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In it, I explain why I've put some of my own money into certain crypto investments … [TheEmpireTrading]( [Divider] Eric Liddell Biography Eric_liddellEric Liddell (1902 – 1945) was a Scottish Olympic champion at 400 m and a famous Christian missionary; his inspirational life was captured in the film ‘Chariots of Fire‘ Although his parents were Scottish, Eric Liddell was both born and died in China. He was born on 16 January 1902 in the city of Tientsin (now Tianjin) in north-eastern China. He was sent to Eltham College, a Christian boarding school for 12 years. In 1921, he moved to Edinburgh University where he studied Pure Science. From his school days, he was an outstanding sportsman excelling in short distance running, rugby union and cricket. In 1922 and 1923 he played rugby union for Scotland in the Five Nations. However, it was at running that he really excelled, and after setting a new British record in the 1923 100 yards sprint, he was considered a great prospect for the Olympics in 1924. Eric Liddell was a committed Protestant Christian. During the Paris Olympics – because the heats of the 100m sprint were held on Sunday, he withdrew from the race – a race considered to be his strongest. Instead, he concentrated on the 400 metres as the race schedule didn’t involve a Sunday. eric liddellLiddell was considered to be a strong favourite for the race. Before the final, the US Olympic masseur slipped a piece of paper into his hand. It included the words from the Bible 1 Samuel 2:30 “Those who honour me I will honour”. – Left image, Liddell in Paris Olympics, 1924. Sprinting from the start, Liddell created a significant gap to the other runners and held onto win gold and set a new Olympic record time of 47.6 seconds. He described his race plan: “The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God’s help I run faster.” (BBC link) He also won bronze in the 200m. In this race, he also beat Harold Abrahams a British rival and team-mate. Liddell’s running style was unorthodox. Towards the end of the race, he would fling his head back, with mouth wide open appearing to gasp for breath. Life as a Christian Missionary In 1925, Liddell returned to northern China to serve as a missionary like his parents. In China, he remained fit but only competed sporadically. Liddell married Florence Mackenzie a Canadian missionary. They had three daughters Patricia, Heather and Maureen. In 1941, the advancing Japanese army pressed Liddell and his family to flee to a rural mission station. Liddell was kept very busy dealing with the stream of locals who came to the station for medical treatment and food. In 1943, the Japanese reached the mission statement and Liddell was interned. Aggravated by the shortage of food and medical treatment, Liddell developed a brain tumour and suffered severe ill-health. Many camp internees attest to the strong moral character of Liddell. He was seen as a great unifying force and helped to ease tensions through his selflessness and impartiality. In “The Courtyard of the Happy Way“, Norman Cliff, wrote Liddell: “the finest Christian gentleman it has been my pleasure to meet. In all the time in the camp, I never heard him say a bad word about anybody”. A fellow internee, Stephen Metcalfe, later wrote of Liddell: “He gave me two things. One was his worn out running shoes, but the best thing he gave me was his baton of forgiveness. He taught me to love my enemies, the Japanese, and to pray for them.” Eric Liddell died on 21 February 1945, five months before liberation. He died from his inoperable brain tumour – through overwork and malnutrition undoubtedly hastened his death. It was revealed after the war that Liddell had turned down an opportunity to leave the camp (as part of a prisoner exchange program), preferring instead to give his place to a pregnant woman. His death left a profound vacuum within the camp – such was the strength of his personality and character. The 1981 Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire chronicled and contrasted the lives of Eric Liddell and British-Jewish athlete Harold Abrahams. Dear Subscriber, After the massive market collapse and several huge scandals last year, a lot of experts are saying the crypto markets are headed to zero. And at one point in time, I would have agreed with them. But after doing a deeper dive, I now have a different perspective. Which is why I just put out [this urgent new video alert](. Thomas Paine Biography Thomas PaineThomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – – June 8, 1809) was an influential thinker, writer and philosopher and a key figure in British radicalism. His writings were influential in the French and American revolutions. Paine also embodied the spirit of the Enlightenment. “I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.” – Thomas Paine Early life Thomas Paine Paine was born in Thetford to relatively humble origins. For a time he was apprenticed in his father’s corset business. He then spent time working in an excise office in Grantham, Lincolnshire and later Lewes, East Sussex. In 1771, he married his first wife, Elizabeth Olive. Around this period, Tomas Paine became increasingly interested in local political matters. He was involved in a local Vestry church which collected taxes and tithes to distribute to the poor. In 1772, Paine became active in a campaign to press for better working practices for excise duty workers. This led to his first publication The Case of the Officers of the Excise. After being dismissed from work and narrowly avoiding debtors prison, through selling his household goods, Paine left for London and, after meeting and impressing Benjamin Franklin, he left for America under the patronage of Franklin. It was in America that Paine became a household name through his publication of a revolutionary pamphlet – Common Sense. It was a call for American independence based on a just republican government. “O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the Old World is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) It became a best seller and was influential in setting the tone of the American independence movement. Paine’s ideas were not unique but, he had had the capacity to popularise ideas in simple but effective language. During the war of independence, George Washington often read out the writings of Paine (from his Crisis Pamphlet series) to inspire his men. “Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Attributed to John Adams Paine’s next great influential work was his pamphlet the “Rights of Man” written in 1790 whilst living in London. Paine was a great supporter of the French revolution. He saw the revolution as an important reaction against the tyranny of King’s and monarchy. Paine was excited at the prospect of Republican ideals of liberty, fraternity and egalite. The Rights of Man was written in response to an attack by leading conservative writer Edmund Burke who wrote the critical pamphlet “Reflections on the Revolution in France.” The Rights of Man was a powerful defence of individual liberty and representative democracy. In many ways, Paine was far ahead of his time, he went on to write about the necessity for a government to offer comprehensive welfare support for the poorest in society. Despite support from fellow intellectuals such as William Blake and Mary Wollstonecraft – during the Napoleonic wars, there was a growing campaign against the radicalism of Paine. Paine’s Rights of Man led to his indictment for seditious libel and this forced Paine out of Great Britain. A concerted campaign against Paine was effective in making him a figure of hate or at least suspicion, apart from all but his most loyal supporters. With the advent of the Napoleonic wars, the atmosphere of nationalism intensified the suspicion of anyone with radical sympathies and Paine increasingly was seen as an outcast in Great Britain. It was perhaps ironic that Paine later turned on Napoleon – after Napoleon’s moves towards dictatorship. Paine described him as “the completest charlatan that ever existed”. This was despite Napoleon once claiming he slept with a copy of Paine’s Rights of Man under his pillow. In 1797, Paine had even written an essay on how Napoleon may invade Britain. Another irony for Paine was that, as one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the French Revolution, he only narrowly avoided the guillotine in Robespierre’s reign of terror. Along with George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, Paine was granted honorary French citizenship and elected to the National convention. He was in full support of the French republic but, to the surprise of many, opposed the execution of Louis XVI, arguing in principle it would be better to exile him to the US. The problem for Paine arose with the ascendancy of Robespierre. In their increasingly repressive regime, Paine, along with other Girondins were arrested and imprisoned in December 1793. Paine’s cell was marked for his execution, it was only his ill health and a mix up which spared him from the guillotine. After the fall of Robespierre, Paine was released; after becoming increasingly disillusioned with Napoleon’s regime, Paine returned to the US at the invitation of President Jefferson. During his imprisonment in France, Paine began one of his most controversial works of the era. His work ‘The Age of Reason‘ was a stark criticism of Christianity and the role of religion in people’s lives. Paine made a case for a Deist belief system – a personal relationship with God, without the interference of priest and organised religions. “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. ” – The Age of Reason Such a belief was to some extent shared by some of the founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson. But, in the early nineteenth century, a revival of religious fervour made his position increasingly unpopular in the mass of society. The last years of his life saw an increasing number of former friends and supporters turn against him (for example, George Washington) Thomas Paine died in 1809, mourned by few at the time. Robert G. Ingersoll wrote: “Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred – his virtues denounced as vices – his services forgotten – his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken.” Thomas Paine has been a lasting inspiration for secular humanism, deist beliefs, and was also an inspiration to later radicals and socialists. In it, I explain why I've put some of my own money into certain crypto investments … Why Bitcoin and Ethereum could see huge upside from here … And why I believe a handful of smaller cryptos are poised to jump just like certain tech stocks did in the wake of the Nasdaq collapse 20 years ago. (In one of the more extreme examples, Apple was just $0.20 a share and has since risen as much as 76,601%!) Just [click here to get the full details now, while there's still time to act on everything in the presentation.]( Best wishes, [Signature] Rosa Parks Biography rosa-parksRosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 – 2005) was an African American civil right’s activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”. Parks is famous for her refusal on 1 December 1955, to obey bus driver James Blake’s demand that she relinquish her seat to a white man. Her subsequent arrest and trial for this act of civil disobedience triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history, and launched Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the organisers of the boycott, to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Her role in American history earned her an iconic status in American culture, and her actions have left an enduring legacy for civil rights movements around the world. Early life Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. Her ancestors included both Irish-Scottish lineage and also a great grandmother who was a slave. She attended local rural schools, and after the age of 11, the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. However, she later had to opt out of school to look after her grandmother. As a child, Rosa became aware of the segregation which was deeply embedded in Alabama. She experienced deep-rooted racism and became conscious of the different opportunities faced by white and black children. She also recalls seeing a Klu Klux Klan march go past her house – where her father stood outside with a shotgun. Due to the Jim Crow laws, most black voters were effectively disenfranchised. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery. He was active in the NAACP, and Rosa Parks became a supporter – helping with fund-raising and other initiatives. She attended meetings defending the rights of black people and seeking to prevent injustice. Montgomery Bus Boycott After a day at work at Montgomery Fair department store, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus at around 6 p.m., Thursday, 1 December 1955, in downtown Montgomery. She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the “colored” section, which was near the middle of the bus and directly behind the ten seats reserved for white passengers. Initially, she had not noticed that the bus driver was the same man, James F. Blake, who had left her in the rain in 1943. As the bus travelled along its regular route, all of the white-only seats in the bus filled up. The bus reached the third stop in front of the Empire Theater, and several white passengers boarded. rosaparksIn 1900, Montgomery had passed a city ordinance for the purpose of segregating passengers by race. Conductors were given the power to assign seats to accomplish that purpose; however, no passengers would be required to move or give up their seat and stand if the bus was crowded and no other seats were available. Over time and by custom, however, Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the practice of requiring black riders to move whenever there were no white only seats left. Following standard practice, the bus driver Blake noted that the front of the bus was filled with white passengers and there were two or three men standing. Therefore, he moved the “colored” section sign behind Parks and demanded that four black people give up their seats in the middle section so that the white passengers could sit. Years later, in recalling the events of the day, Parks said, “When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.” Rosa_Parks_BookingBy Parks’ account, Blake said, “Y’all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.” Three of them complied. Parks said, “The driver wanted us to stand up, the four of us. We didn’t move at the beginning, but he says, ‘Let me have these seats.’ And the other three people moved, but I didn’t.” The black man sitting next to her gave up his seat. Parks moved, but toward the window seat; she did not move to the newly repositioned colored section. Blake then said, “Why don’t you stand up?” Parks responded, “I don’t think I should have to stand up.” Blake called the police to arrest Parks. When recalling the incident for Eyes on the Prize, a 1987 public television series on the Civil Rights Movement, Parks said, “When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ‘No, I’m not.’ And he said, ‘Well, if you don’t stand up, I’m going to have to call the police and have you arrested.’ I said, ‘You may do that.'” During a 1956 radio interview with Sydney Rogers in West Oakland, Parks was asked why she decided not to vacate her bus seat. Parks said, “I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen of Montgomery, Alabama.” She also detailed her motivation in her autobiography, My Story: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer arrested her. As the officer took her away, she recalled that she asked, “Why do you push us around?” The officer’s response as she remembered it was, “I don’t know, but the law’s the law, and you’re under arrest.” She later said, “I only knew that, as I was being arrested, that it was the very last time that I would ever ride in humiliation of this kind.” Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code, even though she technically had not taken up a white-only seat — she had been in a colored section. E.D. Nixon and Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the evening of December 1. That evening, Nixon conferred with Alabama State College professor Jo Ann Robinson about Parks’ case. Robinson, a member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), stayed up all night mimeographing over 35,000 handbills announcing a bus boycott. The Women’s Political Council was the first group to officially endorse the boycott. On Sunday 4th December 1955, plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced at black churches in the area, and a front-page article in The Montgomery Advertiser helped spread the word. At a church rally that night, attendees unanimously agreed to continue the boycott until they were treated with the level of courtesy they expected, until black drivers were hired, and until seating in the middle of the bus was handled on a first-come basis. Four days later, Parks was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. The trial lasted 30 minutes. Parks was found guilty and fined $10, plus $4 in court costs. Parks appealed her conviction and formally challenged the legality of racial segregation. In a 1992 interview with National Public Radio’s Lynn Neary, Parks recalled: “I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn’t hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became. ” On Monday 5 December 1955, after the success of the one-day boycott, a group of 16 to 18 people gathered at the Mt. Zion AME Zion Church to discuss boycott strategies. The group agreed that a new organisation was needed to lead the boycott effort if it were to continue. Rev. Ralph David Abernathy suggested the name “Montgomery Improvement Association” (MIA). The name was adopted, and the MIA was formed. Its members elected as their president, a relative newcomer to Montgomery, a young and mostly unknown minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. That Monday night, 50 leaders of the African American community gathered to discuss the proper actions to be taken in response to Parks’ arrest. E.D. Nixon said, “My God, look what segregation has put in my hands!” Parks was the ideal plaintiff for a test case against city and state segregation laws. While the 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, unwed and pregnant, had been deemed unacceptable to be the center of a civil rights mobilization, King stated that, “Mrs Parks, on the other hand, was regarded as one of the finest citizens of Montgomery—not one of the finest Negro citizens, but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery.” Parks was securely married and employed, possessed a quiet and dignified demeanour, and was politically savvy. The day of Parks’ trial — Monday, December 5, 1955 — the WPC distributed the 35,000 leaflets. The handbill read, “We are…asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial . . . You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don’t ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday.” Rosa parks on a bus after the segregation law was lifted Rosa Parks on a bus (Dec 1956) after the segregation law was lifted. It rained that day, but the black community persevered in their boycott. Some rode in carpools, while others travelled in black-operated cabs that charged the same fare as the bus, 10 cents. Most of the remainder of the 40,000 black commuters walked, some as far as 20 miles. In the end, the boycott lasted for 382 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months, severely damaging the bus transit company’s finances until the law requiring segregation on public buses was lifted. Some segregationists retaliated with terrorism. Black churches were burned or dynamited. Martin Luther King’s home was bombed in the early morning hours of January 30, 1956, and E.D. Nixon’s home was also attacked. However, the black community’s bus boycott marked one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation. It sparked many other protests, and it catapulted King to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Through her role in sparking the boycott, Rosa Parks played an important part in internationalising the awareness of the plight of African Americans and the civil rights struggle. King wrote in his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom that Parks’ arrest was the precipitating factor, rather than the cause, of the protest: “The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices…. Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually, the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ‘I can take it no longer.'” The Montgomery bus boycott was also the inspiration for the bus boycott in the township of Alexandria, Eastern Cape of South Africa which was one of the key events in the radicalization of the black majority of that country under the leadership of the African National Congress. Rosa Parks after boycott After the boycott, Rosa Parks became an icon and leading spokesperson of the civil rights movement in the US. Immediately after the boycott, she lost her job in a department store. For many years she worked as a seamstress. In 1965, she was hired by African-American U.S. Representative John Conyers. She worked as his secretary until her retirement in 1988. Conyers remarked of Rosa Parks. “You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene — just a very special person.” [CNN,2004] Nilus Mattive P.S. I'm mostly known for my work on dividend stocks and other conservative investments, which is why I've decided to come out and give people my unbiased look at this hotly-debated topic.   At The Emрire Тrading, we keep an eye out for favorable circumstances we believe will interest our readers. The following is one such message from one of our colleagues I think you’ll appreciate. [TheEmpireTrading] [Privacy Policy]( - [Terms & Conditions]( - The easiest way to guarantee you get every email is to [whitelisting us.]( provided by Finance and Investing Traffic, LLC, owner and operator of TheEmpireTrading.comCopyright © 2023 TheEmpireTrading. All Rights Reserved. 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