Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"An American invents as the Italian paints and the Greeks sculpted." -- a foreign visitor to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 ( thanks to pockethedgehog for quoting it where I managed to see it)

[Smacks a little of exceptionalism? Maybe. Overlooks the many important inventors who weren't/aren't American? Fer shure. But c'mon, it's our national holiday -- if I should get any slack for such things, it'd be today, right? Happy Independence Day to all my countrymen, native, naturalized, or still working on it -- and to everyone else just celebrating along with us!]