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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Mars is there, waiting to be reached.” — Buzz Aldrin BIRTHDAYS: 1679 Jean-François de Troy, French painter (Rococo style). 1756 Mozart, widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in Western music history. Symphony No. 41 Jupiter 1832 Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, logician, photographer, and Anglican deacon whose whimsical imagination…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you find science boring, you are learning it from a wrong teacher.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1786 Benjamin Haydon, British painter. 1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, American scientist and explorer (found 1st known dinosaur eggs, director of the American Museum of Natural History) 1918 Philip José Farmer, American sci-fi writer. 1921…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.” — Joseph-Louis Lagrange BIRTHDAYS: 1459 Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer, born in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong” — Walter E. Williams BIRTHDAYS: 1776 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German Romantic writer, judge and composer (Undine), born in Königsberg, Kingdom…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.” — John Hancock BIRTHDAYS: 1737 John Hancock, American Founding Father,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted …but to weigh and consider.” — Francis Bacon BIRTHDAYS: 1561 Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, jurist, and author renowned for advancing empirical methods in natural philosophy and serving in high offices under King James I. 1649 Pascal Collasse,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it.” — Paul Allen BIRTHDAYS: 1775 Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer. El Contrabandista, and Misa nº 1 en La Mayor: Agnus Dei. 1953 Paul Allen, an American businessman, computer programmer and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.” — Richard Henry Lee BIRTHDAYS: 1586 Johann Hermann Schein, German composer. Galliard from Suite X [a5], and Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen 1732 Richard Henry Lee,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb – and I’m not blonde either.” — Dolly Parton BIRTHDAYS: 1676 John Weldon, British composer. The Judgment of Paris: Hither all ye graces 1736 James Watt, Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced these wars, it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.” — Montesquieu BIRTHDAYS: 1543 Alfonso Ferrabosco, Italian composer who brought…