Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Steven Runciman

Born: July 7, 1903
Died: November 1, 2000 (aged 97)
Bio: Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman, known as Steven Runciman, was an English historian best known for his three-volume A History of the Crusades.
Known for:
- A History of the Crusades
- Fall of Constantinople, 1453- (1965)
- The Sicilian Vespers (1958)
- The Great Church in Captivity (1968)






