Like everybody, Mark Speckman multitasks. He talks on the cellphone while he drives. He surfs the Web while he fills out paperwork. Simple things, really.
Like fewer people, however, he was an outstanding high school athlete.
Like fewer still, he rose to a position of authority and became a great leader.
Like very few, his story was once [...]

1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed in Florida.
1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.
1805 Author Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark.
1860 The first Italian Parliament met at Turin.
1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
1872 Samuel [...]