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Are You Ready to Do Something Extraordinary? Vance Brown believes most men are discouraged. They're worn out and wondering if their best days are behind them. Vance knows the feeling. There was a time he felt more dead than alive, but his friends still believed in him. "Have courage," they urged. "God needs you, here, now . . . this day." That's what this book is about, men who stand up for each other and fight for things that matter. It's about men who fail but get back up and try again. Far from platitudes and pat answers, these are gritty pages that bleed, stories about ordinary men who are doing something extraordinary--choosing to live fully, no matter the cost. Answering this noble cal...
In this highly original study, Gregory Downs argues that the most American of wars, the Civil War, created a seemingly un-American popular politics, rooted not in independence but in voluntary claims of dependence. Through an examination of the pleas and petitions of ordinary North Carolinians, Declarations of Dependence contends that the Civil War redirected, not destroyed, claims of dependence by exposing North Carolinians to the expansive but unsystematic power of Union and Confederate governments, and by loosening the legal ties that bound them to husbands, fathers, and masters. Faced with anarchy during the long reconstruction of government authority, people turned fervently to the gove...
The Jazzsipper is set in the big Southern cities of New Orleans, and Atlanta. New Orleans known for Jazz and casually mislabeled as The Murder Capital of the United States, and Atlanta known as the new powerhouse locale for African- American meetings and conventions. There were an estimated 1,600 Black Conventions and Conferences with an economic impact of $5.6 Billion in the U.S. with African- American meetings and events with Atlanta accounting for more than 320,000 visitors and bringing a $264.5 million economic impact on the city this summer alone. And a part time street vendor name Vance, aka Jazz for his love of Jazz music, intend to get by any means necessary, $132.2 million dollars of it, the amount that is spent with the street vendors. The story takes hold of you like a note hit by a Jazz Saxophonist, it moves you through one note, and instrument at a time
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Tells the story of the evolution of the Dahlgren Laboratory from a proof and test facility into a modern research and development center crucial to the technological evolution of the United States Navy.
Jacob M. Weik married Susannah Moir in 1783 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri.
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