Day 1,970: prodigious

The construction of the Panama Canal was a prodigious undertaking which many thought could never be completed.

Artwork of the day 
Ernst and Eduard Eichhorn, violin prodigies
Josef_Kriehuber
Original Title: Ernst Und Eduard Eichhorn, Geigende Wunderkinder
Date: 1831
Style: Biedermeier
Series: Family portraits
Genre: portrait
Media: lithography

Word of the day 
prodigious : enormous: amazing: extraordinary 

Quote of the day
“My only love sprung from my only hate!

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

Prodigious birth of love it is to me,

That I must love a loathed enemy.”

― William Shakespeare