Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Bruce Mazlish

Born: September 15, 1923
Died: November 27, 2016 (aged 93)
Bio: Bruce Mazlish was an American historian who was a professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- The New Global History (2006)
- The Fourth Discontinuity (1993)
- Civilization and its contents (2004)
- Global history reader (2005)
- The Uncertain Sciences (1998)