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.
Giovanni Battista Beccaria

Born: October 3, 1716
Died: May 27, 1781 (aged 64)
Bio: Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist, was born at Mondovì, and entered the religious Order of the Pious Schools or Piarists, in 1732, where he studied, and afterward taught, grammar and rhetoric.