THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

BIRTHDAYS:

1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer who discovered four of Saturn’s moons, born in Perinaldo, Republic of Genova

1810 Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music. Papillons, Op.2, and Piano Concerto (31:20)

1829 John Everett Millais, English painter.

1849 Julien Dillens, Flemish sculptor.

1957 Scott Adams, American cartoonist (Dilbert) and author.

1867 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, designer, writer, and educator.

1916 Francis Crick, English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist. He, James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins played crucial roles in deciphering the helical structure of the DNA molecule.

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE FUTURE. Peter Diamandis

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)