History! History is the systematic study of the retrospective; we humans judge our fellow beings descending from the past often with black and white notions. This black and white thinking gives a rather simplified approach of viewing events and individuals. Perhaps this is done subconsciously to make it easier for us to swallow the endless number of individual and incidents. Despite the prevailing method there is still a shade of grayness residing over history; some individuals fall into this category;...

History! History is often said to be shaped by the actions of individuals; by that aphorism you can rightly conclude that it had its fair share of interesting individuals. Well this puts me in the beautiful place of selecting a person. Doing such a task is harder than one might see on the surface. I can’t speak for everyone else but for me one individual stick out in the wide crowd of excellence. Thomas Paine; his name will forever be etched in my heart. An average person will never give...