THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.”

— Montesquieu

BIRTHDAYS:

1543 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought madrigal music to England. Pavin

1689 Montesquieu, French philosopher and writer.

1779 Peter Mark Roget, a remarkable British polymath: a physician, scientist, natural theologian, lexicographer, and inventor. Today, he is best remembered as the creator of Roget’s Thesaurus, one of the most influential reference works in the English language.

1858 Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and hospital founder.

1882 A. A. Milne, English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children’s poetry.

MISCELLANEOUS:

IT WILL BE THE FIRST CREWED MISSION TO THE MOON SINCE APOLLO 17 IN 1972. Watch NASA roll huge Artemis 2 moon rocket out to the launch pad today

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