Quote of the day
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.
Carl O. Sauer

Born: December 24, 1889
Died: July 18, 1975 (aged 85)
Bio: Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer. Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957.
Known for:
- The Early Spanish Main (1966)
- Agricultural origins and dispersals
- Colima of New Spain in the sixteenth century (1948)
- Northern mists (1968)







