”A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”

— Robert Browning

BIRTHDAYS:

1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women’s rights and abolitionism.

1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.

1833 Johannes Brahms, German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Intermezzo Opus 118 nr2, and Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 (22:41)

1840 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer during the Romantic period. The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers, and Piano Concerto No. 1 (37:50)

1909 Edwin Land, American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation.

MISCELLANEOUS:

UMBRELLA SALES ARE THROUGH THE ROOF, SO TO SPEAK. Old Soviet Venus lander’s fall to Earth will be no ordinary space junk crash. Here’s why

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)