Quote of the day
His own image... was no longer the reflection of a clumsy, dirty, gray bird, ugly and offensive. He himself was a swan! Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Carlos Eire

Born: November 23, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: Carlos M. N. Eire is the T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University. He is a historian of late medieval and early modern Europe.
Known for:
- Waiting for Snow in Havana (2003)
- A Very Brief History of Eternity (2009)
- War against the idols (1986)






