Quote of the day
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
Robert Peary
Born: May 6, 1856
Died: February 20, 1920 (aged 63)
Bio: Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. was an American explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
Known for:
- Secrets of polar travel (1917)
- Snowland folk
- The North Pole (1910)