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America's Star-Spangled Banner from Fort McHenry, Baltimore, September 14, 1814 American History On this day in 1814, patriot and...

Yesterday's horrific event and the anniversary of September 11th bring to mind a story and executive told me twenty years ago. He was...

So much for blogging. My excuse is that I got sidetracked by a frustrating project. Back soon.

Dump Camp, October 27, 1915 This is one of Shackleton's outstanding leadership moments as described by Worsley in his 1931 book,...

Here's Shackleton's version in South ... "The attack of the ice reached its climax at 4 p.m. ... The decks were breaking upwards and the...

Endurance , October 1915, colorized. In the early pages of his 1931 book, Endurance , Frank Worsley gives a vivid account of how the...

Worsley's Endurance ... " Within the ship, to counteract the depression caused by darkness, we had a particularly brilliant scheme of...

From Worsley's Endurance ... "Shackleton had a genius - it was neither more or less than that - for keeping those about him in high...

Worsley, Endurance ... "... I remember looking at each one of the company present, and trying to image how he would feel had he heard...