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The Invention Nobody Wanted – Monroe Journal – August 2, 2018

The Invention Nobody Wanted – Monroe Journal – August 2, 2018

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2018 | Adversity, Perserverance, Persistence

October 22, 1938 – Small apartment in Queens, New York: Chester Carlson and his buddy Otto Kornei, an unemployed physicist, stared at each other in disbelief. After a year of experiments in the kitchen, several fires, and an angry wife, they had produced the world’s...
Fifty-Nine Years Later – Monroe Journal, March 16, 2017

Fifty-Nine Years Later – Monroe Journal, March 16, 2017

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 11, 2018 | Beating the Odds, Determination Despite the Odds, Persistence, Uncategorized

2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
Bringing Smoke Home – Monroe Journal, September 29, 2016

Bringing Smoke Home – Monroe Journal, September 29, 2016

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Feb 14, 2018 | Perserverance, Persistence

U.S. Marine Colonel John Folsom, the top-ranking officer at Camp Al-Taqaddum near Falujah, Iraq, was accustomed to waking up to the sound of helicopter rotors. But on this particular Sunday morning in May 2008, he was awakened by an unusual sound, “hee-haw, hee-haw,...
The Miracle of North Platte – Monroe Journal, January 15, 2015

The Miracle of North Platte – Monroe Journal, January 15, 2015

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 31, 2018 | Hanging on to Hope, Limitless Possibilities, Persistence

The week following the U.S. declaration of war on Japan on December 8, 1941, Rae Wilson, a twenty-six year old store clerk, wrote a letter to the weekly newspaper in North Platte, Nebraska asking if the local Union Pacific train depot could be converted into a...
Marriane’s Prayer – Monroe Journal, November 5, 2015

Marriane’s Prayer – Monroe Journal, November 5, 2015

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2018 | Perserverance, Persistence

After Dwight L. Moody preached at the New Court Congregational Church in North London in June 1872, a young woman went home and told her bed-ridden sister, “Mr. Moody from America preached at our church this morning.” Marianne Adlard, the bed-ridden sister, shouted...
Philippe Skywalker, Monroe Journal January 28, 2016

Philippe Skywalker, Monroe Journal January 28, 2016

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Nov 28, 2017 | Against the Odds, Chasing Your Dream, Persistence

In 1968, eighteen-year-old Philippe Petit was reading a magazine in a Paris dentist office when an article, a picture, and a dream captivated him. The article was about the construction of twin towers in lower Manhattan in New York City, that when completed would...
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