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July 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” ― Neil Armstrong BIRTHDAYS: 356 BC Alexander III of Macedon, a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. 1600 Simon Ives, English organist, lyra-violist, and court composer (King Charles I). Duo for two viols, and Now we are…
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July 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ― Winston Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1789 John Martin, English painter and engraver. 1797 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, German composer. Präludium und Fuge, G Dur 1814 Samuel Colt, American inventor, industrialist, and businessman…
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July 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” ― Kahlil Gibran BIRTHDAYS: 1635 Robert Hooke, English polymath who was active as a physicist (“natural philosopher”), astronomer, geologist, meteorologist and architect. 1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian…
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July 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ― Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1702 Johann Schneider, German composer and pupil of Bach. Preludio in G dur, and…
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July 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who…
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July 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1606 Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. 1638 Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, Italian composer, born in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata Prima, and Sinfonia Cantabile 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst, British political…
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July 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” ― George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Poliziano, Italian poet and humanist in Florence, born in Montepulciano, Tuscany 1486 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter. 1671 Jacques D’Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician. 1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter, cartoonist…
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July 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.” ― Erno Rubik BIRTHDAYS: 100 BC Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman. 1787 Pellegrino Rossi, Italian economist and politician, born in Carrara, Duchy of Massa and Carrara. 1864 John Jacob Astor IV,…
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July 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” ― Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1675 Evaristo Felice dall’Abaco, Italian cellist and composer, born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Concerto a più istrumenti, Op. 5: No.…
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July 11, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B.…
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