THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

— Will Durant

BIRTHDAYS:

1761 Yevstigney Fomin, Russian opera composer. Dance of the Furies from opera «Orfeo ed Euridice», and The song of Orfeo from “Orfeo”

1795 Heinrich August Marschner, German opera composer, born in Zittau, Saxony. Infernal scene from Der Vampyr

1905 Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and cryptologist (1st to break German Enigma code), born in Bromberg, German Empire.

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION STARGAZERS. This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 15 – 24

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)