Tag: fiction
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April 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All really great things are happening in slow and inconspicuous ways.” — Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1658, Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (Concerti Grossi). Trumpet Concerto in D Major, complete. 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor, and painter. MISCELLANEOUS: COULD THEY HAVE PICKED ANYTHING HARDER TO DO? Japan’s audacious sample-return mission to…
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April 23, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet BIRTHDAYS: 1564 William Shakespeare, English playwright, poet, and author (widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. 1623 Jan Adam Reincken, Dutch-German composer and organist. Hortus Musicus No. 4 in D minor, and…
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April 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius BIRTHDAYS: 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter, born in Bologna, Papal States. 1672 Johann Philipp Käfer, German composer, born in Schney, Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, Holy Roman Empire. Musicalische Battaille C Dur, 1 Satz 1806 Peter…
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April 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a ‘child of Muslim…
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April 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is no moral argument that justifies using the coercive powers of government to force one person to bear the expense of taking care of another.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Orazio Benevoli, Franco-Italian composer, born in Rome, Papal States. Et Incarnatus Est from Missa Dum Complerentur (Credo) 1660 Sebastián…
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April 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The most serious problem of the welfare state is not its cost, but its effect on the character of the people. It tends to destroy the sense of individual responsibility and the willingness of individuals to help one another.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer…
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April 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” — Clarence Thomas BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Quam pulchra es 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist. Concerto in F, SeiH. 233 MISCELLANEOUS: A CLOSE CALL (TOO CLOSE). On this day in space: April 17, 1970:…
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April 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.” — Wilbur Wright BIRTHDAYS: 1635 Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter. 1673 Francesco Feroci, Italian composer. Pro Elevazione, and Fuga in Do maggiore 1755 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter. 1821 Ford Madox…
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April 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” — Arnold Toynbee BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High…
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April 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” — Thomas Jefferson BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, prominent Dutch natural philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and inventor whose groundbreaking work advanced the fields of optics, mechanics,…
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