Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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)