THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.”

— Paul Allen

BIRTHDAYS:

1775 Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer. El Contrabandista, and Misa nº 1 en La Mayor: Agnus Dei.

1953 Paul Allen, an American businessman, computer programmer and investor. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which was followed by the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

1659 Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter, engraver and architect.

MISCELLANEOUS:

MAYBE IT WILL BE ALLOWED AGAIN IN MODERN PERSIA? What did 1,400 BC sound like in ancient Persia?

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