Quote of the Day

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Fact of the Day

90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.