August 15, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

― Milan Kundera

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish cartoonist and painter.

1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher.

1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Allegretto, and Sonata in D Major

1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer. Praeludium in C Dur

1771 Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet and historian.

1776 Gottlieb Schick, German painter.

1845 Walter Crane, English painter, cartoonist and illustrator.

1857 Albert Ballin, German inventor and shipping tycoon (inventor of the concept of the cruise ship).

1883 Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor and architect.

1890 Jacques Ibert, French composer. Entr’acte, and Carignane

1902 Jan Campert, Dutch resistance fighter and poet (Song the 18 dead)

1912 Julia Child, American chef, author and television personality.

1915 Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author and resistance fighter.

1954 Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer, journalist, and activist.

MISCELLANY:

SOME RECREATIONAL READING FOR THE NEXT LOCKDOWN:

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.

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