THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It’s all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. That’s fine. But give some sensible reason why they were there. If you must shower the room with bus tickets, provide a reason for that too. In other words, construct your story. Your present problem is not to explain the villainy of the guilty: it’s to explain the stupidity of the innocent.”

― John Dickson Carr

BIRTHDAYS:

1500 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, goldsmith, and author

1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor

1862 Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac). Ouverture Cyrano de Bergerac, and Sinfonietta – IV. Allegro marciale

1880 Alfred Wegener, German geophysicist and meteorologist (continental drift theory)

MISCELLANEOUS:

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