Tag: history
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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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December 21, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.” — Frank Zappa BIRTHDAYS: 1401 Masaccio, Italian painter. 1616 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist and composer. Exultate Gaudete, and Sonata XVIII a 5 Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, and Sonata VII and 3 in D 1628 Samuel Friedrich…
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December 20, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1594 Giovanni Battista de Gagliano, Italian composer, born in Florence,…
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December 18, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.” — Arthur C. Clarke BIRTHDAYS: 1569 Jakob Hassler, German composer,…
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December 16, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Put up in a placewhere it is easy to seethe cryptic admonishmentT.T.T When you feel how depressinglyslowly you climbit’s well to remember thatThings Take Time.” — Piet Hein BIRTHDAYS: 1669 Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter 1770 Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven is widely regarded as the most important musical figure in the…
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