THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The name was supposed to be ‘Googol,’ which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.”

— Sergey Brin

BIRTHDAYS:

1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter.

1751 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, born in Neustadt near Coburg, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire.

1872 Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator and author.

1879 Claude Grahame-White, English pioneer of aviation, and the first to make a night flight, during the Daily Mail-sponsored 1910 London to Manchester air race.

1967 Stéphane Charbonnier, French satirical caricaturist and journalist.

1973 Sergey Brin, American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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)