THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”

― Will Durant

BIRTHDAYS:

1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian baroque composer. Sonata (Lezione) II for Viola d’Amore and Basso continuo, and ‘March of the Dead’, and Sonata in a moll

1667 Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter.

1855 Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist and scientist (discovered the stratosphere).

1885 Will Durant, American historian, philosopher, and author (The Story of Civilization; The Story of Philosophy).

MISCELLANEOUS:

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