THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1684 Jean-Antoine Watteau, French Rococo painter.

1700 Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor.

1713 Johann Ludwig Krebs, German organist and composer. Präludium und Fuge, d moll (KrebsWV 405)

1731 Henry Cavendish, England, physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen).

1738 Benjamin West, Anglo-American painter.

1813 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer best known for his operas. Patria oppressa, Macbeth, Nabucco – Hebrew Slaves Chorus

1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

1892 Earle Dickson, American inventor (Band-Aid).

1911 Clare Hollingworth, English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as “the scoop of the century”.

1921 James Clavell, Australian-born, British-raised and educated, naturalized-American writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.

1924 Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, artist, actress, choreographer and author.

1963 Daniel Pearl, American journalist (kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan).

MISCELLANEOUS:

MAYBE NO ONE EVER TOLD YOU. Inflation.

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.