THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“Exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by another.”

— Walter Williams

BIRTHDAYS:

1633 Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter and etcher, born in Haarlem, Dutch Republic.

1705 Nicolas Chédeville, French musette player and maker, and composer. Sonata in G minor, from ‘Il Pastor Fido Op.13’

1791 Carl Czerny, Czech-Austrian pianist, composer (Schule der Virtuosen), student of Ludwig van Beethoven, and teacher of Franz Liszt. Op.740 (18, 4, 24, 13, 33, 45, 50)

1805 Angelina Grimké, American abolitionist, political activist, women’s rights advocate, and supporter of the women’s suffrage movement.

1844 Ludwig Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (thermodynamics).

1901 René Dubos, French-American microbiologist and author (1969 Pulitzer Prize, made famous “Think globally, act locally”)

1902 Ansel Adams, American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West.

1912 Pierre Boulle, French author known for “The Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Planet of the Apes”).

1921 Joseph A. Walker, American World War II pilot, experimental physicist, NASA test pilot, and astronaut who was the first person to fly an airplane to space.

1926 Richard Matheson, American author known for “I Am Legend”.

MISCELLANEOUS:

GRAB A KLEENEX. Milei giving Elon a golden chainsaw

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FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

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