Tag: painting
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June 22, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” — Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 1611 Pablo Bruna, Spanish composer. Tiento de medio registro de mano derecha de primeiro tono, and Pange Lingua. 1684 Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and maestro di cappella (St. Phillip’s Cathedral, 1727-65), born in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany.…
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June 21, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Charles Edward Horn, British opera singer, composer, and music director. Cherry ripe 1805 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, German composer. Der Schiffer fährt zu Land 1896 Charles Momsen, American inventor, known…
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June 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1717 Jacques Saly, French sculptor. 1819 Jacques Offenbach, German-born French composer, cellist, and impresario who pioneered the operetta genre with nearly 100 satirical stage works that critiqued bourgeois society and…
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June 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” — Blaise Pascal BIRTHDAYS: 1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, scientist, inventor, writer/philosopher; known for Pascal’s Law, contributions to probability, fluids, and early mechanical calculator. 1783 Thomas Sully, American portrait…
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June 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.” — C. S. Lewis BIRTHDAYS: 1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect. 1677 Antonio Maria…
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January 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations BIRTHDAYS: 1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, Italian music composer, born in Lodi, Duchy of Milan. Stabat Mater. 1566 Angelo Notari, Italian composer,…
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January 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin BIRTHDAYS: 1745 Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor and pioneer balloonist (Montgolfière-style hot air balloon) 1822 Heinrich Schliemann, German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. 1838 Max Bruch, German composer. Romanze Op. 85 1832 Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor 1872 Alexander Scriabin,…
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January 4, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman BIRTHDAYS: 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi [Draghi], Italian Baroque organist, composerborn in Jesi, Papal States. Tre giorni son che Nina, and Stabat Mater Dolorosa 1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni,…
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