Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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)