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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Recently, the Guinness World Records organization gave 112-year-old Israel Kristal a certificate as the world’s oldest living man. Kristal was born in Poland in 1903, and survived both World Wars and a Nazi Concentration camp. His first wife and two children died in the camp, but Kristal survived and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 36 views
Some of the best fans in sports are those who have chosen the Chicago Cubs as their team. They sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” year after year and “root, root, root for the Cubbies” as they go another year without a championship. The last time the Cubs won the World Series, “Teddy Roosevelt was president,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Irene Triplett, the 84-year-old daughter of a Civil War veteran is the last recipient of a Civil War Pension. She receives $73.13 each month from the U.S. Government. There are still 16 widows and children of veterans of the 1898 Spanish-American war receiving military pensions, and 4,038 widows, sons,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
After 73 years of working at Macy’s department store in New York City, Rose Syracuse is retiring from her job as an accountant. She took the job when she graduated from high school in 1939. Rose is 92 now, and after falling and breaking a hip, she decided it was time to retire. “On her last day at the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
In Flickering Pixels, Shane Hipps writes, “Reconciliation comes in the context of clear communication, meaningful listening, shared understandings, civility, openness, and a lot of patience.” -- Flickering Pixels, 118 Matthew 18:15-17 (CEV) “ If one of my followers sins against you, go and point out…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success, Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett write, “I demonstrate love as patience when helping People who are down on their luck by showing them that I care about their problems. I want to help them rebuild their self-confidence so that they can, in turn,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
SERVICE John Hamilton was arrested and police charged him with obstructing official business and disorderly conduct. What was his crime? Frustrated with the city’s inability to pay mowers to cut the grass in Sandusky’s Central Park he decided to do it himself. He cut the foot high grass and was cleaning…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
PAIN New scientific research indicates there is differences in the way people handle pain. Whether someone is wimp or a stoic may be due to a variation in a single gene that determines a person’s tolerance of pain. The gene helps regulate how many natural painkillers, known as endorphins, the body produces.…
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February 2, 1993 Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song February 2, 1989 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C) or below in 15 U.S. states February 2, 1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC February 2, 1955 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower…