THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”

― John Keats

BIRTHDAYS:

1291 Philippe de Vitry, French composer and poet. Firmissime fidem, and “Heu, Fortuna subdola / Aman novi probatur / Heu me”

1632 Johannes (Jan) Vermeer, Dutch painter (Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer)

1760 Hokusai, Japanese ukiyo-e painter and printmaker (The Great Wave off Kanagawa; date often given as October 31)

1795 John Keats, English Romantic poet (Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn)

1828 Joseph Wilson Swan, English physicist, chemist, and inventor (early incandescent electric lamp)

1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and electrical engineer (induction motor)

1920 Dick Francis, British novelist (detective/thriller writer) and jockey

1927 Narinder Singh Kapany, Indian-American physicist and inventor (“father of fiber optics”)

MISCELLANEOUS:

PETR BECKMANN PLEASE CALL YOUR OFFICE. Microreactor Gets DOE Approval for Full Power Testing, Previously Contracts with Army, DIU, Navy and Air Force