”A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.”

— Karl Kraus

BIRTHDAYS:

1874 Karl Kraus, Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

1868 Joel Engel, Russian musicologist (Jewish Folksongs), composer “Numi Numi”), and music publisher, born in Berdyansk, Russian Empire. Yaaleh, and Freylekhs Op. 21

1897 Kálmán Tihanyi, Hungarian physicist and engineer (invented cathode ray tube for television), born in Üzbég, Kingdom of Hungary.

1908 Oskar Schindler, German industrialist, humanitarian, and member of the Nazi Party who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in occupied Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

1922 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (The Guns of Navarone).

1926 Harper Lee, American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.

1928 Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet).

MISCELLANEOUS:

I ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH TO STRESS OUT ABOUT. Why you don’t need to stress about cortisol ruining your waistline—or your face.

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)