THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

BIRTHDAYS:

1591 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker nicknamed “Lo Spagnoletto / the Little Spaniard”.

1628 Charles Perrault, French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Cinderella”, “Puss in Boots”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and “Bluebeard”.

1711 Gaetano Latilla, Italian opera composer, born in Bari, Kingdom of Naples. Sinfonia in Sol maggiore – III. Presto

1849 Jean Béraud, French Belle Époque painter, born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

1856 John Singer Sargent, American painter (Wyndham Sisters), born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

1964 Jeff Bezos, American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.

MISCELLANEOUS:

AND OTHER THINGS TOO IT SEEMS. 2026 is The year of the Singularity

REMINDER:

In the future, before lock.ing 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