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January 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music composer, born in Lodi, Duchy of Milan. Stabat Mater. 1566 Angelo Notari, Italian composer,…
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January 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker. 1628 Charles Perrault, French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the…
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January 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1800 Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist who developed the dynamo principle. 1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter, founded National Gallery of Athens. 1870 Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor. 1872 George Washington Pierce, American physicist who pioneered electrical communication (crystal oscillator…
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January 10, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.” — C.S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Gasparo Visconti, Italian composer and violinist, born in Cremona, Duchy of Milan, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata in…
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January 9, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one’s property and therefore no one’s loss.” — George Reisman BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer (Sorgen-Lägerin), born in Wolgast, Pomerania. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor. 1674 Reinhard…
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January 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Johann Christoph Graupner, German harpsichordist and Baroque composer, born in Hartmannsdorf, Electorate of Saxony. From Cantata “Liebster Gott vergisst du mich!”-Est ist genug, and Triosonate in…
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January 8, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” — Stephen Hawking BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Jean Gilles, French composer. Messe des Morts. 1804 George Childress, lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator.…
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January 7, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you – and why?” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and…
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January 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) 1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. 1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor 1872 Alexander Scriabin,…
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January 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni,…
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