Quote of the day
The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
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)