THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.”

— Blaise Pascal

BIRTHDAYS:

1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, German Baroque composer, born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. Sonata in G minor, and Sonata da camera Op.1 no.1

1790 John Gibson, British sculptor.

1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

1814 Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter.

1856 Elbert Hubbard, American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher (Message to Garcia).

1947 Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British and American novelist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION COLONISTS. Mars Terraforming Within 40 Years for Plants and No Spacesuits

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)