“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.”

― Samuel Adams

Birthdays:

1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, Italian organist and composer. Gaudeamus

1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, printmaker, poet, satirist, musician and actor.

1674 Nicholas Rowe, English poet, playwright, and Poet Laureate.

1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer. “Les oiseaux dans la charmille”, and Barcarolle

1833 Léon Bonnat, French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d’honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

1897 Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer who worked with fellow German playwright and director Bertolt Brecht.

1933 Peter T. Kirstein, “father of the European Internet”

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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