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March 30, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What is now proved was once only imagined.” — William Blake BIRTHDAYS: 1510 Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish blind organist and composer. Diferencias sobre el Canto Llano del Caballero 1680 Louis-Antoine Dornel, French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist. Sonate en Quatuor 1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich, German organist, composer, and Kapellmeister (Marienkirche (Danzig),…
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March 29, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The other day, I told my A.I. that I love shrimp tempura, and it said, “What’s that?” I said, “What’s shrimp tempura?” and it said, “No, what is love?” — Baratunde Thurston BIRTHDAYS: 1484 Johann Spangenberg, German theologist and composer, born in Hardegsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg, Holy roman Empire. Allein Gott…
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March 28, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man…
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March 27, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Those who tell the stories rule society.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, born in Jettingen-Scheppach, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. Prelude, and Toccata in g 1845 Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays. MISCELLANEOUS: I WAS…
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March 26, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” — Émile Zola BIRTHDAYS: 1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Papal States. Pace Una Volta 1859 A. E. Housman, English poet.…
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March 25, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — Buddha BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician, physicist and sound engineer who coined the name acoustics. 1699 Johann Adolph Hasse, German operatic…
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March 24, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?” — Dorothy L. Sayers BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German late Baroque composer, and multi-instrumentalist, born in Magdeburg, Margraviate of Brandenburg, Holy Roman Empire. Ouverture – Suite “La Lyra” TWV 55 Es3, and Sonata I…
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March 23, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Thomas Selle, German baroque composer, born in Zörbig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Dancket dem Herren 1749 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French polymath, a scholar whose work has been…
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March 22, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands. 1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, Italian opera composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. PRESTO (III…
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March 21, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Nothing is good for man except what makes him just and temperate, brave and free.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1624 François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer. Fugue 6e 1768 Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (mathematical theory of heat conduction) and Egyptologist. 1839 Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, one of the group known…
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