Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
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)