THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.”

— Rudyard Kipling

BIRTHDAYS:

1566 Alessandro Piccinini, Italian lutenist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Toccata VII

1678 William Croft, British composer and organist. “Sonata in sol maggiore”

1865 Rudyard Kipling, English poet, short-story writer, novelist, and journalist whose prolific output celebrated British imperial administration, the lives of soldiers and civilians in India, and children’s adventures, drawing from his birth and early years in Bombay under the Raj.

1942 Vladimir Bukovsky, Soviet dissident, human rights activist, and author (To Build a Castle) renowned for his defiance against the communist regime, enduring a total of twelve years in prisons, labor camps, and psychiatric hospitals.

MISCELLANEOUS:

SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW. Vladimir Bukovsky

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities might want to reacquaint themselves with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration