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March 23, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Thomas Selle, German baroque composer, born in Zörbig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire. Dancket dem Herren 1749 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French polymath, a scholar whose work has been…
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March 22, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands. 1700 Giuseppe Sellitto, Italian opera composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. PRESTO (III…
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March 21, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Nothing is good for man except what makes him just and temperate, brave and free.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1624 François Roberday, French Baroque organist and composer. Fugue 6e 1768 Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (mathematical theory of heat conduction) and Egyptologist. 1839 Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer, one of the group known…
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March 20, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot exist by itself; it is invariably intertwined with the lie. They are linked in the most intimate, most organic and profound fashion: violence cannot conceal itself behind anything except lies, and lies have nothing to maintain them save violence. Anyone who…
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March 19, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Alexander Pope BIRTHDAYS: 1589 William Bradford, English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.…
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March 18, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The resentful man is a human with the capacity for affection so poorly developed that his understanding for the motives of others very nearly does not exist.” — Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate BIRTHDAYS: 1548 Cornelis Ketel, Dutch portrait painter and poet. 1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter, cartoonist and etcher. 1657…
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March 17, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.” — William Gibson BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter. 1628 François Girardon, French sculptor. 1665 Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, French harpsichordist, organist, singer, and composer. Violin sonata n.1 d moll, and Prélude&Chaconne “L’Inconstante” 1685 Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait…
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March 16, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” — James Madison BIRTHDAYS: 1663 Nicolas Siret, French baroque composer and organist. Passacaille. 1751 James Madison, American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. Madison was popularly acclaimed as the…
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March 15, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 270 Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus), early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time…
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March 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The difference between genius and mediocrity is that genius is always questioning.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Pieter Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physician (Leyden jar). 1726 Joseph Anton Steffan [Josef Antonín Štěpán], Bohemian harpsichordist and composer, born in Kopidlno, Kingdom of Bohemia. Piano Concerto in E-fat major 1790 Ludwig Emil Grimm,…
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