Quote of the day
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Richard Proenneke
Born: May 4, 1916
Died: April 20, 2003 (aged 86)
Bio: Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke was an amateur naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.