Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Isaac Levitan
Born: August 30, 1860
Died: August 4, 1900 (aged 39)
Bio: Isaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape."
Known for:
- Autumn day. Sokolniki (1879)
- Golden Autumn (1895)
- Autumn. Road in a Village (1877)
- Village in Winter (1877)
- Above the Eternal Peace