THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality”

— Ayn Rand

BIRTHDAYS:

1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. O Vos Omnes

1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Holy Roman Empire. Cello Concerto in A Minor Wq 170

1822 Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish pharmacist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist renowned for distilling kerosene from crude oil and inventing the modern kerosene lamp in 1853, which enabled reliable artificial lighting and spurred the development of the petroleum industry.

1839 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (automatic dishwasher).

1859 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children’s literature The Wind in the Willows (1908).

MISCELLANEOUS:

THIS IS PRETTY ASTONISHING. Israel Fully Operational 100 Kilowatt Iron Beam Lasers

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