First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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Finding Inspiration from Trailblazers

January 20, 2011 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

This has been a week of giants. On Monday, we celebrated Martin Luther King’s birthday, which gave me a reason to watch his I Have a Dream speech. Today is the 50th anniversary of John Kennedy’s stirring address (“ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”) And 2 years ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th U.S. President.

Image: A tribute to Marie Curie, who pioneered the study of radioactivity, discovered 2 elements (polonium and radium) and was the first person to be awarded 2 Nobel prizes.

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