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Once upon a 17th Century, there lived a good Calvinist preacher, teacher, and hymn composer Joachim Neander. You probably know his most famous hymn "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" (German: "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren") published in virtually every Christian hymnal.

He was such a great man, the German people many decades later decided to name after Neander a whole valley ("thal" in German) near Düsseldorf where he taught, thus "Neanderthal."

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Richard awoke startled in his luxurious room, The grandfather clock struck 5 Am. Richard decided it was time to get up.

  He walked over to the window besides his King Sized bed, threw aside the red curtains, pulled the rope and opened the blinds. As he did the white sun shone brightly against the black sky, the sun that never went down, Richard pulled out his journal from underneath his bed and added another tally mark to the 6 that already lay there.

May 14, 1607: Captain John Smith helps to found the first permanent English settlement in the U.S. at Jamestown, Virginia. The trip began on Dec. 20, 1606 with the three small ships, the Discovery, the Susan Constant, and the Godspeed.