THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”

— Thomas Sowell

BIRTHDAYS:

1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Marche du triomphe from Tancrède. Tanz aus Hesione Aimable vainqueur. and L’Allemande, and Le Carnaval de Venise (22:30), and Florete prata, frondete lilia (9:02)

1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer. Cantate “La mort de Didon” (12:22), and La Bergère (8:17)

1795 Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher from the Scottish Lowlands. A leading writer of the Victorian era, he exerted a profound influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy.

1835 Samuel Butler, English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872).

1858 Chester Greenwood, American engineer and inventor, known for inventing the earmuffs in 1873.

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