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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Somehow, people always forget that it’s much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.” ― Garry Kasparov BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, German musician and composer. Praeludium et Fugue in G LV58 1765 Robert Fulton, American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the world’s first commercially…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali BIRTHDAYS: 1699 Jan Zach, Czech violinist, organist, and composer. Preludio in do minore 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. 1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author MISCELLANY: NOT SCIENCE FICTION. Breakthrough Thermoacoustic Stirling Generator Converts to Energy With…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter Drucker BIRTHDAYS: 1493 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor 1833 Alexander Borodin, Russian chemist and composer. Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances 1840 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor 1962 Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist MISCELLANY: I DID A DOUBLE TAKE WHEN I…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” ― Paulo Coelho BIRTHDAYS: 1483 Martin Luther, Monopoly Breaker 1668 François Couperin, French composer and organist. Musette from Concerts Royaux, 3ème Livre, and Concerts Royaux—Septième Concert MISCELLANY: IT’S NOT…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” ― Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1664 Johann Speth, German composer and organist. Partite diverse sopra l’aria detta la Todesca, and Toccata prima 1914  Hedy Lamarr, Austro-Hungarian-born American actress and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1592 Domenico Mazzocchi, Italian Baroque composer. Piangete, occhi piangete, and Lagrime amare, and Passacaglie dialogo à tre (extrait) 1656 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist. 1847 Bram Stoker, Irish author who…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The more uncivilised the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilised man is always skeptical and tolerant. His culture is based on ‘I am not too sure’.” ― H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden, early German composer.…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.” ― Will & Ariel Durant BIRTHDAYS: 1666 Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer. Viola d’amore Sonata no.18 in d minor 1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch nautical scientist, chemist, mathematician, and poet. 1885 Will Durant, American historian and philosopher MISCELLANY: FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND…