J. Mark Powell

5 days ago | theworldlink.com | J. Mark Powell

Always be on time, we are taught. Promptness is, after all, a virtue. But one time, being late paid off spectacularly for one tardy student. And we are all the better today for it. Here’s how it happened. George Dantzig was a math whiz. We’re talking scary smart with numbers. Growing up as a kid in the 1920s, long before personal calculators were ever dreamed up, he figured out difficult problems the old-fashioned way with pencil, paper and brainpower. Dantzig was born into a family of Jewish academics.

6 days ago | santamariatimes.com | J. Mark Powell

The American lexicon was once filled with dozens, hundreds of charmingly quaint phrases that have now gone the way of the dodo. A particular favorite was, “There was enough food to feed Coxey’s army.” While your grandparents and great-grandparents would have understood it, saying it these days would be met with a puzzled expression followed by, “Who was Coxey?” “Why did he have an army?” And, the most practical of all, “Why was it hungry?”All good questions deserve an answer.

1 week ago | mdjonline.com | J. Mark Powell

The American lexicon was once filled with dozens, hundreds of charmingly quaint phrases that have now gone the way of the dodo. A particular favorite was, “There was enough food to feed Coxey’s army.” While your grandparents and great-grandparents would have understood it, saying it these days would be met with a puzzled expression followed by, “Who was Coxey?” “Why did he have an army?” And, the most practical of all, “Why was it hungry?”All good questions deserve an answer.

1 week ago | latrobebulletinnews.com | J. Mark Powell

The American lexicon was once filled with dozens, hundreds of charmingly quaint phrases that have now gone the way of the dodo. A particular favorite was, “There was enough food to feed Coxey’s army.” While your grandparents and great-grandparents would have understood it, saying it these days would be met with a puzzled expression followed by, “Who was Coxey?” “Why did he have an army?” And, the most practical of all, “Why was it hungry?”All good questions deserve an answer.

1 week ago | hammondstar.com | J. Mark Powell

The American lexicon was once filled with dozens, hundreds of charmingly quaint phrases that have now gone the way of the dodo. A particular favorite was, “There was enough food to feed Coxey’s army.”While your grandparents and great-grandparents would have understood it, saying it these days would be met with a puzzled expression followed by, “Who was Coxey?” “Why did he have an army?” and, the most practical of all, “Why was it hungry?”All good questions deserve an answer.