”There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.”

— Albert Jay Nock

BIRTHDAYS:

1756 Wojciech Żywny, Polish pianist, composer, and Chopin’s first piano teacher. Polonez

1794 Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter.

1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. The Long Day Closes

1866 Ottokar Eugen Novacek, Hungarian composer and violinist of Czech descent, born in Weißkirchen, Austrian Empire. Perpetuum mobile

1886 Joseph Achron, Lithuanian-American concert violinist and composer (Golem Suite), born in Lozdzieje, Russian Empire. Hebrew Melody

1901 Witold Pilecki, Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.

1937 Trevor Baylis, English inventor of the wind-up radio.

1937 Roger Zelazny, American poet and sci-fi author.

1943 Eve Babitz, American artist and author.

MISCELLANEOUS:

DOES EVERY GENERATION NEED TO LEARN THIS THE HARD WAY? Handshake Across the Atlantic

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)