THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

― Primo Levi

BIRTHDAYS:

1704 Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor, opera composer. Trio Sonata A Major GraunWV B:XV:62, Adagio, Allegro

1711 David Hume, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist.

1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women’s rights and abolitionism.

1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright.

1833 Johannes Brahms, German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G Minor

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the Romantic period. Piano Concerto no.1 (36:15)

1909 Edwin Land, American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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