Tag: lifestyle
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September 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We are made of starstuff.” — Carl Sagan BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Isabella Leonarda, composer. Sonata 10 1633 Sebastian Knüpfer, composer. Die Turteltaube lässt sich hören, and Domine ne in furore, and Erforsche mich Gott 1644 Juan Bautista José Cabanilles, composer. Gallardas, and Pasacalles, and Batalla Imperial 1648 Johann Schelle, composer. Barmherzig und…
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September 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” — Leo Tolstoy BIRTHDAYS: 1667 Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, mathematician. 1735 Johann Christian Bach, composer. Sinfonia in D major, Op. 18-1 1774 Caspar David Friedrich, painter 1817 Aleksei K. Tolstoi, Russian poet,…
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September 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Whatever you do, don’t doubt yourself because of others. That’s the only thing I want to impress upon you, as strongly as I can.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1596 Constantijn Huygens, poet (and composer). Allemande for Lyra Viol 1622 Jacob Hintze, composer. Christ lag in Todesbanden 1681 Carl Heinrich Biber, composer.…
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September 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Gaslighting is mind control to make victims doubt their reality.” — Tracy Malone BIRTHDAYS: 1568 Adriano Banchieri, composer and poet. La Barca di Venezia per Padova (46:26) 1695 Pietro Locatelli, composer. Concerto grosso c minor, op.1 no. 11 MISCELLANEOUS: VERY INTERESTING. Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: ‘We are…
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September 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” — Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Georg Böhm, composer. Prelude & Fugue in C Major, and Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude in G Minor 1839 Henry George, economist. 1918 Allen Drury, author. MISCELLANEOUS: 200,000…
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September 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1529 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter 1854 Engelbert Humperdinck, German opera composer. Hänsel und Gretel (Act 2, Scene 2 Highlights), and Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel 1875…
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August 31, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” — Warren Buffett BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Guillaume Amontons, physicist (and instrument inventor) 1741 Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, composer. Plaisir d’amour 1748 Jean-Étienne Despréaux, composer. Quadrille des Saisons et des Mois 1821 Hermann von Helmholtz, physicist, scientist. 1834 Amilcare Ponchielli,…
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August 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Artus Quellinus, sculptor 1693 Jacobus Nozeman, composer. Sonate nr. 3 Sarabanda, Allegro Assaivrije geluiden 1748 Jacques-Louis David, painter 1797 Mary…
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August 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Charter 77 is not an organisation; it has no rules. permanent bodies or formal membership. It embraces everyone who agrees with its ideas, participates in its work, and supports it. It does not form the basis for any oppositional political activity. Like manv similar citizen initiatives in various countries, West and…
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August 28, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.” — Muhammad Ali BIRTHDAYS: 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, poet, and author (Faust) 1919 Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor…
