THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

— G.K. Chesterton

BIRTHDAYS:

1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music composer, born in Lodi, Duchy of Milan. Sanctus dalla Missa Primi Toni Brevis

1566 Angelo Notari, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. 6 Ben qui si mostra il ciel

1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter.

1875 Albert Schweitzer, was a remarkable German-French polymath: a theologian, philosopher, physician, musician (especially renowned as an organist and Bach scholar), humanitarian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

1882 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-American historian and writer (Story of America), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands

1886 Hugh Lofting, English writer and illustrator (Dr. Doolittle).

1927 John Mallard, English medical physicist (developed MRI and PET scans), born in Northampton, England

MISCELLANEOUS:

TECHNOLOGY. Iran Jamming of Starlink and Ways to Overcome Jamming.

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