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.
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.