Tag: technology
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August 20, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” — Plato BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Jacopo Peri, composer. L’Euridice, Prologo “La Tragedia” e Coro “Se de’ boschi” 1827 Josef Strauss, composer. Feuerfest (Polka francaise, op. 269) 1890 H. P. Lovecraft, Writer / Author / Novelist MISCELLANEOUS: HERE’S HOPING FOR CLEAR SKIES.…
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August 19, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore,And that’s what parents were created for.” — Ogden Nash BIRTHDAYS: 1580 Pierre Vernier, mathematician and inventor 1848 Gustave Caillebotte, painter. 1871 Orville Wright, inventor. 1881 George Enescu, composer. Romanian Rhapsodie No. 1 1902 Ogden Nash, poet. 1906 Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor. 1921 Gene Roddenberry,…
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August 18, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve…
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August 17, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein BIRTHDAYS: 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter 1607 Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (known for Fermat’s Last Theorem) 1686 Nicola Antonio Porpora, Italian composer and singing teacher. Morte Amara 1870 Frederick F. Russell, American army…
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August 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.” — Elon Musk BIRTHDAYS: 1495 Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter and architect. 1685 Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer. Chaconne from lesson nr.6 1686 Benedetto Marcello,…
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August 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.” — Jeffrey Tucker BIRTHDAYS: 1619 Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish painter (and cartoonist). 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher. 1725 Ferdinando Bertoni, Italian composer. Canzona, and Salve Regina in Fa maggiore 1771 Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet (The…
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August 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance…
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August 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” — Alfred Hitchcock BIRTHDAYS: 1422 William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, translator, and printer who introduced the movable-type printing press to England in 1476, establishing the nation’s first printing operation at Westminster and producing over 100 books during his…
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August 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.” — Christian Morgenstern BIRTHDAYS: 1626 Giovanni Legrenzi, Venetian Baroque organist and composer. Sonata Terza from La Cetra, Op. 10 1644 Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Bohemian-Austrian violinist and composer. Sonata XII in C Major 1696 Maurice Greene, English composer. Allemande…
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August 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”…
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