On this day 496 years ago, the Augsburg Confession was formally presented to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V during the Diet of Augsburg.
Authored by Philip Melanchthon and approved by Martin Luther, the document served as the principal summary of the Lutheran faith and a plea for religious unity amidst the Reformation.
It continues to serve as the standard for confessional Lutherans today.
Finally a dream come true to be able to do the Meiji 38 impression correctly of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1906. Definitely a first to do this in the US at this level.
The LCMS under President Harrison has maintained one of the highest convert to cradle ratios in American Christianity, with 1 in 3 LCMS members being converts.
This number is substantially higher than that of both Baptists and Roman Catholics.
One of the greatest crimes of 20th-century fashion was the death of the cape.
For centuries, people looked at a cape and thought, "Hell yeah." Then modern fashion came along and decided everything had to be jackets, hoodies, and coats. Not even capelets survived the purge. And now if you wear one, people mock you for it.
God, I hate modern fashion.
I still need to improve this BGS impression quite a bit.
But basically, this is the 2nd model of the 1967 BGS Tarnanzug.
I know the soldiers bloused the trousers over the boots instead of tucking them in like on the previous uniform.