Tag: inventions
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April 27, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.” — Mary Wollstonecraft BIRTHDAYS: 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft, English writer, philosopher, and advocate for women’s…
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April 26, 2026
Richard Mitchell THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is only one Education, and it has only one goal: the freedom of the mind. Anything that needs an adjective, be it civics education, or socialist education, or Christian education, or whatever-you-like education, is not education, and it has some different goal. The very existence of modified “educations”…
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April 25, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend.” — Albert Camus BIRTHDAYS: 1677: Guillaume Coustou Sr., French sculptor (Chevaux de Marly). 1723: Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer. 12 divertimenti, and Allegro from Sonata in F major…
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April 24, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “This is how we grow: by being defeated by greater and greater things.” — Rainer Maria Rilke BIRTHDAYS: 1620 John Graunt, English statistician and founder of demography. 1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian composer. Domine, Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina, and Beatus Vir & Lauda Jerusalem 1743 Edmund Cartwright, English inventor of the…
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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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