THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”

— Naomi Wolf

BIRTHDAYS:

1493 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor patronized by the Medici, born in Florence.

1746 Tiradentes, leading member of the colonial Brazilian revolutionary movement known as the Inconfidência Mineira, whose aim was full independence from Portuguese rule and the creation of a republic.

1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer who served as a primary intellectual force in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement.

1817 Carlo Pedrotti, Italian composer, associate of Verdi, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire. “Giulietta mia, serenata”

1833 Alexander Borodin, Russian chemist and composer (Robert LeDiable), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

1962 Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

YES, THIS IS THE COOLEST THING YOU’LL SEE ALL DAY (AT LEAST THE DAYLIT SIDE). Live 4K video from space!

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