THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

— Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

BIRTHDAYS:

1591 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker.

1628 Charles Perrault, French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé.

1715 Jacques Duphly, French composer and harpsichordist. Troisième Livre de pièces de clavecin

1822 Étienne Lenoir, Belgian-French engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858.

1849 Jean Béraud, French Belle Époque painter.

1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (tensor analysis).

1856 John Singer Sargent, American painter.

1876 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian composer and teacher. Il segreto di Susanna: Ouverture

1912 Ivan Getting, American physicist and engineer (developed Global Positioning System).

1942 Michael Mayor, Swiss astrophysicist (discovered 1st exoplanet).

1964 Jeff Bezos, American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

MISCELLANEOUS:

COVID 19 LOCKDOWNS – REQUIRED READING.

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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