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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Honor is decency without vanity.” ― Arthur Koestler BIRTHDAYS: 1662 Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter 1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (Complete Nonsense Book) 1820 Florence Nightingale, English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. 1828 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite figure poet and painter…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” ― Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer. Sonata quasi una fantasia b-moll op.20 (12:37) 1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter 1824 Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor 1827 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.” ― Ariel Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné (the elder), French violinist and Baroque composer, Trio Sonata in D Minor, Op. 4, No. 1 1727 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and statesman. 1754 Asmus Jakob Carstens, Danish-German Neoclassical…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ― Marie Curie BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia) 1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville). Il barbiere…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night BIRTHDAYS: 1673 Johann Valentin Eckelt, German composer. Ciaconne 1737 Edward Gibbon, English essayist, historian, and politician. 1846 Oscar…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” ― Primo Levi BIRTHDAYS: 1704 Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor, opera composer. Trio Sonata A Major GraunWV B:XV:62, Adagio, Allegro 1711…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do” ― Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter 1606 Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter 1856 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. 1858 Georges Hüe, French composer. Fantasia. 1870 Amadeo…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer. Arianna infelice (extrait), and La Bella Ragione 1842 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, Austrian composer. Trio in D-dur 1903 James Beard,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” ― André Gide BIRTHDAYS: 1655 Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker – considered the inventor of the piano. 1870 Alexandre Benois, Russian artist. 1940 Robin Cook, American physician and novelist. 1744 Marianne Martinez, Austrian composer. Sinfonia in C-Dur. and Piano…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” ― Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1649 Johann Valentin Meder, German composer. Ciaconne 1729 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer. Stonatrilla, and Ouvertüre aus L’Amore Artigiano MISCELLANY: TO BE FAIR, IT WAS THE LARGEST UNCONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL IN HISTORY…