Yesterday evening and all day today, I have been live-streaming “The Art of Goal Achieving” by the Proctor Gallagher Institute.
So far, it’s been a spectacular presentation … and we are not even half of the way into it.
It’s
Jacob’s ladder is a reference to a dream.
According to Genesis 28:10-17 [NIV] …
10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there,
Yes, faith provides for persistence which is key. In fact, Calvin Coolidge might have an even greater perspective on persistence. He is noted for this quote:
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is
So, coming full circle on this Original 13 of the United States, above is a more distinct idea of what each state claimed.
As far as why then, though Britain was giving up. France provided the backstop at the Mississippi
The American delegation to the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783, were from left to right are: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin.
Above is American Commissioners of the Preliminary
Above is a map which depicts the Louisiana Purchase which was signed on April 30, 1803.
There is plenty of treatment on this which I decide not to relate in this post.
What is important is to ask what happened
Above is a general map of the original 13 Colonies before 1763. Notice how boundary lines extended to the Mississippi.
There were some that didn’t. Those which had fixed western boundaries were Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Above is the painting Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull. At 12′ x 18′ it is the size of the footprint of my original office.
Yes, you’ve seen it before. An engraving of it is on the reverse of the
The principal of the platform which hosts this site – Lexblog’s Kevin O’Keefe – in reviewing Bill Gates’ End of 2018 Gates Notes post – pulled out a line for examination whereby Gates indicated that the questions that he is asking now
Imagine how much influence the four men above influenced the world.
“The Four Vagabonds” from left to right are Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone.
Ford remains not only synonyms with cars, but also with techniques of
