THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.”

— Montesquieu

BIRTHDAYS:

1669 Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor.

1694 Louis-Claude Daquin [d’Acquin], French organist and composer (La Rose. X. Noël, and Le Coucou

1776 The United States of America, a country, a country whose beginning is unique in all of human history.

1804 Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer.

1807 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy.

1847 James Anthony Bailey, American owner and manager of several 19th-century circuses, including the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (also billed as “The Greatest Show on Earth”).

1872 Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, serving from 1923 to 1929.

1883 Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.

1904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American Yiddish writer.

1950 Steven Sasson, American electrical engineer and the inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera.

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ATTENTION COLONISTS. Blue Origin and America’s spacefaring future

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I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. XAI Grok 4 Should Release This Weekend

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 A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

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

Great Barrington declaration (2020)