Source: wsj.com 

 

 

Welcome to my experimental blog. Here you may find links to interesting or useful articles, and meet individuals whom I think have helped decrease misery, or added beauty and happiness in this world.

 

 

Thought for The Day...

 

“When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.”

 

― Albert Jay Nock

 

 

Check out the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

 

This is already 2 years old: "Miss Virginia"

 

 

Birthdays:

 

 

Domenico Ferrabosco (1513 – 1574): "Io Mi Son Giovinetta"

 

 

Francesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676):  Canzon a 3 (Venice, 1656) for two violins, cello, and continuo

 

 

 

Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895)

 

 

Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 – 1890)

 

 

Teller (1948 -    )