Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
Aleš Hrdlička
Born: March 29, 1869
Died: September 5, 1943 (aged 74)
Bio: Aleš Hrdlička was a Czech anthropologist who lived in the United States after his family had moved there in 1881. He was born in Humpolec, Bohemia and given a baptismal name "Alois", which he later changed into a more patriotic form "Aleš".







