THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.”

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

BIRTHDAYS:

1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria sub elevatione, and Sonata in A mino

1785 Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer, conductor (Warsaw Opera, 1810-40), and pedagogue. Clarinet Concerto in B flat major

1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and optical lens manufacturer. He developed diffraction grating and also invented the spectroscope.

1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death.

1947 John Stossel, American libertarian, TV presenter, author, and political activist.

MISCELLANEOUS:

THE 21ST CENTURY HAS ARRIVED. USA and Israel Combat Lasers Shooting Down Drones in the Iran War

BEFORE THE NEXT LOCK DOWN (INCLUDING VIOLATING FREE SPEECH AND THE FREEDOM TO ASSEMBLE), THE AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO READ THE FOLLOWING: