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

 

 

Thought for The Day:

 

"Modern governments actually spend relatively little on programs and systems that benefit all citizens, such as national defense or the judicial system; mainly they are concerned with infringing on the property rights of one (less politically powerful) group of citizens for the benefit of another (more politically powerful) group."

— Thomas J. DiLorenzo

 

 

This is worth a read: please consider signing... the Great Barrington Declaration.

 

 

 

Birthdays:

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663– 1712):  In dulci jubilo, and Warum betrübst du dich mein Herz (LV 52)

 

Robert Fulton (1765 – 1815)

 

1778 Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 – 1837):  Fantasie

 

Charles Lyell (1797 - 1875)

 

Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 – 1847):  Overture in C Major

 

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

 

P. J. O'Rourke (1947 -    )

 

Condoleezza Rice (1954 -    )