Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
F. M. Powicke

Born: June 16, 1879
Died: May 19, 1963 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, a professor at Belfast and Manchester, and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at Oxford. He was knighted in 1946.
Known for:
- The thirteenth century, 1216-1307 (1953)
- Handbook of British chronology (1939)
- The Loss of Normandy (1913)