THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.”

— Hannah Arendt

BIRTHDAYS:

1495 Leonhard Paminger, Austrian composer, poet and theologian, born in Aschach an der Donau. Te Deum, and Omnis mundus jocundetur – Resonet in laudibus – In dulci jubilo

1653 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics for the study of sound from the ancient Greek word ακουστός, meaning “able to be heard”.

1699 Johann Adolph Hasse, German operatic tenor, and composer (Antonio e Cleopatra; Artaserse), baptized in Bergedorf, Holy Roman Empire. L’Armonica (28:57)

1881 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. Rhapsody No.1 for Violin & Piano

MISCELLANEOUS:

THAT’S ONLY SIX YEARS FROM NOW. NASA Plans $20 Billion Permanent Moonbase by 2032

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