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November 22, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tolerating the distortion of history is the first step toward tolerating humiliation in real life.” ― Ai Weiwei BIRTHDAYS: 1458 Jacob Obrecht, Flemish-Dutch composer of motets and masses. Tandernaken, and Rompeltier 1690 François Colin de Blamont, French composer. Te Deum 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer, organist and harpsichordist. Sinfonia in…
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November 21, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it is human connection.” ― Johann Hari BIRTHDAYS: 1694 Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. 1852 Francisco Tárrega, Spanish composer. “Lágrima” 1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, Cornish novelist and editor (The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900) 1871 Panayot Pipkov, Bulgarian bandmaster, composer,…
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November 20, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word,preserves contact – it is silence which isolates.” ― Thomas Mann BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Artus Quellinus II, Flemish sculptor 1652 Romanus Weichlein, Austrian composer. Sonata III en la menor 1838 William Painter, American inventor 1839 Christian Wilberg, German painter 1889 Edwin Hubble, American…
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November 19, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” ― Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher. 1617 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter1846 Emile Wauters, Belgian painter 1709 Pierre Leclair, French composer and violinist. Violin Concertto in D Minor, Op. 7, no. 1 (14:07)…
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November 18, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The institution of taxation is not a civilized but a barbaric method to fund anything … it amounts to … a gross violation of human liberty.” ― Tibor R. Machan BIRTHDAYS: 1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor 1584 Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter 1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, Flemish composer. Trio sonata…
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November 17, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It could be that the climate alarmists have answers to rebut these critics and their data, but if so, they are not showing it. Rather than engaging in scientific debate, they have evaded it, choosing instead to try to stop dissenting publications and cut off the funding of their opponents. That…
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November 16, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress BIRTHDAYS: 1715 Girolamo Abos, Maltese composer. Pelopide 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert, French…
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November 15, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1604 Davis Mell, British violinist, composer, and clockmaker. “John Come Kiss Me Now” 1696 Gerhardus Havingha, Dutch organist and composer. Ouverture for Harpsichord 1705 Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French…
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November 14, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Somehow, people always forget that it’s much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.” ― Garry Kasparov BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer. Praeludium et Fugue in G LV58 1765 Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially…
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November 13, 2023
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali BIRTHDAYS: 1699 Jan Zach, Czech violinist, organist, and composer. Preludio in do minore 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. 1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author MISCELLANY: NOT SCIENCE FICTION. Breakthrough Thermoacoustic Stirling Generator Converts to Energy With…
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