THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.”

— Alexander Fleming

BIRTHDAYS:

1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was achieved without support from the Church or consistent patronage from the nobility. Che si può fare op. 8, and Lagrime Mie, and Le tre Grazie a Venere

1664 Johann Christoph Schmidt, German composer, born in Ansbach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Ouverture (excerpt), and Overture from Suite in C, and Chaconne

1809 Alfred Tennyson, English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign.

1881 Alexander Fleming, Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world’s first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.

1934 Piers Anthony, English sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor).

1943 Jon Postel, American computer scientist known as “the god of the internet”.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF “THAT WHICH IS SEEN, AND THAT WHICH IS NOT SEEN”. Why the Poor Pay More

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)