THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”

― Khalil Gibran

BIRTHDAYS:

1695 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer. Recorder concerto in F major

1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist

1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor

1872 Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer. Sonata-Fantasia in G-sharp Minor, op. 19, and Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28

1883 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist.

1905 Eric Frank Russell, British sci-fi author

1955 Rowan Atkinson, English actor, comedian and writer.

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