Quote of the day
Still falls the Rain —
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss —
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross.
Omar Mukhtar
Born: August 20, 1858
Died: September 16, 1931 (aged 73)
Bio: Omar Mukhtar, of the Mnifa, was born in the small village of Zanzour, near Tobruk in eastern Barqa in Libya. Beginning in 1912, he organized and, for nearly twenty years, led native resistance to Italian colonization of Libya.







