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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.”― Sophocles BIRTHDAYS: 1767 Wenzel Müller, composer. Aria Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Kyrie – Mass in G 1849 Ivan Pavlov, scientist (physiologist; Nobel Prize 1904) 1888 T. S. Eliot, poet and writer (Nobel Prize 1948)…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “She had blue skin,And so did he.He kept it hidAnd so did she.They searched for blueTheir whole life through,Then passed right by-And never knew.”― Shel Silverstein BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Francesco Borromini, sculptor and architect 1663 Johann Nikolaus Hanff, composer. Auf meinen lieben Gott 1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer. Les sauvages, “Forêts paisibles”, Les…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “This is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.”― Euripides BIRTHDAYS: 1796 Antoine-Louis Barye, sculptor MISCELLANEOUS: INTERESTING. Elon Plans SPACEX FIBER KILLER Satellite. Each More Powerful than the Space Station

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.”― Christopher Hitchens BIRTHDAYS: 480 BC Euripides, Athenian playwright and one of the three principal tragedians of classical Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles, whose works profoundly shaped Western drama. 1642 Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer. Sonata da chiesa 8va, and Godo ma come…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.”― Michael Faraday BIRTHDAYS: 1720 Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer. Husarerne på frierier 1733 Anton Filtz, composer. TrioSonata 3, and Trio in sol…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Redistribution is a euphemism for legalized grand larceny; you don’t create wealth by stealing it, any more than you multiply it by dividing it. Moreover, don’t the means of production include not only machines but people — that is, laborers? When human capital is publicly owned, it’s akin to slavery.”― Richard…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “From the stars has come the matter of our world and of our bodies, and it is to the stars that we will someday return.”― T. A. Heppenheimer BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Gottfried Scheidt, composer. Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit, and Wo Gott zum Haus nicht gibt sein Gunst 1653 Benedict…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”― Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1616 Jacques de Saint-Luc, composer. Chaconne in D major 1749 Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, mathematician and astronomer (scientist) 1806 William Dyce, painter 1922 Damon Knight, author 1932 Mike Royko, author MISCELLANEOUS: 21ST CENTURY QUESTIONS.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.”― Booker T. Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Francesca Caccini, composer. Antri gelati, and Chi desia, and Lasciatemi qui solo, and Ave Maria. 1636 Pietro Sanmartini, composer. Symphony for string orchestra in G major I,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The truth belongs to those who seek it, not to those who claim to own it.”― Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Francesco Sacrati, composer. La Finta Pazza 1743 Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician 1783 Samuel Prout, painter 1819 Léon Foucault — physicist 1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian and Soviet scientist,…