THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

BIRTHDAYS:

1550 John Napier, Scottish mathematician (the 8th Laird of Merchiston, near Edinburgh) best known for inventing logarithms, one of the most important mathematical tools in history.

1669 Miguel Lopez, Spanish composer and organist. Oye enamorado

1673 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer, born in Venice, Republic of Venice. Concerto in re minore per oboe e orchestra

1690 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer. Ouverture n. 6 in sol minore

1801 Thomas Cole, Anglo-American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement.

1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer and Soviet dissident (We).

1916 Gordon Hobday, English scientist (developed penicillin with Alexander Fleming, worked on Ibuprofen)

MISCELLANEOUS:

ATTENTION HOME SCHOOLERS. Why Governors Are Opting-In To School Choice At Record Speed.

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