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.
N. G. L. Hammond

Born: November 15, 1907
Died: March 24, 2001 (aged 93)
Bio: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond was a British scholar of ancient Greece and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive in occupied Greece during World War II.
Known for:
- The genius of Alexander the Great (1997)
- A history of Greece to 322 B.C. (1959)
- The Macedonian State (1989)
- Three Historians of Alexander the Great (1983)
- Sources for Alexander the Great (1993)