Tag: history
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December 12, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Lodovico Giustini, Italian composer, born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonata number 6 1799 Karl Briullov, a leading Russian painter of the Romantic movement, celebrated for his dramatic history paintings, portraits, and contributions to monumental art…
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December 11, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn BIRTHDAYS: 1725 George Mason, American Founding Father, Virginia planter, and statesman best known for authoring the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, a foundational document that articulated principles of individual liberty and government by consent, directly…
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December 10, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I dwell in possibility…” — Emily Dickinson BIRTHDAYS: 1815 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and writer, the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Milbanke, a woman with mathematical training. 1822 César Franck, Belgian-born composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who became a central figure in…
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December 9, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Make yourself useful: go out and help someone.” — Kat Timpf BIRTHDAYS: 1608 John Milton, English poet, polemicist, scholar, and civil servant under the republican Commonwealth of England, whose epic Paradise Lost (1667) recasts the biblical Fall of Man as a profound exploration of human disobedience and divine justice, cementing his…
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December 8, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Reading brings us unknown friends.” — Honore de Balzac BIRTHDAYS: 65 BC Horace, Roman poet renowned for his lyric odes, satires, and epistles that blended Greek literary traditions with Roman sensibilities during the Augustan Age. 1731 František Xaver Dušek, Czech pianist, harpsichordist, and composer, born in Chotěborky, Vilantice, Kingdom of Boehmia.…
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December 7, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1598 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor, architect, painter and city planner. 1637 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer, born in Massa e Cozzile, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Toccata con lo scherzo del cucco 1648…
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December 6, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer, born in Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. “So ben mi ch’ha bon tempo”, and Amfiparnaso – Prologo. 1642 Johann Christoph Bach, German harpsichordist and composer. Keyboard…
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December 5, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he…
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December 4, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Andre Campra, French composer. Sarabande à deux, and Rigaudon, and Marche du triomphe from Tancrède 1667 Michel Pignolet de Monteclair, French composer. Cantate “La mort de Didon”, and La Bergère 1858 Chester Greenwood, American inventor best known for creating the earmuff.…
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December 3, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never memorize something that you can look up.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1596 Nicolo Amati, Italian luthier renowned for his mastery in crafting violins, violas, and cellos during the 17th century in Cremona, establishing the Amati family as a cornerstone of the Cremonese school of violin making. 1729 Antonio Soler, Spanish…
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