January 18, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The political liberty, of the subject, (separation of powers), is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of [their] safety. In order to have this liberty. It is requisite the government be so constituted as one [person] need not to be afraid of another.”

― Montesquieu

BIRTHDAYS:

1543 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought madrigal music to England. Pavan I (fragment), and Poi ch’io non posso Amore

1689 Montesquieu, French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher.

1779 Peter Mark Roget, British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus)

1841 Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer. España

1858 Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon who founded Provident Hospital in 1891. It was the first non-segregated hospital in the United States.

1882 A. A. Milne, English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children’s poetry.

MISCELLANY:

YES THAT JOHN DEERE. John Deere Partners With Elon Musk’s Starlink To Unlock “Vast Opportunities”

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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