Charlie kirk https://youtu.be/OsWRClaBYI4
Anna Connelly
Anna Connelly was an American woman who lived from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century in Pennsylvania. She was the inventor of the predecessor of the modern outdoor fire escape; her invention saved lives, causing it to become a safety component in modern buildings.
Danny Thomas
A broke entertainer once made a promise. Standing in a church with $7 to his name, he prayed to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, promising that if his career ever took off, he’d honor him in a big way. That entertainer was Danny Thomas. Within a few years, he became one of the biggest stars of the 1950s, headlining movies, TV, and stages across America. But he didn’t forget the vow. Instead of building a small shrine, he created something far more impactful: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. A place where children battling the toughest illnesses are treated without families paying a single bill. Not for treatment. Not for travel. Not for housing. A global institution born from faith, gratitude, and a promise kept.
John Colter
The most famous “short story” of John Colter is his incredible survival run from the Blackfeet tribe in 1808. Stripped naked and given a head start, he outran hundreds of warriors across a harsh, cactus-filled plain before escaping them in a river and then walking hundreds of miles to safety. Colter is also credited with being the first white man to document the area that is now Yellowstone National Park, a region he described as “Colter’s Hell” due to its geysers and hot springs.
The Run
- Capture: In 1808, Colter and his companion John Potts were setting traps when they were discovered by a large group of Blackfeet warriors.
- Sacrifice of Potts: Potts, a trapper, resisted and was killed by arrows after first shooting an Indian.
- The “Game”: The Blackfeet stripped Colter and told him to run, intending to use him as a target.
- The Escape: Colter, a swift runner, outdistanced the initial chase across a plain covered in prickly pear cacti. He eventually escaped the main group by submerging himself in a river and hiding under driftwood.
- The Journey Back: After waiting for the Blackfeet to leave, a naked and starving Colter had to walk roughly 200 miles back to the nearest fort, a journey he completed in a week to 11 days.
Discovery of Yellowstone
- During his time as a fur trapper, Colter explored areas that are now part of Yellowstone National Park.
- His reports of sulfurous pits, geysers, and boiling springs were disbelieved by many at the time, leading to the area being called “Colter’s Hell”.
Other key facts
- Colter was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition before striking out on his own as a fur trapper in 1806.
- His experience as a hunter and trapper made him one of the first “mountain men” of the American West.
Kendra Scott
Success doesn’t always roar — sometimes it builds in silence. Kendra Scott started her jewelry brand with $500, working out of a spare bedroom while raising her son. She faced rejection after rejection yet refused to quit. Every setback became a blueprint for her next move.
When stores ignored her, she went directly to customers. When investors doubted her, she reinvested every dollar back into growth. Years later, Kendra Scott grew into a billion-dollar company rooted in purpose, design, and community.
The lesson? You don’t wait for momentum — you build it. Quiet consistency, not noise, is what turns small beginnings into lasting legacies.
Neerja Bhanot
In the early morning of September 5, 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 was hijacked while on the ground in Karachi by four armed Palestinian terrorists.
Amid the sudden panic and confusion, 22-year-old senior flight attendant Neerja Bhanot acted with remarkable composure. Without drawing attention, she managed to alert the cockpit by discreetly punching in the hijack code. Thanks to her quick thinking, the pilots escaped through the overhead hatch, ensuring the aircraft remained grounded and preventing the hijackers from using it as a deadly weapon in the sky.
Over the next 17 tense hours, Neerja displayed unwavering bravery. When the terrorists began seeking out American passengers, she quietly gathered and hid their passports — slipping them under seats, tossing them down chutes, and even flushing some away. Her efforts disrupted the hijackers’ plans and likely saved dozens of lives.
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski
SHE BUILT AN AIRPLANE AT 14. NOW SHE’S SOLVING MYSTERIES EINSTEIN COULDN’T.
Most teenagers are figuring out algebra. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski was building an airplane in her garage.
The Story:
At 14, she built a plane from scratch. No kit. Just YouTube, manuals, and determination.
At 16, she flew it—youngest person ever to fly a self-built plane.
At 18, MIT rejected her. She sent them a video of her flying. They immediately accepted her.
At 21, she graduated MIT 3 years ago with a perfect 5.0 GPA. Professors called her the best in decades.
What She’s Doing:
Revolutionizing theoretical physics:
🔹 Quantum gravity – How gravity works at tiny scales
🔹 Black holes – Solving paradoxes Einstein and Hawking couldn’t
🔹 Celestial holography – Universe as a hologram
The Recognition:
Stephen Hawking cited her research in his final papers. She was 25.
Jeff Bezos called to recruit her. She declined.
Google and Facebook tried. She said no.
“I want to understand how the universe works, not make billionaires richer.”
Steve Jobs
1. In 1974, 19-year-old Jobs worked as a technician at Atari and thought he’d remain nobody.
Until he stumbled upon Robert Fritz’s book “The Path of Least Resistance” in a used bookstore.
A book about turning creative vision into reality through understanding structures.
Jobs read it overnight and realized: he’d been doing everything wrong his whole life.
2. The book’s main idea: most people react to circumstances, while successful people create structures.
Not “how to make money,” but “how to create a system that will earn.” Not “how to sell a product,” but “how to build a brand people will wait for.” Not “how to solve a problem,” but “how to create a solution that will change the world.”
Jobs understood: he shouldn’t adapt to the market but create a new market.
3. A year after reading, Jobs founded Apple – not as “another computer company.”
But as a structure for embodying the future. He didn’t copy existing computers – he envisioned a world where everyone has a personal computer.
And built the company as a tool for creating that world. It was the structural thinking from the book, not technical genius.
4. The book stopped being reprinted in 1995 – when they realized it was TOO dangerous for the status quo.
Fritz showed how an ordinary person can create systems that change entire industries. How to turn ideas into structures, and structures into reality.
Corporations understood: if everyone masters structural thinking – monopolies will collapse. The book was quietly removed from sale.
5. Structural thinking isn’t about planning but creating self-developing systems.
Jobs didn’t plan the iPhone in 1976. But he created a company structure that 30 years later gave birth to the iPhone.
Structure attracts the right resources, people, opportunities. And the person simply follows the path that the structure itself creates.
The Muhlenberg Brothers:
The phrase “A Time to Preach and a Time to Fight” refers to the famous 1776 sermon by Reverend John Peter Muhlenberg, who dramatically shed his clerical robes to reveal a Continental Army uniform, inspiring his congregation to enlist. This event exemplifies the “fighting parson,” a patriotic minister willing to fight for American liberty, and is also linked to his brother, Frederick Muhlenberg, who was also a pastor involved in the early American government.
John Peter Muhlenberg, the “Fighting Parson”
In a 1776 sermon in Woodstock, Virginia, based on Ecclesiastes 3:1, Muhlenberg declared it was now “a time to fight”.
He threw off his robe to reveal his military uniform, then ordered the drums to beat for recruits outside the church.
Hundreds of men enlisted, forming the 8th Virginia Regiment, and Muhlenberg rose to the rank of brigadier general, serving with distinction at battles like Yorktown.
After the war, he continued to serve his country as a U.S. Representative and Senator for Pennsylvania.
Frederick Muhlenberg, his politically active brother
Initially, Frederick was hesitant about his brother’s involvement in politics, believing a pastor should remain separate from worldly affairs.
However, when the British bombarded New York, his church was destroyed, and his family was displaced, he was motivated to become more involved in the revolutionary cause.
He went on to be elected the first Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was one of two people to sign the Bill of Rights.
A broader context
The Muhlenberg brothers represent a movement of religious leaders who saw a duty to their country as an extension of their duty to God.
British authorities viewed these “black-robed patriot preachers” with suspicion, with King George III blaming “Presbyterian” pastors for fueling the rebellion
The Runner Who Beat Death
In 490 BC, when Persia invaded Greece, the city of Athens faced destruction. With no time to lose, a soldier named Pheidippides was sent to run from Marathon to Sparta—150 miles—to ask for help. He ran for two straight days without stopping, but Sparta refused. Exhausted, he ran back. When Athens finally defeated the Persians at the Battle of Marathon, Pheidippides was given one last task: carry the news of victory to Athens. He sprinted 26 miles without pause, stormed into the city, and shouted: “We have won!”—before collapsing dead. His sacrifice inspired the modern marathon, but the real story was never about sport. It was about a man who literally ran himself to death to save his people.
Thomas Sowell
is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.
The 92-year-old economist has authored more than 45 books, including bestsellers such as Basic Economics, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, and Economic Facts and Fallacies. He has also written on politics, sociology, education, race, and much more.
Sowell’s work has been cited extensively. Between 1991 and 1995 he was the most cited black economist and the second most cited between 1971 and 1990.
Sowell’s current research focuses on cultural history in a world perspective, a subject on which he began to write a trilogy in 1982. The trilogy includes Race and Culture (1994), Migrations and Cultures (1996), and Conquests and Cultures (1998).
Sowell’s journalistic writings include a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers from Boston to Honolulu. Some of these essays have been collected in book form, most recently in Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays published by the Hoover Institution Press in 2006.
VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER:
Today, we celebrate the birth of a true pioneer a man who loved Nature and taught the world the Power of Water’s Vorticity. He was born on the 30th June 1885 and passed on the 25th September 1958.
His main axiom is: “Comprehend and Copy Nature”.
Viktor was a forester in Austria and he came to fame when he solved a national problem how to stop log jams in the Austrian mountains, by building a flume that allowed logs to spiral down a tunnel without getting blocked. He became the Father of Water Science and eventually was abducted by Hitler to assist to develop Vimana or vertically take-off craft and became the Father of Air and the Space Age.
His main axiom is: “Comprehend and Copy Nature” which he applied to building the Tonal Tower of Harmonics Similar to Gabriel’s Horn.
This explains the cosmic formula n x (1/n) = 1 where n or any number multiplied by its reciprocal equals 1 or Unity Consciousness. This is the Law Of One that joins or bridges the Microcosm with the Macrocosm symbolized by the Hyperbolic Cone or Curve, tapping into the Universal Codes of Creation.
Wayne Huizenga
Picture this. It’s 1962. You borrow $5,000 from your dad, buy one garbage truck, and drive the route yourself. Most people stop there. Wayne Huizenga didn’t. He kept buying tiny haulers no one cared about and stitched them into Waste Management, making more than 100 acquisitions and turning trash routes into a national empire. Then he ran the same play with Blockbuster and sold it for $8.4 billion in 1994. Then again with car dealerships, building AutoNation into a Fortune 500 powerhouse. Same formula every time: consolidate, scale, sell, repeat.
William Preston, a 13-year-old from Nevada, sold his Xbox and mowed lawns for weeks to buy a used car for his mother, who had been struggling to get to work. His surprise gift brought her to tears, as William aimed to “make her life a little easier.”
Vince Coleman 1917
Halifax was rocked by the largest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb, when a munitions ship caught fire after colliding in the harbor. Train dispatcher Vince Coleman learned that an incoming passenger train was approaching the city, unaware of the imminent danger. Instead of fleeing, Coleman stayed at his post and tapped out a final telegraph message: “Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire… Guess this will be my last message. Goodbye boys.” Moments later, the explosion leveled much of Halifax and killed Coleman at his desk.
