THOUGHT OF THE DAY:
“What is progress? You might think that the question is so subjective and culturally relative as to be forever unanswerable. In fact, it’s one of the easier questions to answer. Most people agree that life is better than death. Health is better than sickness. Sustenance is better than hunger. Abundance is better than poverty. Peace is better than war. Safety is better than danger. Freedom is better than tyranny. Equal rights are better than bigotry and discrimination. Literacy is better than illiteracy. Knowledge is better than ignorance. Intelligence is better than dull-wittedness. Happiness is better than misery. Opportunities to enjoy family, friends, culture, and nature are better than drudgery and monotony. All these things can be measured. If they have increased over time, that is progress.”
— Steven Pinker
BIRTHDAYS:
1475 Michelangelo, known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.
1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Sonata in A minor (Baroque Cello, Portative Organ)
1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and optical lens manufacturer (studied Sun’s spectrum, invented the spectroscope).
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.
1857 George Dayton, Businessman and Founder of Target.
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