Tag: history
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August 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “He only profits from praise who values criticism.” — Heinrich Heine BIRTHDAYS: 1397 Guillaume Dufay, Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer and theorist, born in Beersel, Burgundian Netherlands. Nuper Rosarum Flores 1607 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, German composer and court organist, born in Hagenau, Alsace. Holy Roman Empire. Sonata Sopra la Monica 1623 Antonio Cesti,…
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August 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish artist, architect and designer of tapestries and stained glass (court…
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August 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory.” — John Thomas Scopes BIRTHDAYS: 1645 August Kuhnel, German composer…
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August 2, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do.” — Elisha Gray BIRTHDAYS: 1775 José Ángel Lamas, Venezuelan chirimía player, bassoonist, and composer. ‘Popule Meus’ 1835 Elisha Grey, American electrical engineer and inventor (Telephone). 1919 John Pinkerton, pioneering British computer designer. Along with David Caminer, he designed England’s first business computer,…
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August 1, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.” — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck BIRTHDAYS: 10 BC Claudius, Roman emperor (first to be born outside Italy). 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer, born…
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July 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.” — Eliyahu Goldratt BIRTHDAYS: 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect. 1803 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer and inventor (designed the United States Navy’s first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton). 1848 Jean Robert Planquette, French composer. The French…
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July 30, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We need to shut down the government for two weeks to slow the spread of totalitarianism. Don’t worry, Senator, it’s only for two weeks.” — Cecil Charles BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and art historian (Vasari’s Lives), born in Arezzo, Republic of Florence. 1818 Emily Brontë, English writer best known…
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July 29, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” — W. Edwards Deming BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), born in Naumburg, Hesse-Homburg. Nun, ich singe! Gott ist knie, and Gott hilf mir / Psalm 69, 2-14, 17 1796 Walter Hunt, American mechanical engineer. 1805 Alexis de…
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July 28, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.” — Karl Popper BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic. 1824 Jacopo Foroni, Italian opera composer (I gladiatori; Advokathen Panthelin), and conductor, born in Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire. “Con…
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July 27, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Ludovico Sforza, Italian nobleman, and patron of artists and writers, who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499. 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer, born in Florence, Florentine Republic. Fammi pur guerr’ amor, and…
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