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Jumpstart Your Journey to Success
Leadership Lives offers blueprints for leadership and career success based on the stories of Sir Ernest Shackleton, Jane Austen, the New York Yankees, and many more.
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The Founding of Washington, D.C.
In 1783, a band of disgruntled soldiers marched from Lancaster, PA to Philadelphia to demand their back pay.
When pleas for protection were refused by Pennsylvania politicians, 300 insurgents surrounded Independence Hall and held Congress hostage at gunpoint.
Congress rapidly relocated to Princeton, NJ, the start of a seven-year journey that led to establishing America's "Federal City" on what a 19th century writer termed "the least eligible site" - along the banks of the Potomac.
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