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February 15, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” — Alfred North Whitehead BIRTHDAYS: 1557 Alfonso Fontanelli, Italian composer (Ferrara school), born in Reggio nell’Emilia, Duchy of Modena and Reggio. Io parto e nel partire 1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist…
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February 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1404 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian Renaissance humanist author (Dinner Pieces), architect (Tempio Malatestiano; Palazzo Rucellai; Santa Maria Novella), sculptor and cryptographer considered a founder of Western cryptography, born in Genoa, Republic of Genoa. 1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian…
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February 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” — Marcus Tullius Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser, Hungarian German composer,…
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February 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If every one of those good words – liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights – has been called “bourgeois”, what on earth does that leave for us?” — Fang Lizhi BIRTHDAYS: 1567 Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician. Fain would I wed 1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United…
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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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December 13, 2024
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.” — Robert Heinlein BIRTHDAYS: 1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer, German composer. Sonata in Fa Maggiore 1797 Heinrich Heine, German poet and lyricist (Schubert, Liszt) 1836 Franz von Lenbach, German painter. 1838 Alexis de Castillon, French composer. Sonnet Mélancolique, and Piano Quintet in…
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