Quote of the day
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
Mark Mazower

Born: February 20, 1958 (age 66)
Bio: Mark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.
Known for:
- Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (1998)
- Hitler's empire (2008)
- Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012)
- Salonica, city of ghosts (2004)
- The Balkans (2002)