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August 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1836 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat) 1877 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train). 1913 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo) 1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator,…
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August 24, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson BIRTHDAYS: 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. 1579 John Amner, English…
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August 23, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German flautist and composer. Andante 1769 Georges Cuvier, French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology”. 1846 Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor. 1849 William Ernest Henley, English…
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August 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” ― Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor,…
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August 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1689 José Pradas Gallén, Spanish composer. Concierto, and “Qué tiernamente se queja” 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter. 1754 William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (oscillating cylinder steam engine)…
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August 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A jolly young fellow from YumaTold an elephant joke to a puma;now his skeleton liesbeneath hot western skies-the puma had no sense of huma” ― Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”. Prólogo de L’Euridice 1779 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian…
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August 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.” ― Orville Wright BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician, inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements. 1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter. 1808 James…
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August 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.” ― Javier Milei BIRTHDAYS: 1750 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and teacher of the classical period. Sinfonia La Veneziana 1805 Josef Danhauser, Austrian painter. 1925 Brian Aldiss, British sci-fi author. MISCELLANY: IT WOULD BE GREAT IF THIS IS REAL. ABC7 Exclusive:…
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August 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Journalism is printing what someone else doesn’t want printed. Everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter. 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermat’s Last Theorem) 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples,…
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August 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.…
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