Extraordinary People

Some inspiring stories about extraordinary people.

Eric Clapton’s Touching Video Memorial To Blues Legend B.B. King

Eric Clapton’s Touching Video Memorial To Blues Legend B.B. King

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit Blues legend B.B. King “passed peacefully in his sleep at 9:40 pm Pacific time May 14 2015” according to the official B.B. King website. Mr. King was 89 years old. His daughter, Patty King, told CNN he died in Las Vegas where he had been receiving home hospice […]

Heart-Wrenching Photo That Shows The Painful Cost Of War

Heart-Wrenching Photo That Shows The Painful Cost Of War

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit With the upcoming election and the daily routine of life, it is all too easy to forget the recent cost of our foreign wars and the seemingly ever-present possibility of war. Moreover, all too often we forget to consider the cost of war – the tragic loss of […]

Jonathan Pitre, The Butterfly Child: ‘I Will Win This War, I Will Never Give Into The Pain’ – VIDEO

Jonathan Pitre, The Butterfly Child: ‘I Will Win This War, I Will Never Give Into The Pain’ – VIDEO

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit “Even when I’m sleeping, I still feel that pain. The pain is like somewhere inside my head and I can always know it’s there. It’s always pushing me to my limits and it’s always pushing me past my limits.”1 ~ Jonathan Pitre TSN: People with your condition, they […]

CEO Raises His Workers’ Minimum Pay to $70,000 By Slashing His Own Salary – VIDEO

CEO Raises His Workers’ Minimum Pay to $70,000 By Slashing His Own Salary – VIDEO

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit A Seattle entrepreneur announced on Monday that he was raising the minimum salary at his company to $70,000 and reducing his own pay to the same amount from the current level of about $1 million. Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, told the CBS Evening News that […]

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

9-Year-Old Girl Shames Florida School Board – VIDEO

Share on Facebook Twitter Google+ E-mail Reddit 9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board […]