THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

― Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus

BIRTHDAYS:

1597 Virgilio Mazzocchi, Italian composer, born in Veja, Viterbo, Papal States. Lagrime Amare (La Maddalena ricorre alle lagrime), and Adsunt dies

1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer, born in Würzburg, Electorate of Bavaria. Sonata a7

1755 Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician, produced logarithmic and trigonometric tables.

1784 Friedrich Bessel, German astronomer and mathematician, and first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the sun to another star by the method of parallax

1844 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms).

1849 Emma Lazarus, American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes.

1882 Edward Hopper, American painter.

1898 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author, 1928 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “John Brown’s Body”

1908 Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette.

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READ THESE BEFORE THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

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.