Tag: history
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February 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas A. Edison BIRTHDAYS: 1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English scientist, inventor, and photography pioneer who invented the salted paper and calotype processes, precursors to photographic processes of the later 19th and 20th centuries. 1802 Lydia Maria Child,…
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January 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) 1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. 1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor 1872 Alexander Scriabin,…
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January 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni,…
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January 3, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and…
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January 1, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, talian statesman, the de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, and the most powerful patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. 1628 Christoph Bernhard, German Baroque composer…
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December 27, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.” — Johannes Kepler BIRTHDAYS: 1571 Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. 1572 Jan Campanus, Czech composer and humanist, born in Vodňany, Kingdom of Bohemia.…
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December 25, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” — Isaac Newton BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Orlando Gibbons, English composer. Pavana, and L’Achéron, and This is the record of John, and The Silver Swan 1601 Jose Ximenez, Spanish composer. Batalla de sexto tono 1628 Noel Coypel, French painter.…
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December 24, 2024
“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1564 Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch painter, cartoonist, printmaker, and engraver. 1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian composer, born in Trani, Kingdom of Naples. Concerto in la minore per flauto, 2vl, vla, e b.c 1818 James Prescott Joule, English physicist.…
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December 23, 2024
“Not every problem needs to be overcome, just the ones stopping you from getting where you want to be.” — Ann Hill BIRTHDAYS: 1644 Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco, Spanish organist, composer (La púrpura de la rosa), and maestro de capilla (Catedral de Lima, Peru, 1676-1707). A este sol peregrino 1689 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier,…
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December 22, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Relativity applies to physics, not to ethics” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1400 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor. 1702 Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter, art connoisseur, and dealer 1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer, born in Köthen, Anhalt-Köthen, Holy Roman Empire. Quartet G dur allegro moderato. 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer known primarily…
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