Tag: space-colonization
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September 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in a cradle forever.”― Konstantin Tsiolkovsky BIRTHDAYS: 1098 Hildegard of Bingen, German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic Church.…
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September 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Poirot,” I said. “I have been thinking.”“An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it.”― Agatha Christie, Peril at End House BIRTHDAYS: 1572 Erasmus Widmann, composer. Canzon X 1685 Gottfried Kirchhoff, composer. Partimento Prelude and Fugue in d minor 1877 Max Factor, inventor 1889 Robert Benchley, writer 1890 Agatha Christie, writer / novelist…
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September 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” — Francis Bacon BIRTHDAYS: 1737 — Michael Haydn, composer. Konzert für Horn, Altposaune und Orchester, and Requiem c-Moll (35:33) 1760 — Luigi Cherubini, composer. Requiem in C Minor (Part 1 of 3) (18:51), and Duet for Cello and Bass in G Minor MISCELLANEOUS: YES,…
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September 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” — Douglas Adams BIRTHDAYS: 1660 Daniel Defoe, novelist (Robinson Crusoe) 1688 Luca Antonio Predieri, composer. “Pace Una Volta”, and Sonata per l’offertorio 1755 Oliver Evans, inventor (high-pressure steam engine) 1819 Clara Schumann, composer. Piano Concerto in…
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September 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” — Stephen Jay Gould BIRTHDAYS: 1559 Cigoli, painter 1655 Sébastien de Brossard, composer. Stabat Mater (extraits), and Beati immaculati 1688 Ferdinand Brokoff, sculptor 1812…
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September 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” — Virgil BIRTHDAYS: 1711 William Boyce, composer. Symphony No. 1 in B-flat Major 1816 Carl Zeiss, inventor (scientific instruments and lenses) 1862 O. Henry, writer 1877 James Hopwood Jeans, physicist, mathematician, and scientist (astronomer) MISCELLANEOUS: DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME. 2…
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September 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca BIRTHDAYS: 1588 — Nicholas Lanier, composer. No more shall meads (Love’s Constancy) 1645 Romeyn de Hooghe, painter 1659 Henry Purcell, composer. Rondeau from Abdelazer (Z570), and Dido’s Lament (Dido and Aeneas), and The Golden Sonata, and The Fairy Queen…
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September 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.” — George Carlin BIRTHDAYS: 1583 Girolamo Frescobaldi, composer. Toccata Settima, and Se l’aura Spira 1618 Joan…
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September 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you’ll be so weak you won’t be able to believe the simplest true things.” — Lewis Carroll BIRTHDAYS: 1672 Nicolas de Grigny, French composer. Tierce en Taille 1841 Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer…
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September 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.” — Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 1635 Paul Esterházy, composer. Pangue lingua 1726 François-André Danican Philidor, composer. Danse de village, and Sinfonia 1 in g minor from l’Art de la Modulation, and Cinquième Suite for the oboe 1737…
