Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
George Eulas Foster

Born: September 3, 1847
Died: December 30, 1931 (aged 84)
Bio: Sir George Eulas Foster was a Canadian politician and academic. He coined the phrase "splendid isolation" to praise British foreign policy in the late 19th century.