Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Donald Kagan

Born: May 1, 1932
Died: August 6, 2021 (aged 89)
Bio: Donald Kagan was an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He taught in the Department of History at Cornell University.
Known for:
- The Western Heritage (1979)
- On the Origins of War (1995)
- The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (1969)
- The Archidamian war (1974)