THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”

― Alan Dershowitz

BIRTHDAYS:

1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet.

1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher.

1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella. Cantate Domino

1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer. Procession of the Nobles, and Russian Easter Overture op. 36

1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, Romanian composer known for sacred choral works, and ethno-musicologist. Morarul, and O, ce veste minunată!, and Auzi, Doamne, glasul meu

1858 Rudolf Diesel, German inventor and mechanical engineer who is famous for having invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.

1879 Cluny MacPherson, physician and the inventor of an early gas mask.

1915 Richard Condon, American author (The Manchurian Candidate)

1922 Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist.

MISCELLANY:

I ADORE AYN RAND’S NOVEL’S, AND AGREE WITH MUCH OF HER PHILOSOPHY OF OBJECTIVISM. “Ayn Rand Said” Is Not an Argument

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 15 – 24

REMEMBER, THIS WAS PUBLISED IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

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