THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
“Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.”
— Frederick Douglass
BIRTHDAYS:
1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa.
1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian Renaissance composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Io mi son giovinetta
1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, born in Crema, Lombardy, Republic of Venice. “Incomprensibil Nume” from Act II of his Opera ‘Pompeo Magno’
1778 Fernando Sor, Spanish classical guitarist, and composer. Fantaisie Élégiaque op. 59
1804 Otis Tufts, American machinist and inventor who built printing machines, steam engines, firefighting equipment and invented the steam pile driver.
1818 Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
1819 Christopher Latham Sholes, American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, and, along with Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended to be one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States.
1867 Sakichi Toyoda, Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries).
1878 Julius Nieuwland, Belgian-American chemist (inventor of 1st synthetic rubber neoprene)
1917 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry (Nobel 1985)
1948 Teller, American magician. He is half of the comedy magic duo Penn & Teller, along with Penn Jillette, and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute.
1869 Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel)
MISCELLANEOUS:
I THINK HE’S RIGHT. I Predict Humans Will Land on Mars by 2030.
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
RELATED. Nuremberg Code
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