Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
F. M. Powicke

Born: June 16, 1879
Died: May 19, 1963 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
Known for:
- The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 (1953)
- Handbook of British chronology (1939)
- The Loss of Normandy (1913)