Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Yaqut al-Hamawi

Born: 1179
Died: August 27, 1229 (aged 50)
Bio: Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī was an Arab biographer and geographer of Greek origin, renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world.