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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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