September 22, 2011
FW: Unedited Version of “Home Alone” (1990)
If only Macaulay Culkin had really been warned!
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June 29, 2011
FW: The Amazing Life of Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was a remarkable man who began his learning very early in life and never stopped. If only all of us could be the type of individual Thomas Jefferson was. May his life be an example for us to be better citizens and people!
- At 5, he began studying under his cousins’ tutor.
- At 9, he studied Latin, Greek and French.
- At 14, he studied classical literature and additional languages.
- At 16, he entered the College of William and Mary.
- At 19, he studied Law for 5 years, studying under George Wythe.
- At 23, he started his own law practice.
- At 25, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
- At 31, he wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and retired from his law practice.
- At 32, he was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
- At 33, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- At 33, he took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
- At 36, he was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
- At 40, he served in Congress for two years.
- At 41, he was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
- At 46, he served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
- At 53, he served as Vice President and was elected President of the American Philosophical Society.
- At 55, he drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
- At 57, he was elected the third President of the United States.
- At 60, he obtained the Louisiana Purchase , doubling the nation’s size.
- At 61, he was elected to a second term as President.
- At 65, he retired to Monticello.
- At 80, he helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
- At 81, he almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
- At 83, he died, on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.
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April 12, 2011
FW: I think Michael Jordan Likes Root Beer
A screen shot of Michael Jordan’s Twitter page. He definitely is a fan of his root beer.
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July 2, 2010
FW: Honoring the Courage of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was a noted American aviation pioneer. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
Earhart was born July 24, 1897 and went missing July 2, 1937; twenty-two days before her 40th birthday. She was declared legally dead January 5, 1939.
On the 73rd anniversary of her disappearance, this post honors Amelia Earhart’s courage!
