Nathan Hale

Among the most magnificent towers/skyscrapers around world. Chicago Tribune wanted to build “the most beautiful office building in the world”. In June 1922, Chicago tribune wanted to build an unusual and a style that was never repeated. The tribune tower had to be an iconic building in Chicago. Chicago Tribune were looking for an image over substance, personality over character, Salesman and acquisition over production. To celebrate newspaper’s Seventy-fifth anniversary, the tribune declared a…

“We never sleep” was the motto of Allan Pinkerton’s detective agency. Pinkerton led these spies in the South where they “Didn’t sleep”, discovering more and more tactical information on the South’s plans to win the Civil War. In the USA a great war would soon begin a war that would separate the young nation, and would create the North and the South (Confederacy). The war would begin on April 12, 1861, and the main reason for this war was slavery. Spies such as Allan Pinkerton and the…

When Wilcolmb E. Washburn formulated his thesis regarding Bacon’s Rebellion in The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia, he did so as a direct response to and criticism of the widely accepted views held on the subject by most historians for the century prior. These views were epitomized in Torchbearer of the Revolution: The Story of Bacon’s Rebellion and Its Leader, written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, which lauded Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion as a precursor to…

Lawyer’s trick “There are just some kind of men who—who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results (Lee, 61) When Miss Maudie says this she’s talking about Nathan Radley and all other foot-washing Baptists who think of pleasure as a sin. Maudie says earlier in the chapter that some “foot-washers” told her and her flowers they were going to go for hell, for not spending enough time “inside and reading…

his sense of humor. That reminds me of the time I was up for confirmation hearings before one of the committees of the Senate for Secretary of Transportation and my husband introduced me. You know what he did to me? He sort of did a take-off on Nathan Hale, 'And I regret that I have but one wife to give for my country's infrastructure!' That's Bob Dole. But above all these, Senators, Democrats and Republicans talked about Bob's character, his honesty, his integrity, I remember Senator Pete…