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Category: LLR Historical Examples
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We continue our series of "Featured Rascals," considering those who have had the courage to be different in order to make a difference, the character to become a character, and original enough to stand for truth and justice. I am sure everyone remembers this one. The protests had gone on for seven weeks. What began…
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My friend and co-author Orrin Woodward and I are at work on many exciting projects. One lingering work is the yet-to-be-completed RASCAL book, dedicated to rebels with a cause. For the next couple days on this blog, I will be featuring interesting RASCALS we have come across in our research. These may or may not make…
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Being decadent is easy. Evil is everywhere. It takes nearly nothing to succeed by cheating, lying, stealing, or selling to the profane nature of humanity. Violence, sex, anger, hatred, victimization, and escapism come easy to entertainers and sell easy to a crowd of nobodies. The fastest route to tinsel-town success, the empty kind full of…
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Leadership is an odd thing. It is better “caught than taught.” Still, authors like Orrin Woodward and myself still labor to teach it the best we can. Often, in the course of doing so, we call upon illustrations of leaders both historical and contemporary who have demonstrated worthy leadership characteristics. There is a problem with…
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Whenever modern situations become worrisome, it is nearly always instructive to peer back into history for perspective and understanding. With the crazy, off-the-wall economic policies of the current United States government, there are many historical events from which one can draw context. One such moment in time is the monarchy of Spain during the 1500s.…
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Gaius Octavius was born in 63 B.C.. Nephew to acting dictator of Rome, Julius Caesar, Gaius was (unbeknownst to anyone until after Caesar’s death) named Caesar’s adopted son and heir. Only eighteen years old at the time, he was instantly a wealthy man, and had the additional clout of his adopted father’s name. In ancient…
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"Why do you like history?" someone once asked, "It’s so dull; dates and places and names I can’t remember." Somewhere along the line in this person’s life he was given the wrong sample of the subject of history. This led to a grave misunderstanding. It would be like giving you an icecream sandwich that you…
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Hawke’s Blockade of Brest Thirty-six years before Captain Pellew made his courageous interference with a French squadron escaping out of the harbor of Brest, another English captain was in a similar position. The year was 1759, the pivotal year in the Seven Years War between France and Great Britain.…
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One trait common to all leaders is initiative. Leaders don’t have to be told to do something, they don’t need managers above them, and they don’t wait for the all lights to turn green before departing on a trip. Leaders take action, they take responsibility, and they don’t take their time waiting and wondering…
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I recently came across a very scholarly work regarding slavery in early America and was fascinated by the interesting angle from which it analyzed that horrible institution. I have chosen a few segments upon which to comment, my remarks in blue following each section. A New Perspective on Antebellum Slavery: Public Policy and Slave Prices…
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