THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”

― Émile Zola

BIRTHDAYS:

1667 Jonathan Swift, Author, Poet and Satirist

1796 Carl Loewe, German composer. Ballade.

1835 Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

1872 John McCrae, Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during the First World War and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem “In Flanders Fields”.

1874 Winston Churchill. British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory.

1907 Jacques Barzun, French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history.

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