Quote of the day
Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
Thomas Bracken
Born: December 21, 1843
Died: February 16, 1898 (aged 54)
Bio: Thomas Bracken was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician.
Known for:
- Lays of the land of the Maori and Moa (1884)
- Abraham Lincoln
- The New Zealand Tourist (1879)
- Musings in Maoriland (1890)