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.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Born: August 8, 1922
Died: December 30, 2019 (aged 97)
Bio: Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography.
Known for:
- The de-moralization of society (1995)
- The moral imagination (2006)
- The new history and the old (1987)
- On Looking Into the Abyss (1994)