Quote of the day
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Peter Stuyvesant
Born: 1612
Died: 1672 (aged 60)
Bio: Peter Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.