Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Georg Ebers

Born: March 1, 1837
Died: August 7, 1898 (aged 61)
Bio: Georg Moritz Ebers, German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 1873 74.
Known for:
- An Egyptian Princess (1864)
- A thorny path (Per aspera)
- Homo sum (1880)
- The bride of the Nile (1886)
- The burgomaster's wife (1882)