Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Rosita Forbes

Born: January 16, 1890
Died: June 30, 1967 (aged 77)
Bio: Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya, in a period when this was closed to westerners.
Known for:
- The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (1921)
- Unconducted wanderers (1919)
- Forbidden road--Kabul to Samarkand (1937)
- Women of all Lands (1938)