”Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H. L. Mencken

BIRTHDAYS:

1614 Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, Italian composer. “Perche dolce bambino”

1677 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly)

1690 Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, German composer. Toccata prima et due Fugae in d, and Fugue in g minor, and Rigaudon in F Major

1824 Gustave Boulanger, French painter.

1854 Charles Sumner Tainter, American inventor of sound-recording instruments (graphophone, dictaphone)

1874 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and electrical engineer (invented radio).

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, April 25 – May 4

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. TO ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)