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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” — Thomas Jefferson BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, prominent Dutch natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor whose groundbreaking work advanced the fields of optics, mechanics,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?” — Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1743 Thomas Jefferson, “Author of the Declaration of American Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia”. 1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter. 1771 Richard Trevithick, English inventor…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1716 Felice Giardini, Italian composer, born in Turin, Duchy of Savoy. Quartett Nr.3, op. 25 in D-Dur. 1722 Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer, born in Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Violin Sonata No. 4…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” — C.S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Le Badin (Deuxieme Livre de Pieces), and Le Tombeau (Deuxieme Livre de…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Michael Corrette, French organist (Church of Sainte-Marie du Temple – Paris, 1737-91), composer, and educator. Serpent – Sonata n°1 Op.20 MISCELLANEOUS: THEY’RE BACK! Splashdown! Artemis…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1598 Johann Crüger [Jan Krygar], Sorbian-German cantor, hymn composer, editor (Praxis pietatis melica), and educator, born in Groß Breesen, Kingdom of Bohemia. Wie schöne leucht der Morgenstern 1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, German composer, born…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer, born in Correggio, Duchy of Modena and Reggio, Papal States. La zambeccara, and Cumque Beatissimus Marcus Evangelista, and Susanne un jour 1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.” — Wordsworth BIRTHDAYS: 1613 Gerrit Dou, Dutch baroque painter. 1622 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter. 1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, German organist, composer, and monk, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. 1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, German choirmaster and composer, baptized…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid” — James D. Watson BIRTHDAYS: 1651 André Dacier, French classical scholar and translator…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part…