{"id":2476,"date":"2013-07-20T18:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-07-20T18:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T18:56:16","slug":"what-we-inherit-from-gregor-mendel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/07\/20\/what-we-inherit-from-gregor-mendel\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Inherit from Gregor Mendel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GregorOn this day in 356 BC, Alexander the Great<\/a> was born. Or maybe it was tomorrow. It was a long time ago. Memories fade. I’ve never thought much of him and his pointless life. His was a very typical story: conquered a bunch of stuff, die, and it all falls apart. I don’t mean to say that had his accomplishments lasted it would have made his life more meaningful. But it surely is the case that the only real purpose of his conquests was power. In this regard, Genghis Khan comes off a lot better. The one thing that’s always interested me is that Aristotle was his tutor. In general, it tends to lower my opinion of the philosopher who regardless was never one to question existing power. I do hope he was paid well to teach the little bastard.<\/p>\n

German impressionist Max Liebermann<\/a> was born in 1847. He thankfully died before the Nazis got to kill him. The same cannot be said of mathematician Otto Blumenthal<\/a> who was born in 1876. He managed to escape to the Netherlands. Unfortunately, that was not far enough away as the Nazis took over control of the country in May of 1940. Blumenthal was deported to Theresienstadt, where I assume he was simply murdered in 1944.<\/p>\n

The great songwriter Cindy Walker<\/a> was born in 1918. She wrote many songs you know and love, but especially this one:<\/p>\n