Tag: artists
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August 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (known for Fermat’s Last Theorem) 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher. Morte Amara 1870 Frederick F. Russell, American army…
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August 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” — Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1495 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter and architect. 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer. Chaconne from lesson nr.6 1686 Benedetto Marcello,…
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August 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.” — Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish painter (and cartoonist). 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher. 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Canzona, and Salve Regina in Fa maggiore 1771 Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (The…
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August 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance…
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August 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock BIRTHDAYS: 1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, translator, and printer who introduced the movable-type printing press to England in 1476, establishing the nation’s first printing operation at Westminster and producing over 100 books during his…
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August 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” — Christian Morgenstern BIRTHDAYS: 1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer. Sonata Terza from La Cetra, Op. 10 1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer. Sonata XII in C Major 1696 Maurice Greene, English composer. Allemande…
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August 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”…
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August 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.” — Hugo Eckener BIRTHDAYS: 787 Albumasar (Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi), Persian astrologer 1556 Philipp Nicolai, poet and composer 1560 Hieronymus Praetorius, composer 1567 Girolamo Giacobbi, composer 1589 Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer 1699 Christoph Gottlieb Schröter, composer (and inventor of the tangent piano). Vater unser…
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August 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Izaak Walton, English biographer and author (The Compleat Angler) 1631 John Dryden, English poet, satirist, and playwright (first English Poet Laureate) 1648 Johann Michael Bach, German composer. Halt was…
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August 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” — Charles Darwin BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Godfrey Kneller, German-British portrait and court painter 1857 Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer. Concertino, Op.107 1861 William Bateson,…
