Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
John Prebble

Born: June 23, 1915
Died: January 30, 2001 (aged 85)
Bio: John Edward Curtis Prebble was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history.
Known for:
- The Highland Clearances (1963)
- Culloden (1961)
- Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre (1961)
- The Darien Disaster (1968)






