Today is
Friday, December 13, 2013,
the 346th day of the year.

quote of the day:

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

George Santayana
1863-1952

happy birthday:

William Drummond (1585 — 1649).

Scottish poet.
Hawthornden, Scotland.

Heinrich Heine (1797 — 1856).

German poet and writer.
Düsseldorf, Prussia (now Germany).

Phillips Brooks (1835 — 1893).

American Episcopal clergyman.
Boston, Massachusetts.

George Pólya (1887 — 1985).

Hungarian mathematician.
Budapest, Hungary.