November 27, 1931: Concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein impresses a Vienna audience with his performance of Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand. The pianist refused to give up his career after losing his right arm in World War I.

1981: John Kennedy Toole is posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for A Confederacy of Dunces. His gritty mom, Thelma Ducoing Toole, had enlisted the initially skeptical Walker Percy to help get the book published after Toole’s suicide.
1993: Andrew Wiles announces that after many years of work he has solved the seemingly unsolvable Fermat’s Last Theorem. Mathematicians discover a small error, but Wiles resolves it within another year.

October 2008: After a decade spent lobbying, high school dropout Alvin Sykes sees the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act " named for the black teenager brutally murdered in 1955 for reportedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi " signed into law, largely because of his relentless efforts.

Boy, lots of clippers must be on the same wave-length yesterday and today. Thisnamecan'tbetaken started something with the clip "In Defense of Ass Kicking." Lots of similar clips about many failures and then finally success--try, try, again. All about the title of your clip wilhelm "True Grit." Pop.

It took Sarah Hale 38 years of letter writing to get Thanksgiving recognized as a national holiday.

"Pick up your pen. Change the world."

And how many failures preceded A. Lincoln's Presidency?