THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Honor is decency without vanity.”

― Arthur Koestler

BIRTHDAYS:

1662 Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter

1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (Complete Nonsense Book)

1820 Florence Nightingale, English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.

1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite figure poet and painter

1842 Jules Massenet, French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. Meditation from Thais for Violin and Piano

1845 Gabriel Fauré, French organist, composer (Requiem; Ballade), and educator (Paris Conservatoire, 1905-20). Pavane, Op. 50, and Apres un reve for violin and piano

1938 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer and dissident

1939 Charles Hull, American inventor (3D printing).

MISCELLANY:

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IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

RELATED. Nuremberg Code