Shakespeare was still alive when this Bible was published. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly after he ascended the English ...
Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...
This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Pastoral LifeThe circuit-riding Baptist minister Rome Wager breaks a horse on ranch land he leases at the southern end ...