“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”

― H.L. Mencken

1559 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter and architect

1688 Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor and carver of the Baroque era

1812 Richard Hoe, American inventor and industrialist

1829 Anselm Feuerbach, the leading neoclassical painter of the German 19th-century school.

1855 Jacobus of Looy, Dutch painter and writer.

1858 Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter and sculptor

1880 H. L. Mencken (the ‘Sage of Baltimore’), American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

1887 George Georgescu, Romanian conductor and composer. Romanian Rhapsodies no. 1 op. 11

1913 Jesse Owens, American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

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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