THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

— Carl Menger

BIRTHDAYS:

1819 Walt Whitman, American poet (Leaves of Grass).

1535 Alessandro Allori, Italian painter and carpet designer.

1656 Marin Marais, French composer. Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont de Paris, and Les folies d’Espagne

1862 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian and Soviet symbolist painter.

1802 Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (chiefly ballet music). La Vivandiere

1804 Louise Farrenc, French pianist and composer (only female professor at Paris Conservatory in the 19th century). Etude in F Sharp Minor, op. 26 no. 10

1817 Édouard Deldevez, French violinist and composer. Paquita

1852 Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (credited with inventing the Petri dish).

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