Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Douglas Mawson
Born: May 5, 1882
Died: October 14, 1958 (aged 76)
Bio: Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.