Quote of the day
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Anne Askew
Born: 1521
Died: July 26, 1546 (aged 25)
Bio: Anne Askew was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic in England in the reign of King Henry VIII. She is the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.