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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1797 Domenico Gaetano Donizetti, Italian opera composer (L’elisir d’amore; Lucia di Lammermoor). Prendi, per me sei libero (L’elisir d’amore), and L’Aurora, and Una furtiva lagrima. L’ elisir d’ amore. and La fille du régiment –…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” — Voltaire BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer. March for the Turkish Ceremony, and Idylle sur la paix, and Dance of the Sun King Le Roi Soleil King Louis XIV of France, and Entrée d’Apollon, and Suites from Les…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The laws of physics work as well for others as they do for us.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Pantaleon Hebenstreit, German musician, composer, and instrument inventor. Hebenstreit’s Bach 1701 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. 1731 Gaetano Pugnani, Italian violinist and composer. Sinfonia in B 1741 Jean-Pierre Duport, French…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. 1814 Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics) 1862 Ethelbert Nevin, American pianist and composer, Op:13, No.4 – Narcissus; Pianistic. 1926 Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher. 1617 Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (paintings of religious subjects 1770 Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (Dying Lion) MISCELLANEOUS: SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.” — Albert Schweitzer BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic of the…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1503 Il Bronzino, Italian Florentine painter in Mannerist style (Eleanor de Toledo & her Son) 1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French Baroque painter and cartoonist. 1752 Nicolas Appert, French inventor of airtight food preservation (food…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1715 Girolamo Abos, Maltese composer. Pelopide. 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert, French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. 1720 Charles-Antoine Campion, Italian composer. Sonata a tre Op 2 n1 1922 Gene Amdahl,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?” — Theodore “Ted” Olson BIRTHDAYS:…