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March 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it when free from the coercion of parents and masters.” ― Herbert Spencer BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter. 1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, Italian opera composer 1728 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian…
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March 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,Because I was not…
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March 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A society that begins by banning words will end by banning books, and ideas themselves.” ― Gabriel Nadales BIRTHDAYS: 43 BC Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Roman poet (Metamorphoses) 1741 Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor 1750 Martinus van Marum, Dutch physician and inventor (Homo Diluvii Testus, constructed largest electrostatic machine in the…
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March 19, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.” ― Robert Boyers BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer. Tre Versetti in Fa, and Sonata per l’elevazione 1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish court painter. 1821 Richard Francis Burton, British explorer, writer, orientalist scholar,…
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March 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.” ― Alan Dershowitz BIRTHDAYS: 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet. 1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher. 1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian Baroque composer, organist, and maestro di cappella. Cantate Domino 1844 Nikolai…
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March 17, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People who can’t imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.” ― Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter. 1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer. “Sur une Mer” from cantata “Le Sommeil d’Ulysse”, and Sonata in g minor, and Prelude en…
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March 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” ― James Madison BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Nicolas Siret, French baroque composer and organist. Pièces de Clavecin, Livre I, Passacaille 1751 James Madison, American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States. 1789 Georg Simon…
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March 15, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty.” ― Gustave de Molinari BIRTHDAYS: 1733 Johan Zoffany, German painter 1754 Silvestro Palma, Italian composer. Ave Maria 1813 John Snow, English physician best known as the father of modern epidemiology. MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington…
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March 14, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ― Stanley Milgram BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar) 1726 Joseph Anton Steffan [Josef Antonín Štěpán], Bohemian harpsichordist and composer. Piano Concerto in E-fat major (24:11) 1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German…
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March 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.” ―…
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