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March 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!” — Yuri Gagarin BIRTHDAYS: 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant, navigator, and explorer born in Florence who participated in transatlantic expeditions sponsored by Spain and Portugal, primarily between…
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March 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian Prince of Venosa and composer, born in Venosa, Kingdom of Naples. O Vos Omnes 1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of J. S. Bach, born in Weimar,…
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March 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria sub…
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March 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War BIRTHDAYS: 1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. 1710 Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli, Italian composer, born in Padua, Republic of Venice. Aria Pastorale, and Aria…
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March 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…
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March 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in…
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March 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” — Alexander Graham Bell BIRTHDAYS: 1847 Alexander Graham Bell, Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. 1857 Alfred Bruneau, French cellist, and composer, chiefly of opera. La belle au bois dormant MISCELLANEOUS: IT DOESN’T SOUND…
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March 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS: 1824 Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer. Má Vlast, No. 2. Vltava (River Moldau) 1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], Yiddish author and playwright (Fiddler…
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March 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1445 Sandro Botticelli, Florentine Early Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus), born in Florence, Republic of Florence. 1494 Il Bacchiacca [Franceso Ubertini], Italian Renaissance painter, born…
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