Tag: inventions
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April 22, 2025
”Everybody wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.” — P.J. O’Rourke BIRTHDAYS: 1658 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (Concerti Grossi), born in Verona, Republic of Venice. Trumpet Concerto in D Major, complete (Roger 188) 1682 Willem Ignatius Kerricx, Flemish architect, sculptor and painter MISCELLANEOUS: THE COVID 19 INJECTIONS AND…
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April 21, 2025
”The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which she…
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April 20, 2025
”Liberty becomes a question of morals more than of politics.” — Lord Acton BIRTHDAYS: 1748 Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, and educator. Chorale Prelude on Straf’ mich nicht in deinem Zorn. 1850 Daniel Chester French, American sculptor 1860 Charles Gordon Curtis, American inventor (Curtis-steam turbine). 1904 George Stibitz, American mathematician and scientist (father of the modern digital computer). MISCELLANEOUS: I’LL SLEEP…
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April 19, 2025
”Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export…. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains…
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April 18, 2025
”Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian organist, choral director, composer (Jephta), and priest, baptized in Marino, Papal States. Plorate Filii Israel, and Così volete, così sarà 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), born in Spalato,…
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April 17, 2025
”The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan BIRTHDAYS: 1587 Ivan Lukačić, Croatian composer. Panis angelicus 1683 Johann David Heinichen, German Baroque composer and music theorist, born in Krössuln, Electorate of Saxony. Violin concerto in D major Seibel 224 1837 J.…
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April 16, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Gentlemen, you are about to embark on a course of studies which will occupyyou for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like toremind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course ofyour studies will be of the slightest possible use to…
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April 15, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” — Leonardo da Vinci BIRTHDAYS: 1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become…
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April 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The world is my country, science is my religion.” — Christiaan Huygens BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of sacred polyphonic music. Adoratio Crucis 1718 Emanuele Barbella, Neapolitan composer,…
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April 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1743 Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. 1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter…
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