THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything … it amounts to … a gross violation of human liberty.”

― Tibor R. Machan

BIRTHDAYS:

1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor

1584 Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter

1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Flemish composer. Trio sonata F major, op.2, no.2

1736 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer. “La Hagenmeister”

1786 Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the early Romantic period. Oberon

1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography.

1797 Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women’s rights, and alcohol temperance.

1836 W. S. Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan, which produced fourteen comic operas. “I have a song to sing, O!” (The Yeomen of the Guard)

1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer and statesman who was a spokesman for Polish independence. “Menuet” in G, and Nocturne in B-flat major, Op. 16 No. 4

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

Yes, the following is on the website for the Bulgarian Association for Pathology (BPAP). As near as I can tell, the Canadian website was taken down.

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

RELATED. Nuremberg Code

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