September 12, 2016 Open Thread, El Batallon de San Patricio

September 12 is the 255th day of the year. There are 110 days left.
It is National Chocolate Milkshake Day

Today's number is 12

12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. making it a great base for a number system
12 is the sum of two primes, 5 & 7
A polygon with 12 sides is a dodecagon.
A polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron.
Cuboids (cubes & rectangular prisms) have 12 edges
Regular icosahedrons have 12 vertices.
12 is magnesium
A year has 12 months
The 24 hour day is generally broken up into 2 - 12 hour segments, am & pm
There are 12 inches in a foot.
There are twelve basic hues in the color wheel
In craps, 12, is a double 6. It is called Boxcars and is craps (loses or craps out) on a come out roll.
Humans have 12 pairs of ribs
There are 12 Federal Reserve Districts
There were 12 kniggits of the round table
There are 12 signs of the zodiac
There were 12 Angry Men
The 12 bar blues is a popular musical
12th Night is a comedy by Shakespeare

Title 12 of the US Code is BANKS AND BANKING

12 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Quirinius
Emperor Augustus was declared Pontifex Maximus.
Halley's Comet appeared.

12 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Capito
Caligula was born

On this day in:
490 BCE -- The Battle of Marathon
1213 -- Crusaders won the Battle of Muret then slaughtered the Cathars fleeing from the town thereby ending the Cathar Genocide Holy Albigensian Crusade

1609 -- Henry Hudson began exploring the Hudson River.
1683 -- John III Sobieski, et. al. stopped the Ottoman Empire's conquests and advances at the Battle of Vienna
1846 -- Elizabeth Barrett eloped with Robert Browning.
1847 -- At the Battle of Chapultepec, 30 previously captured members of the Battallon San Patricio were hung en masse in view of Chapultepec. The San Patricios were a largely Irish force of immigrants to the US who fought on the side of Mexico during the US war on Mexico. They were staunch fighters who gave the US troops a great deal of difficulty, especially at Churubusco. They are honored and celebrated in Mexico to this day.

1910 -- The Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 took place in Munich
1933 -- Leo Szilard had the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
1974 -- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed in a coup d'etat
1977 -- Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died in police custody from torture & beatings at their hands.
1990 -- The "Four Powers" and both German states and signed the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany.
2003 -- The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya and the Libyan government fell for it

Born this day in:
1818 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, the inventor of the Gatling gun
1862 -- Carl Eytel, painter and illustrator
1880 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist, wise-ass, and critic
1892 -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., a publisher who founded Alfred A. Knopf Inc.
1897 -- Irene Joliot-Curie, chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate
1913 -- Jesse Owens, sprinter and long jumper
1931 -- George Jones, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1944 -- Barry White, singer & songwriter
1944 -- Colin Young, singer
1946 -- Tony Bellamy, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1948 -- Steve Turre, trombonist and educator
1951 -- Ali-Ollie Woodson, singer, songwriter and keyboard player
1952 -- Gerry Beckley, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1952 -- Neil Peart, drummer, songwriter, and producer
1954 -- Scott Hamilton, saxophonist
1956 -- Barry Andrews, singer and keyboard player
1956 -- Brian Robertson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1968 -- Larry LaLonde, guitarist and songwriter
1970 -- Nathan Larson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1974 -- Jennifer Nettles, singer & songwriter
1977 -- Jeff Irwin, singer, songwriter and producer
1977 -- James McCartney, singer & songwriter
1988 -- Amanda Jenssen, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:
1712 -- Jan van der Heyden, painter and illustrator
1764 -- Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer and theorist
1819 -- Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, Prussian general, hero of Waterloo
1869 -- Peter Mark Roget, physician, theologian, and lexicographer
1977 -- Steve Biko, South African activist
2000 -- Stanley Turrentine, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
2003 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
2007 -- Bobby Byrd, singer, songwriter and producer
2014 -- John Gustafson, singer, songwriter and bass player
2014 -- Joe Sample, pianist and composer

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Commemoration of the mass hanging of the Saint Patrick's Battalion. (Mexico)
National Day of Encouragement (United States)
National Chocolate Milkshake Day (United States)

So, for music we gots:
El Batallon San Patricio
Emperor Haile Selassie
George Jones
Barry White
Colin Young
Tony Bellamy
Steve Turre
Ali-Ollie Woodson
Gerry Beckley
Neil Peart
Scott Hamilton,
Barry Andrews
Brian Robertson,
Larry LaLonde
Nathan Larson
Jennifer Nettles
Jeff Irwin
James McCartney
Amanda Jenssen
Stanley Turrentine
Bobby Byrd
John Gustafson
Joe Sample

El Batallon San Patricio - The Chieftans, Ry Cooder, Banda de Gaita de Batallón, et. al

Emperor Haile Selassie with Bob Maley & The Wailers

George Jones

Barry White

Colin Young

Tony Bellamy

Steve Turre

Ali-Ollie Woodson

Gerry Beckley

Neil Peart

Scott Hamilton

Barry Andrews

Brian Robertson

Larry LaLonde

Nathan Larson

Jennifer Nettles

Jeff Irwin

James McCartney

Amanda Jenssen

Stanley Turrentine

Johnny Cash

Bobby Byrd

John Gustafson

Joe Sample

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smiley7's picture

and a belated note to say thank you for your ongoing support, greatly appreciated. Smile

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Lookout's picture

I always enjoy your number research. 12 is a powerful number. Base 12 or duodecimal has many advantages.

The number twelve, a superior highly composite number, is the smallest number with four non-trivial factors (2, 3, 4, 6), and the smallest to include as factors all four numbers (1 to 4) within the subitizing range. As a result of this increased factorability of the radix and its divisibility by a wide range of the most elemental numbers (whereas ten has only two non-trivial factors: 2 and 5, and not 3, 4, or 6), duodecimal representations fit more easily than decimal ones into many common patterns, as evidenced by the higher regularity observable in the duodecimal multiplication table. As a result, duodecimal has been described as the optimal number system.[4] Of its factors, 2 and 3 are prime, which means the reciprocals of all 3-smooth numbers (such as 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9...) have a terminating representation in duodecimal. In particular, the five most elementary fractions ( 1⁄2, 1⁄3, 2⁄3, 1⁄4 and 3⁄4) all have a short terminating representation in duodecimal (0.6, 0.4, 0.8, 0.3 and 0.9, respectively), and twelve is the smallest radix with this feature (because it is the least common multiple of 3 and 4). This all makes it a more convenient number system for computing fractions than most other number systems in common use, such as the decimal, vigesimal, binary, octal and hexadecimal systems. Although the trigesimal and sexagesimal systems (where the reciprocals of all 5-smooth numbers terminate) do even better in this respect, this is at the cost of unwieldy multiplication tables and a much larger number of symbols to memorize.

Dr Who fans will know there are:

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And there's

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In Australia there's this collection of sea stacks known as the 12 apostles

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One more - an interesting movie (better than oceans twelve to my mind)

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Hope you all have a great week!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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The political revolution continues

Lookout's picture

We were not going to talk dirty on c99!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

enhydra lutris's picture

system & its benefits. It's cleaner, but that also takes some of the fun out of things. Wink

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

and that's why I'm gross.
(That's my story, anyway)

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There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.

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September is unofficial Porsche month. For today we have the 912. When the company introduced the 911 with its new flat-6 motor, they were afraid they would lose sales due to its high cost so they improved the 356's flat-4 and introduced a lower-priced model with that motor and the 911's body.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL7fHPvJTU4]

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

enhydra lutris's picture

Ferry Porsche's natalmonth, dontcha think?

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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That'd be 919, the winner of the last two LeMans 24 hr. races.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

enhydra lutris's picture

it is already in the can so to speak.

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Gerrit's picture

serious note, thanks for remembering Steve Biko, the anti-apartheid activist, murdered by police. In his honour:

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Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.

enhydra lutris's picture

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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As catholics in they faced discrimination (recall JFK in 1963, let alone 1847). As Irish fleeing the famine they found common cause with the Mexicans they met each Sunday at mass.

Protestant deserters generally were not hung but all the Catholic ones were.

There's an ok Tom Berenger movie that gets the history mostly right.

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enhydra lutris's picture

British citizens. Some who had been in the army were shanghaid, which presents another complication. Also some were paid stand-ins, which is yet another strange complication.

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so much I don't know!

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which would have the canvas to flesh out the reality better than the Berenger movie.

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mimi's picture

receiving visitors to the newly opened Trump Hotel in DC with demonstrators and some hot Latin American Music.

at least that is what an intern from my former employer thinks the Trump Hotel deserves. Smile

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --