Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
George R. Stewart

Born: May 31, 1895
Died: August 22, 1980 (aged 85)
Bio: George Rippey Stewart was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Known for:
- Earth Abides (1949)
- Ordeal by Hunger (1936)
- The Pioneers Go West (1954)