Beating the Historical Odds
Posted By: Imright, 6/9/2024 12:09:29 PM
I was about ten years old when I first learned about Joan of Arc, the 14-year-old peasant girl who, against all odds, led the army of France against the British in the Hundred Years War. I had checked out from our school library a little cloth-bound book (A Candle in the Sky) that told her story, and I must have read it a dozen times, she so fascinated me. Her audacity, her courage, her unwavering faith was both inspiring and horrifying to my young mind. I am now aged well beyond that point, and she still haunts me. On May 30th of 1431 Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
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Democrats Are Working Hard to Try and
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Fool Voters Into Thinking Biden's Age
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Chicken Giant Tyson Sells Employees Juneteenth
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