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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.” — Hugo Eckener BIRTHDAYS: 787 Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi), Persian astrologer 1556 Philipp Nicolai, poet and composer 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer 1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer 1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer 1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, composer (and inventor of the tangent piano). Vater unser…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler) 1631 John Dryden, English poet, satirist, and playwright (first English Poet Laureate) 1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer. Halt was…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British portrait and court painter 1857 Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer. Concertino, Op.107 1861 William Bateson,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Practice two things in your dealings with disease: either help or do not harm the patient.” — Hippocrates BIRTHDAYS: 1783 John Heathcoat, English inventor of lace-making machinery. 1818 Henry Litolff, French composer and pianist). Scherzo. 1903 Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist. 1933 Jerry Pournelle, Author (American polymath and science-fiction author)…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.” — Alexander Fleming BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer (also singer and theorbo player).…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist. Ave Maris Stella 1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist. Sonata sopra ‘La Monica’ 1623 Antonio Cesti, Italian composer, singer, and musician. Intorno all’idol mio 1694 Leonardo…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Think of your life as a system. Think of yourself as the most important system. Be useful and make yourself more valuable as you go.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1502 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist/painter (also architect and designer) 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté (Conte), French painter and inventor (modern…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.” — Elisha Gray BIRTHDAYS: 1627 Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter. 1835 Elisha Grey (or Gray), American electrical engineer and inventor. 1919 John Pinkerton, English computer scientist. MISCELLANEOUS: THE 21ST CENTURY IS TURNING OUT TO BE STRANGER THAN I IMAGINED. Are Drone…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.” — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. sonata prima, and chaconne from lesson nr.6…