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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a distinction lacks a name, it tends to disappear into the background of experience. Language focuses attention. Naming a concept does not invent it — it allows us to notice, discuss, and refine it deliberately.” — Al Shalloway BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Giovanni Battista Vitali, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.” — Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1653 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer and violinist (Concerti Grossi), born in Fusignano, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Concerto grosso op. 6 Nr. 8 «Weihnachtskonzert» 1796 Giovanni Pacini, Italian opera composer (Saffo),…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Copernicus not only moved the Earth but also set in motion the minds of men.” — Giordano Bruno BIRTHDAYS: 1813 Semen Hulak-Artemovsky, Ukrainian baritone, playwright, and opera composer (Zaporozhets za Dunayem), born in Gorodishche, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire. Oksana’s aria from Cossack beyond the Danube, and Oksana’s Aria, and Oksanas Romanze…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” — Galileo BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath widely regarded as the father of modern observational astronomy, modern physics, and the scientific method. 1809 Cyrus McCormick, American inventor…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa. 1602 Pier…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Coordonné, and Now hath Flora,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Coordonné, and Now hath Flora,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Coordonné, and Now hath Flora,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas A. Edison BIRTHDAYS: 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. 1802 Lydia Maria…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.” — Frederich Schiller BIRTHDAYS: 1696 Johann Melchior Molter, German composer, born in Tiefenort, Thuringia, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar. Clarinet Concerto. 1775 Charles Lamb, British critic/poet/essayist. 1795 Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French Romantic painter, etcher and sculptor. 1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary…