THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. And can never be restrained but by despotic governments.”

― George Mason

BIRTHDAYS:

1566 Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer. Requiem a 4 de Manuel Cardoso, and Lamentatio

1725 George Mason, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of three delegates present who refused to sign the Constitution.

1781 David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope)

1803 Hector Berlioz, French Romantic composer and conductor. La Damnation de Faust Op. 24 Marche Hongroise

1843 Robert Koch, Microbiologist

1863 Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.

1889 Walter Knott, American farmer who founded the Knott’s Berry Farm amusement park in California, introduced the Boysenberry, and made Knott’s Berry Farm boysenberry preserves.

1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer. A prominent Soviet dissident, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, in particular the Gulag system.

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