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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Johann Christoph Graupner, German harpsichordist and Baroque composer. Ouverture C dur GWV 405 (14:16) 1690 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, German composer and librettist. Bist du bei mir from the Anna Magdalena Bach Book 1904 Richard Addinsell, English composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.” ― Buddha BIRTHDAYS: 1591 Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish painter and printmaker. 1597 François Duquesnoy, French sculptor 1628 Charles Perrault, French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale… 1711 Gaetano…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” ― George Washington Carver BIRTHDAYS: 1746 Frantisek Adam Mica, Bohemian composer. Symphony in D 1853 Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter. MISCELLANY: CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? You Up?…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The world’s most precious resource is the persistent and passionate human mind.” ― Peter H. Diamandis BIRTHDAYS: 1683 Gasparo Visconti, Italian composer and violinist. Sonata in sol minore op. I n. 3, and Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1 No. 5 (live) | III. Grave 1738 Ethan Allen, American farmer, businessman, land…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.” ― Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe. 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor 1674 Reinhard Keiser, German opera composer and conductor. Markuspassion 8.MPG, and “Die römische Unruhe,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” ― George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1668 Jean Gilles, French composer. Requiem, and Messe des morts 1804 George Childress, lawyer, politician, and a principal author of the Texas Declaration of Independence. 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace, English…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” ― Gandhi BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Josef Antonin Sehling, Bohemian violinist and composer. Pastorela Eja surgite pastores 1834 Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor. 1899 Francis Poulenc, French pianist and composer. “Les Chemins de l’amour”, and Priez pour paix,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” ― Khalil Gibran BIRTHDAYS: 1695 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer. Recorder concerto in F major 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.” ― Jean-Baptiste Say BIRTHDAYS: 1560 William Cobbold, British organist and composer. New Fashions 1596 Henry Lawes, English composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I do not like to see ignorant or despotic officials interfering needlessly with private lives; I do not like to see creative thought crushed by the tyranny of stupid majorities. I do not like persecution, whether by majorities or of minorities. I am suspicious of government and distrustful of politicians; but…