Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Born: June 25, 1904
Died: June 4, 1976 (aged 71)
Bio: John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history.
Known for:
- The Ottoman centuries
- Atatürk, the rebirth of a nation (1964)
- Grand Tour: Diary of an Eastward Journey (1935)
- The Windsor years (1967)






