Quote of the day
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
Charles Richard Weld

Born: August, 1813
Died: January 15, 1869 (aged 55)
Bio: Charles Richard Weld was an English writer, known as a historian of the Royal Society.
Known for:
- A history of the Royal society (1848)
- A Vacation in Brittany (1856)
- The Pyrenees, West and East (1859)