THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species.”

— Edward O. Wilson

BIRTHDAYS:

1810 Eugène Simonis, Belgian sculptor.

1811 William Robert Grove, Welsh physicist and inventor (first fuel cell).

1834 James McNeill Whistler, American-British painter

1836 Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian opera composer. Overture to Il Guarany

1837 Paul Lacombe, French composer. Dialogue sentimental, and 2 Pièces, Op.74

1899 E. B. White, American writer (Charlotte’s Web).

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