THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

— Aldous Huxley

BIRTHDAYS:

1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, youngest child of six born to composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his wife Constanze and the younger of his parents’ two surviving children. Cantata “The first day of spring”, op. 28 (22:56), and Cantate to Joseph Haydn’s 73rd birthday (23:56)

1856 George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

1875 Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.

1894 Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher.

1928 Stanley Kubrick, American filmmaker and photographer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, G.B. SHAW. Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra 1976

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STANLEY KUBRICK. 2001: A Space Odyssey docking sequence

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)