Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)