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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ― Arthur Koestler BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter. 1632 John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The rule of law does not mean the rule by law.” ― Neil Gorsuch BIRTHDAYS: 865 Rhazes [Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī], Persian physician, philosopher, and writer. 1476 Kanō Motonobu, Japanese painter and calligrapher (Kanō school of painting) 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German polymath and writer, who is widely…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It could be that the climate alarmists have answers to rebut these critics and their data, but if so, they are not showing it. Rather than engaging in scientific debate, they have evaded it, choosing instead to try to stop dissenting publications and cut off the funding of their opponents. That…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Richard Buckminster Fuller BIRTHDAYS: 1687 Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer. Sonata in d-minor Op. 8 No. 3 for cello & bassoon, and trio sonata opus 7,1 1726…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1836 Bret Harte, American author (Outcasts of Poker Flat) 1877 Joshua L. Cowen, American inventor (electric train). 1913 Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo) 1918 Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Censorship is the child of fear the father of ignorance and the desperate weapon of fascists everywhere.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson BIRTHDAYS: 1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1561 Bartholomeus Pitiscus, 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word trigonometry. 1579 John Amner, English…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “In today’s hyperlinked world, solving problems anywhere, solves problems everywhere.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1727 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German flautist and composer. Andante 1769 Georges Cuvier, French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the “founding father of paleontology”. 1846 Alexander Milne Calder, Scottish-American sculptor. 1849 William Ernest Henley, English…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” ― Dorothy Parker BIRTHDAYS: 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Science should be about the pursuit of truth, and not about the defense of one’s preferred political ideology or personal beliefs.” ― Gad Saad BIRTHDAYS: 1689 José Pradas Gallén, Spanish composer. Concierto, and “Qué tiernamente se queja” 1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter. 1754 William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (oscillating cylinder steam engine)…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A jolly young fellow from YumaTold an elephant joke to a puma;now his skeleton liesbeneath hot western skies-the puma had no sense of huma” ― Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”. Prólogo de L’Euridice 1779 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian…