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.
Kliment Timiryazev

Born: May 22, 1843
Died: April 28, 1920 (aged 76)
Bio: Kliment Arkadievich Timiryazev was a Russian botanist and physiologist and a major proponent of the Evolution Theory of Charles Darwin in Russia. He founded a faculty of vegetable physiology and a laboratory at the Petrovskoye Academy.