THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

BIRTHDAYS:

1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States.

1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry).

1591 Robert Herrick, 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric.

1579 John Amner, English composer. “Come, Let’s Rejoice”

1683 Meinrad Spiess, German sacred music composer, Benedictine priest, and music theorist, born in Honsolgen, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Kyrie und Dies irae aus der Missa pro Defunctis

1759 William Wilberforce, British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.

1817 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and playwright.

1842 Edouard J. A. Agneessens, Flemish painter

1957 Stephen Fry, English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S ALL GOOD. What if SpaceX Can Start Deploying Starlink Version 3 Satellites With Starship Later This Year?

SEEMS LIKE A REASONABLE QUESTION. What is Objectivism?

IN THE FUTURE BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE) THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT ALSO WANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration