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November 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. 1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics) 1862 Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer, Op:13, No.4 – Narcissus; Pianistic. 1926 Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy…
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November 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher. 1617 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (paintings of religious subjects 1770 Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying Lion) MISCELLANEOUS: SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT…
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November 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.” — Albert Schweitzer BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the…
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November 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1503 Il Bronzino, Italian Florentine painter in Mannerist style (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son) 1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French Baroque painter and cartoonist. 1752 Nicolas Appert, French inventor of airtight food preservation (food…
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November 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1715 Girolamo Abos, Maltese composer. Pelopide. 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert, French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. 1720 Charles-Antoine Campion, Italian composer. Sonata a tre Op 2 n1 1922 Gene Amdahl,…
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November 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?” — Theodore “Ted” Olson BIRTHDAYS:…
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November 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.” — Booker T. Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer (Georg Frideric Handel’s master), baptized in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. dich loben alle wir (LV…
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November 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense…
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November 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.” — Richard Mitchell BIRTHDAYS: 1676 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, Italian composer. La Foza della Virtu – Aria Vuol Amor. 1815…
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November 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?” — Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1493 Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. 1688 Lorenzo Somis, Italian composer and violinist. Sonata in sol maggiore, and Sinfonia n° 1 in Do maggiore 1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist,…
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