August 15, 2025

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We need to have a talk on the subject of what’s yours and what’s mine.”

— Stieg Larsson

BIRTHDAYS:

1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer, born in Salò, Lombardy, Republic of Venice. Addio, addio, o miel sospiri from Tancredi, and Quartet

1736 Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer, born in Gräfenroda, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony. Praeludium in C, and Preludium pro Organo pleno

1771 Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet, and historian.

1872 Rubin Goldmark, American pianist, and composer. Adon Olam, and Piano Quartet op. 12, I. Allegro non troppo ma con spirito

1890 Jacques Ibert, French composer. Carignane

1954 Stieg Larsson, Swedish writer, and journalist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION COLONISTS. SpaceX Only Lunar Missions After Artemis 3

THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND LOCKDOWNS BEGAN ON MARCH 15, 2020. THE TRAGEDY THAT ENSUED WAS ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. AND FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING DOING THIS AGAIN IN THE FUTURE – HERE IS A HOMEWORK READING ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU:

Nuremberg Code (1947)

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza (2006)

Great Barrington declaration (2020)

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