“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Birthdays:

1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath.

1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, lutenist, and singer of the early Baroque era. le Seste musiche

1723 Pedro Rodríguez de Campomanes y Pérez, 1st Count of Campomanes, Spanish economist and literary.

1725 Comte de Rochambeau, Commander-in-chief of the French Expeditionary Force sent by France to help the American Continental Army fight against British forces.

1869 William Strunk Jr., American grammarian and author (The Elements of Style).

1906 Estée Lauder, American businesswoman.

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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