November 14, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

”Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.”

— Booker T. Washington

BIRTHDAYS:

1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (Georg Frideric Handel’s master), baptized in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. dich loben alle wir (LV 31), and Herr Gott dich loben wir (LV 4)

1719 Leopold Mozart, German composer and teacher of his son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Kindersinfonie

1765 Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially successful steamboat, the North River Steamboat (also known as Clermont).

1774 Gaspare Spontini, Italian opera composer and conductor. “La Vestale” Overture

1778 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian piano virtuoso and composer. Piano Quintet in E-flat minor Op.87

1797 Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth’s history.

1805 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, Charakterstücke aus “Das Jahr”

1840 Claude Monet, French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer of fiction and screenplays.

1947 P. J. O’Rourke, American author, journalist, and political satirist who wrote twenty-two books on subjects as diverse as politics, cars, etiquette, and economics.

1954 Condoleezza Rice, American diplomat and political scientist serving since 2020 as the 8th director of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

MISCELLANEOUS:

YES, EVIL IS REAL. Remember Peanut: A Treatise On Evil And Why The State Killing Of A Squirrel Matters So Much

SUGGESTED READING FOR FUTURE LOCKDOWNS:

PUBLISHED 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

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RELOCATION. The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide