THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.”

— Friedrich Schiller

BIRTHDAYS:

1483 Martin Luther, German theologian, Augustinian friar, professor of theology, and seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.

1668 François Couperin, French composer and organist. Treizième Concert, and Allemande

1697 William Hogarth, English satiric painter and engraver.

1759 Frederich von Schiller, German poet and lyricist (Ode to Joy), born in Marbach am Neckar, Kingdom of Württemberg. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 9 ‘Ode to Joy’

1880 Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor

MISCELLANEOUS:

HAVEN-1. Why commercial space stations are the next frontier

IN THE FUTURE, BEFORE LOCKING THINGS DOWN AGAIN (INCLUDING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES MIGHT WANT TO THEMSELVES WITH THE FOLLOWING:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration