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May 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism BIRTHDAYS: 1471 Albrecht Dürer, German Renaissance painter and printmaker. 1633 Joseph de La Barre, French composer. Corant & Var. –…
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May 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” ― Andre Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish baroque artist. 1660 Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor 1799 Honoré de Balzac, French novelist 1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant.…
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May 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” ― Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1862 Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter. 1878 Adam Carse, English composer and instrument collector. Hopping dance. 1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its…
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May 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Live with your century, but do not be its creature.” ― Friedrich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1830 (Károly) “Karl” Goldmark, Hungarian-Viennese violinist and composer. Violin Concerto No. 1 MISCELLANY: RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANT ANOTHER LOCKDOWN: IN 2006. Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE,…
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May 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.” ― G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1732 Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian composer. Siciliana 1749 Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. 1866 Erik Satie, French composer. Je…
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May 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”There is one and only one social responsibility of business – to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.” ― Milton…
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May 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.” ― Alfred North Whitehead BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer and pioneer in development…
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May 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ― Aldous Huxley BIRTHDAYS: 1652 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German Baroque composer, statesman, and physician. ‘Selig sind die Toten’ 1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English leading portrait painter (Blue Boy). 1929 Barbara Branden, Canadian writer…
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May 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer. He is best known for 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The…
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May 12, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honor is decency without vanity.” ― Arthur Koestler BIRTHDAYS: 1662 Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter 1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (Complete Nonsense Book) 1820 Florence Nightingale, English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite figure poet and painter…
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