Today is
Thursday, July 24, 2014,
the 204th day of the year.

quote of the day:

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man, but it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

King Baudouin I
1930-1993

happy birthday:

Alexandre Dumas (1802 — 1870).

French novelist and playwright.
Villers-Cotterêts, France.

Gallagher, 67.

American comedian.
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.