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June 7, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The Romans’ contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity’s greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that flourished in the colonies of their Empire.” ― Petr Beckmann BIRTHDAYS: 1848 Paul Gauguin, French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with…
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June 6, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The first gas chambers were constructed in 1939, to implement a Hitler decree dated September 1 of that year, which said that “incurably sick persons should be granted a mercy death.” (It was probably this “medical” origin of gassing that inspired Dr. Servatius’s amazing conviction that killing by gas must be…
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June 5, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”What is your friend: the things you know, or the things you don’t know. First of all, there’s a lot more things you don’t know. And second, the things you don’t know is the birthplace of all your new knowledge! So if you make the things you don’t know your friend,…
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June 4, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ― Winston Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1700 Theodoor Verhaegen, Flemish sculptor 1907 Marjan Kozina, Slovene composer. Divertimento 1, and Bela krajina 1910 Christopher Cockerell, English inventor (Hovercraft) MISCELLANY: BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE.…
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June 3, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” ― Sun Tzu BIRTHDAYS: 1657 Manuel de Egues, Spanish composer. ¡Cupidillo, niño travieso! 1660 Johannes Schenck, Dutch born composer. Chaconne – Duo in RE, and Sonata II – Adagio 1726 James Hutton, Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. 1738 Johann…
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June 2, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and…
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June 1, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.” ― Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Georg Muffat, baroque composer. Passacaglia, and Concerto grosso XII “Propitia Sydera”, Grave – Ciacona, and Sonata II in G Minor, Grave & Allegro 1796 Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot,…
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May 31, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Like all cults, this new one adeptly represses heresy. . . . In defiance of the Western scientific tradition, which maintains that skepticism of inferences drawn from observation is always in order, and that all accepted conclusions are always subject to review and potential overthrow by new data, the climate catastrophists…
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May 30, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Belief gets in the way of learning.” ― Robert A. Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Valentin Dretzel, German composer. Capriccio in a 1623 Wallerant Vaillant, French painter and engraver. 1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter. 1900 James A. Parsons, American metallurgist and inventor (stainless steel). MISCELLANY: I WAS BEGINNING TO WONDER IF ANYONE WAS…
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May 29, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”How are we to live in an atomic age?” Lewis asks. “I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and…
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