Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
V. Gordon Childe
Born: April 14, 1892
Died: October 19, 1957 (aged 65)
Bio: Vere Gordon Childe, better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialized in the study of European prehistory.
Known for:
- Man makes himself (1936)
- What happened in history (1942)
- New light on the most ancient East (1928)
- Dawn of European civilization (1925)
- The bronze age (1930)