THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

BIRTHDAYS:

1254 Marco Polo, Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

1572 Erasmus Widmann, German composer, born in Free Imperial City of Schwäbisch Hall, Holy Roman Empire. From “The Musical Mirror of Virtue”, and Renaissance Dances: Magdalena & Sybilla, and 5 Tänze

1613 François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French writer of maxims and memoirs.

1685 Gottfried Kirchhoff, German organist and composer, chiefly of sacred music, born in Mühlbeck, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Partimento-Prelude and Partimento-Fugue in A minor, and Partimento Prelude and Fugue in d minor

1736 Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer and author.

1852 Jan Matzeliger, Surinamese-Dutch-American inventor (shoe lasting machine).

1877 Max Factor, Polish-American make-up artist, inventor and founder of cosmetics manufacturer Max Factor & Company, born in Zduńska Wola, Poland, Russian Empire.

1890 Agatha Christie, English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world’s longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952.

1937 Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist (1995 Nobel Prize for Economics for rational expectations theory)

1945 Jessye Norman, American opera singer and recitalist. Ave Maria (Schubert)

MISCELLANEOUS:

IN A NUTSHELL. “I refuse to be a thespian in this failure theater.” (6:56)

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.