THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.”

― Laurie Halse Anderson

BIRTHDAYS:

1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States.

1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry.

1579 John Amner, English composer

1591 Robert Herrick, English poet

1683 Meinrad Spiess, German sacred music composer, Benedictine priest, and music theorist, born in Honsolgen, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Kyrie und Dies irae aus der Missa pro Defunctis

1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch scholar, mathematician and astronomer.

1759 William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade.

1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and playwright.

1842 Edouard J. A. Agneessens, Flemish painter

MISCELLANEOUS:

I SUSPECT THE FAMILIES OF TWO ASTRONAUTS ARE VERY RELIEVED TO HEAR THIS. Boeing Starliner returning empty as NASA turns to SpaceX to bring astronauts back from ISS

HERE’S A LITTLE 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.