Tag: fiction
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December 18, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “By refocusing our space program on Mars for America’s future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it’s time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and…
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December 17, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” — George Orwell BIRTHDAYS: 1706 Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (Institutions de Physique; translation of Newton’s Principia). 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto), born in Aversa, Kingdom of…
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January 2, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “People think of education as something they can finish.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia. Pastores, and Pastorella in C für Orgel. 1777 Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (Frederick II of Prussia equestrian statue), born in Arolsen,…
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