THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”

— Marcus Aurelius

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Daniel Defoe, English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy.

1673 Hercule Brehy, Flemish composer and organist.

1751 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter and cartoonist

1755 Oliver Evans, American inventor, engineer, and businessman who pioneered high-pressure steam engine

1819 Clara Schumann, German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17: III. Andante

1831 Andrew Noble, Scottish physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics

1855 Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer, and painter.

1857 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolatier, businessman, and philanthropist.

1874 Arnold Schoenberg, Theme & Variations for Wind Ensemble, Op. 43a

1886 Alain LeRoy Locke, African-American writer and philosopher “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”

1916 Roald Dahl, British author of popular children’s literature and short stories, a poet, screenwriter and a wartime fighter ace.

1938 Judith Martin, better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American columnist, author, and etiquette authority.

MISCELLANEOUS:

LOOK! A SQUIRREL! A Statistical Mystery: Why Does the FBI Under-Report Defensive Gun Uses?

HERE’S 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.