Tag: travel
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June 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The shame of speaking unskilfully were small if the tongue onely were thereby disgrac’d: But as the Image of a King in his Seale ill-represented is not so much a blemish to the waxe, or the Signet that seat’d it, as to the Prince it representeth, so disordered speech is not…
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June 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard P. Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1819: Gustave Courbet, French realist painter. 1832 Nicolaus Otto, German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal…
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June 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe BIRTHDAYS: 1588 Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer and Baroque music theorist. Also spricht der Höhe, and…
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June 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise…” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1625 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer, and engineer (discovered four of Saturn’s moons). 1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor). Adagio 1810 Robert Schumann, German pianist, composer, and…
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June 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Is the man, for example, engaged in the mass-production of lavatory cisterns encouraged to bring to his daily monotonous toil the vision splendid of an increasingly hygienic world? I doubt it; yet there is much merit in sanitary plumbing—more, if you come to think of it, than there is in warfare.…
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June 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (Las Meninas). 1606 Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist (El Cid). 1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor. 1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer. Dixit Dominus a 8…
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June 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (first woman to receive an academic degree from a university). 1665 Nicolas Bernier, French composer. Sapho 1900 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British physicist and engineer (invented holography; Nobel…
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