The after port anchor had come inboard before I stepped over the rail of the Gullwing, and leaped to the deck. The starboard and port bowers were both catted and fished and the stay-fore-sail had filled to pay off her head.
This book is about the United States African Naval Squadron suppression of the slave trade on the West coast of Africa. The U.S. Navy recaptured Africans bound for slaves to the United States aboard American ships and resettled them in the American colony in Liberia.The Slave Trade, 1842-1861 was...
The vast, gray expanse of the desert lay still as a pic ture in the heat of the early afternoon. The silence of waste places held it. It was gaunt and sterile, clad with a drab growth of sage, ļ¬at as a table, and with the white scurf of the alkali breaking through its parched skin. It was the...
The path is strewn with dead men's bones. You see the white thigh-bones lying in front of your feet, and at one side, among the undergrowth, you find the skull. These are the skeletons of slaves who have been unable to keep up with the march, and so were murdered or left to die.
William Tyndale (/ĖtÉŖndÉl/;[1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c.ā1494 ā c.ā6 October 1536) was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known as a...
A colleague and I were discussing āleadershipā and what that truly meant. We came up with this analogy, which I hope youāll enjoy.Moving rocks for a living? Imagine you move rocks for a living. The more rocks you move, the more youāre paid. You donāt move rocks, you donāt get paid...
There is a garden on a hill slope between the snows of the Sierra Nevada and the warm, rich valleys of the coast. It IS in that region Of Northern California where the pine belt and the fruit belt interlace. Both pine and fruit trees grow in that mountain garden, and there, in the new moon of...
Yates Stirling Jr. was a young boy when he stood on the deck of a United States Navy warship for the first time. An admiral on board asked him if he was going join the Navy like his father. Young Stirling answered, "I hope to, sir."
For five hundred years those who call themselves free spirits because they prefer prison life to army service have been trying desperately to kill Jesus a second timeāto kill Him in the hearts of men.
It has been found that around 1.9 million children between the ages of 3 and 17 have been diagnosed with some form of depression. To make matters worse, two out of three people who are suffering from depression do not receive the proper treatment they need. Although treatment and care for...