Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
Giacomo Meyerbeer

Born: September 5, 1791
Died: May 2, 1864 (aged 72)
Bio: Giacomo Meyerbeer was a German opera composer of Jewish birth who has been described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the nineteenth century. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'.