Tag: technology
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April 14, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The world is my country, science is my religion.” — Christiaan Huygens BIRTHDAYS: 1629 Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. 1638 Diogo Dias Melgás, Portuguese composer of sacred polyphonic music. Adoratio Crucis 1718 Emanuele Barbella, Neapolitan composer,…
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April 13, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau BIRTHDAYS: 1743 Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[6] He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. 1769 Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter…
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April 12, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonate pour flûte à bec MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION ADULT CALIFORNIANS. Policies, not…
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April 11, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.” — Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1661 Antoine Coypel, French painter and poet. 1681 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer. Sonate pour flûte à bec 1682 Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer. Rondeau…
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April 10, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.” — Charles Baudelaire BIRTHDAYS: 1707 Michael Corrette, French organist (Church of Sainte-Marie du Temple -Paris, 1737-91), composer, and educator. Sonata n°1 Op.20 MISCELLANEOUS: ATTENTION COLONISTS. Jared Isaacman Future NASA…
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April 9, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.”…
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April 8, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.” — Adam Smith BIRTHDAYS: 1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist (Trillo del Diavolo), born in Piran, Republic of Venice. Sonata n. 5 op. 2 in La minore…
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April 7, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good, just because it’s accepted by a majority.” — Booker T. Washington BIRTHDAYS: 1613 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter. 1740 Haym Salomon, Polish-born American merchant best known for his actions during the American Revolution, where he was the prime…
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April 6, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.” — John Stuart Mill…
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April 5, 2025
THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it…
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