THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

― Ursula K. LeGuin

BIRTHDAYS:

1581 Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter

1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

1807 Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer, String Quintet in C – moll, mvt.1 Allegro moderato

1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for creating dynamite as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize.

1843 Mark Antokolsky, Russian sculptor

1914 Martin Gardner, American mathematician and scientific writer (Scientific American math & puzzles columnist)

1929 Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi author

MISCELLANY:

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