THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”

— Adlai Stevenson

BIRTHDAYS:

1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer, baptized in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Libera me Domine (fragment), and Dixit Dominus

1810 P. T. Barnum, American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding with James Anthony Bailey the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: “I am a showman by profession … and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.”

1867 A. E. Douglass, American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle, and founded the discipline of dendrochronology, which is a method of dating wood by analyzing the growth ring pattern.

1889 Jean Cocteau, French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

1958 William “Bill” Watterson, American cartoonist known for being author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE ISS. Seeing ‘fireworks’ on Earth from space | On the ISS this week June 26 – July 4, 2025

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)