Yesterday was sort of uninteresting from my point ... There was Robert Gibbs, the guy who gives Obama's talking points and random assortment of other celebrities ...
Today on the other hand has an amazing diversity of personalities ... Franscesco Goya, Robert Bunsen and for the cricket fanatics, Wally Grout (wiki gives another date but other references (more reliable ones)mention the current date)
Grout was one of the greatest wicketkeeper of all times ... Unparalleled, Australia never lost a series with him keeping... Died of a heart attack at an young age of 39... Robert Bunsen, the consummate lecturer and fantastic professor, designer of the bunsen burner was one of those quiet yet brilliant guys. Not many realize that he was one of the pioneers of spectroscopy. He refused to patent his invention (though cud have become immensely rich by it) preferring development of science to making money...
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- "you have been bred a merchant and I, a scholar; you consequently love money better than I. You can find pleasure in superfluity; i am perfectly content with what is sufficient. Take therefore what is yours; it may give you some pleasure, even though you have no occasion to use it; my happiness it cannot improve, for I have already all that I want" - Lien Chi Altangi
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