Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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.







