THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.”

— Hilaire Belloc

BIRTHDAYS:

1648 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver.

1752 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (Andromeda), born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. Sinfonia a grand’orchestra in do min.

1758 John Hoppner, English portrait painter.

1821 Linus Yale Jr., American businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and metalsmith.

1846 Raoul Pictet, Swiss physicist. Pictet is co-credited with French scientist Louis-Paul Cailletet as the first to produce liquid oxygen in 1877.

1908 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (Cheaper by the Dozen).

MISCELLANEOUS:

RENAISSANCE. Thirty previously unpublished verses by Empedocles discovered on a papyrus from Cairo