THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.”

— John Thomas Scopes

BIRTHDAYS:

1645 August Kuhnel, German composer and musician, born in Delmenhorst, County of Oldenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Aria X. “Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut”

1811 Elisha Otis, American industrialist and founder of the Otis Elevator Company. In 1853, he invented a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails.

1900 John T. Scopes, teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.

1924 Leon Uris, American novelist (Exodus; Topaz; QB VII).

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S GETTING CROWDED UP THERE. SpaceX’s Crew-11 astronauts arrive at the International Space Station (video)

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)