THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

— Horace

BIRTHDAYS:

1659 Henry Purcell, English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream called The Fairy Queen. Rondeau from Abdelazer, and Dido’s Lament (Dido and Aeneas), and Sound the Trumpet, and Chaconne (The Fairy Queen)

1941 Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

1948 Charles Simonyi, Hungarian-American software architect, businessman, and space tourist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT’S ALIENS. NASA finds clearest sign of life on Mars: US space chief reveals discovery 30 years in the making

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