Revolutions of 1848 New World or in the more liberal European nations: these emigrants were known as the Forty-Eighters. Steven Brust and Emma Bull's 1997 epistolary novel "Freedom & Necessity" is set in England in the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848. Mike Duncan's Revolutions Podcast series covered the Revolutions of 1848 starting with episode 7.01. Revolutions of 1848 The Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, People's Spring, Springtime of the Peoples, or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history.
Year of the Bible state. Year of the Bible In the United States, 1983 was designated as the national Year of the Bible by President Ronald Reagan by , made on February 3, 1983 at the annual National Prayer Breakfast. President Reagan was authorized and requested to so designate 1983 by (Senate Joint Resolution 165], 96 Stat. 1211) passed by Congress and approved on October 4, 1982. The law recited that the Bible "has made a unique contribution in shaping the United States as a distinctive and blessed nation and people" and that, quoting President Andrew Jackson, the Bible is "the rock on which