“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.” Henry W. Longfellow March 26, 1969 – New Orleans, Louisiana: Ken Toole, a 31-year-old English professor,...
“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail, I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult… I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any...
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...
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...
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 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...
