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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 53 views
Buster Douglass competed with Mike Tyson, AKA “Iron Mike” the heavy weight champion of the world for the title. The champ not only defeated those put in from of him but annihilated them. As the time came for Douglass to enter the ring, the experts did not give him a chance. In the eighth round, Mike…
Jarred Edgecombe • Illustration • • 136 views
William Wilberforce displayed extraordinary endurance. He was defeated regularly in his battle to free England of slave trade. The repeated defeats of his plans did not defeat him. His adversaries complained that, “Wilberforce jumped up whenever they knocked him down.” One said, “It is necessary to watch…
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Victory in Defeat Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture.…
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On June 1, 2007, minor league Mississippi Braves baseball manager Phillip Wellman threw a major league tantrum that earned him the national spotlight, if only for a moment. During a losing game against the Chattanooga Lookouts, Wellman was infuriated over a call made by the home plate umpire. Wellman…