“The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.”

― Milan Kundera

Birthdays:

1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter.

1671 Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician.

1854 Alexander Kopylov, Russian imperial composer and violinist. Heavenly Light, and Chant sans paroles, and Valse, Op.6

1868  Gertrude Bell, English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator and archaeologist.

1868 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish screenwriter and film and theatre director.

MISCELLANY:

SAD NEWS. Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being author, dies aged 94

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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

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