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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

New look

Even though I never post to the little-known lightsayings blog, I have taken the time to update the template. It's no longer the forsaken, negative-image twin of DARKSAYINGS. It is now the forsaken, quite-different-than-DARKSAYINGS blog.

Monday, May 22, 2006

100 Great Lives to Learn About

The purpose of this post is to list 100 great lives that I want to learn about. Bold names I have already studied. Italicized I am currently studying.

US History Figures
1. George Washington
2. Theodore Roosevelt
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. Franklin Roosevelt
5. John F. Kennedy
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Nancy Reagan
8. John Adams
9. Abigail Adams
10. Harry Truman
11. Thomas Jefferson
12. Benjamin Franklin
13. Richard Nixon
14. Colin Powell
15. John Quincy Adams
16. George W. Bush
17. Martin Luther King, Jr.
18. Thomas Payne
19. Laura Bush
20. John McCain
21. Hillary Clinton
22. Robert F. Kennedy

World Leaders
1. Winston Churchill
2. Napoleon Bonaparte
3. William Wilberforce

Biblical Figures
1. Job
2. David
3. Paul
4. Peter
5. Moses
6. Joshua
7. Samuel
8. Joseph, the son of Jacob
9. Abraham
11. John, the son of Zebedee
12. Solomon
13. Isaiah
14. Elijah
15. Elisha
16. Stephen
17. Absolom
18. Esther
19. Mary
20. Jesus Christ

Musicians
1. Ludwig von Beethoven
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Authors
1. C. S. Lewis
2. Watchman Nee

Ministers
1. William Seymour
2. C. H. Spurgeon
3. Lee Stoneking
4. T. W. Barnes
5. T. F. Tenney
6. Evan Roberts
7. Jonathan Edwards
8. D. L. Moody
9. Jim Elliot
10. G. T. Haywood
11. Larry Booker
12. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
13. Andrew Urshan

Other Notable Figures
1. Anne Frank
2. Helen Keller
3. Elie Wiesel
4. Albert Einstein
5. Thomas Edison
6. Rudolph Giuliani
7. Alfred Vanderbilt
8. Andrew Carnegie
9. Bernard Kerik