Affirmation for strength:

God cannot fail, so I cannot fail. “The warrior within me” has already won.

Image: David DeHetre [Affirmation by KNOWOL – CC BY 2.0]

What was the most popular book in America the year you were born?

If you were born between 1930 and 2016, find out what Americans were reading the year…

Ulysses S. Grant’s deathbed letter to his wife and children

With these few injunctions and the knowledge I have of your love and affection, and of the dutiful affection of all our children, I bid you a final farewell, until we meet in another and, I trust, a better world. You will find this on my person after my demise.

Beautifully detailed map of Stamford, CT from 1875

Historic bird’s eye view of Stamford, Connecticut in 1875

Wall Street’s Charging Bull was guerilla art

On December 16, 1989 Wall Street woke up to find a charging bull on its doorstep…

No life is worth leading if it is always an easy life

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…

Theodore Roosevelt admired those who worked hard, pitied those who didn’t

I pity the creature who doesn’t work, at whichever end of the social scale…