviet government's collectivization when they learned that their children, along with those from related tribes, would be forced to attend boarding schools. Rather than lose their children, they disappeared into the Siberian wilderness to pursue their simple life of hunting, herding and fishing. These Asiatic people chose to do without modern medical help and Marxist education rather than give their children up to the Communists.  Many wear reindeer hide clothing and they guard their herds with wooden lances, but they have maintained their families and avoided the large-scale disruption caused by the Communist regime.

Isn't this amazing?

Someone needs to take these people the Gospel.
--MEV

 LINKS:

THE LITTLE KNOWN STORY OF THE JAPANESE MASSACRE OF NANKING, CHINA- 1937:  http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~ymasaki/NAME.HTM

THE ONLINE BOOKS PAGE--  Find an amazing selection of complete books from this site.  Some books are heretical, and some ancient trash may be found, but historical and spiritual out-of-print books abound also: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (In Edwards' Ministry)
By Jonathan Edwards:  http://www.dallas.net/~trigsted/text/Narrative.htm

THE HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO:  http://www.bbslaguna.com.mx/Conquest/
This is a secular writer, so use caution.

 background and graphics by Mary Stephens
updated 2019