Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Samuel Eliot Morison
Born: July 9, 1887
Died: May 15, 1976 (aged 88)
Bio: Samuel Eliot Morison was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and highly popular. He received his Ph.D.
Known for:
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942)
- The Oxford history of the American people (1965)
- The European Discovery of America (1971)