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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Sarabande à deux, and Rigaudon, and Marche du triomphe from Tancrède 1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer. Cantate “La mort de Didon”, and La Bergère 1858 Chester Greenwood, American inventor best known for creating the earmuff.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never memorize something that you can look up.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1596 Nicolo Amati, Italian luthier renowned for his mastery in crafting violins, violas, and cellos during the 17th century in Cremona, establishing the Amati family as a cornerstone of the Cremonese school of violin making. 1729 Antonio Soler, Spanish…

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: 1578 Agostino Agazzari, Italian organist, composer of madrigals and sacred music, maestro di…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can’t eat steak.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien], Flemish painter (court painter to Emperor Leopold I) 1709 Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian composer, singer and conductor, born in Holleschau, Moravia.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Andrés de Sola, Spanish organist and composer. Tiento de medio registro de tiple, and „Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de 1.tono”, and Tiento de IV Tono 1645 Andreas Werkmeister, German organist, musical theorist,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” — C. S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L’elisir d’amore; Lucia di Lammermoor), born in Bergamo, Cisalpine Republic. “una furtiva Lagrima”…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” — Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born composer, conductor, and dancer who rose to prominence as the leading musical figure at the court of Louis XIV, pioneering the French style of opera known as tragédie lyrique and establishing foundational elements of French Baroque music.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” — Bruce Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1544 Ascanio Trombetti [Cavallari], Italian cornetist, composer, and maestro di cappella (San Giovanni de Monti, 1583-1591), baptized in Bologna, Papal States. Timete…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “So much of science proceeds by telling stories.” — Stephen J. Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1640 Carl Rosier, Dutch baroque composer, born in Prince-Bishopric of Liège, Holy Roman Empire. Sonata I in C 1795 Carl Philipp Fohr, German painter and cartoonist 1876 Willis Carrier, American mechanical engineer and inventor best known for developing…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.” — Lewis Thomas BIRTHDAYS: 1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics). 1835 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American industrialist and…