THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

”Renaîtra un poète! Je t’aime, Hoffmann! Sois à moi!” (“A poet will be reborn! I love you, Hoffmann! Be mine!”)

— Nicklausse, “The Tales of Hoffmann” (Jacques Offenbach)

BIRTHDAYS:

1585 Lazaro Valvasensi, Italian organist and composer, born in Valvasone, Republic of Venice. Gaudeamus

1615 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician and actor, born in Arenella, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Habsburg.

1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor.

1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffmann). Orpheus in the Underworld: Can Can, and Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Barcarolle

1833 Léon Bonnat, French painter.

1933 Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist ‘European father of the internet’ (Internet Protocol).

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Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)