”Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”

— Richard P. Feynman

BIRTHDAYS:

1731 Johann Gottfried Seyfert, German composer and violinist, born in Augsburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Sinfonia D-Dur

1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer, born in Vamberk, Kingdom of Bohemia. Sonata quasi una fantasia b-moll op.20.

1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter.

1824 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor.

1827 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter.

1854 Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-American inventor who invented the linotype machine that revolutionized printing, born in Hachtel, Kingdom of Württemberg.

1918 Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist.

1927 Mort Sahl, American stand-up comedian, political satirist, writer, and TV personality.

1946 Robert Jarvik, American scientist and researcher (developed the Jarvik-7 artificial heart).

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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)