Quote of the day
It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
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.