THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Courage is not an ability one either possesses or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it.”

— Alfred Adler

BIRTHDAYS:

1708 Vaclav Jan Kopriva, Czech composer and organist, born in Cítoliby, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire. Offertorium ex D (Adagio – Allegro), and Missa pastoralis in D

1807 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist.

1828 Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright.

1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known elements, such as the valence and atomic weight of uranium, but also to predict the properties of three elements that were yet to be discovered (germanium, gallium, and scandium).

1906 Chester F. Carlson, American inventor (photocopying).

1932 John Williams, American composer and conductor. Imperial March (from “Star Wars”)

MISCELLANEOUS:

FURTHER PROOF OF ALIENS. NASA space telescope sees interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flare up while exiting the solar system.

REMINDER:

In the future, before locking things down again (including free speech and the freedom to assemble), the authorities should become acquainted with the following:

Nuremberg Code

Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

Great Barrington declaration