THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

— Emma Lazarus

BIRTHDAYS:

1651 Ferdinand Tobias Richter, Austrian composer, born in Würzburg, Electorate of Bavaria. Toccata und Versette im 1° Ton., and Präludium und Fuge, h moll

1844 William Archibald Spooner, English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms).

1849 Emma Lazarus, American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet “The New Colossus”, which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883.

1882 Edward Hopper, American painter.

1908 Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette (“Complete Book of Etiquette”).

1922 John Francis Burke, American surgeon and co-inventor of artificial skin.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION CALIFORNIANS. Tesla Sales Could Be Suspended In California

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)