THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1591 Dirck Janszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer, baptized in Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Fantasia cromatica

1602 Philippe de Champaigne, French painter.

1731 Orazio Mei, Italian organist, and composer, born in Pisa, The Papal States. Sonata, Allegro & Allegro assai

1877 Isadora Duncan, American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States.

1949 Ward Cunningham, American computer programmer and inventor (the wiki)

MISCELLANEOUS:

WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS TAUGHT TO OWN UP TO MY MISTAKES? Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.

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)