Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Paul Blanshard

Born: August 27, 1892
Died: January 27, 1980 (aged 87)
Bio: Paul Beecher Blanshard was an American author, assistant editor of The Nation magazine, lawyer, socialist, secular humanist, and from 1949 an outspoken critic of Catholicism.
Known for:
- American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949)
- Communism, Democracy And Catholic Power (1951)
- Classics of Free Thought (1977)
- An outline of the British labor movement (1923)
- Irish and catholic power (1953)