November 6 is the 310th day of the year, there are 55 days left
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Today's number is 6

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6 is
6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect number,

6 is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers.

6 similar coins can be arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact with the central one and both of its neighbors.

A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane.

There are six basic trigonometric functions.

A star of David has 6 points

Hexa is classical greek for 6
A hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces.
A cube is a special case of the hexahedron
A die is a special cube and 6 is highest number on a normal die.
Hexameter is a poetic form consisting of six feet per line
A "hex nut" is a nut with six sides, and a hex bolt has a six-sided head
The prefix "hexa-" occurs in the name of many chemical compounds, such as hexane.
A hexaflexagon is an interesting object made from a strip of paper that everybody can make and fool around with. There are several more variations than those in this video

Sex is latin for 6
A sextant forms one-sixth of a whole circle
6 musicians are a sextet
6 babies delivered in one birth are sextuplets
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A standard guitar has 6 strings
A fathom is 6 feet long (deep)
6 is highest number on either end of a standard domino

M6 is an open cluster in the constellation Scorpius.

The cells of a beehive are 6-sided
Insects have 6 legs
A benzene molecule has a ring of 6 carbon atoms
6 is the atomic number of carbon
The sixfold symmetry of snowflakes is due to the hexagonal crystal structure of water ice which comes from the hydrogen bonding of water molecules

In the Standard Model of particle physics, there are 6 types of quarks and 6 types of leptons

Common references to 6 include
6 feet under
6 degrees of separation
6th sense
6 pack
6 banger, straight 6, or v-6
6 gun or 6 shooter
Deep six.

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Title 6 of the US Code is Domestic Security (including the Heimat Sicherheitspolizei Homeland Security Organization)

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6 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus
Emperor Augustus sent ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control the rabbit plagues. (The islanders were great slingers so it made sense for a military empire to cater to them.) I wonder if they were folk slingers, or more formal?
Tiberius Claudius Nero was sent to Armenia, then retired to Rhodes. Another opportunity for me to play ...

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6 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Arruntius (Lepidus = hare, FWIW)
Josephus says that Quirinius conducted a census in Judea which caused a revolt therein which was led by led by Judas the Galilean. The revolt was put down and the rebels were crucified, but it gave birth to the Zealot movement. The zealots wished to establish a global Jewish theocracy and fought the Romans until about 70 CE. They left behind their name.

Meanwhile, in China, an occultation of Mars by the moon caused some to fear for the life of emperor Ping Di who, in fact, died of unexpected causes within a couple of months. This left it up to good old Wang Mang to select a new emperor, and he picked the 2 year old Ruzi Ying.

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On this day in:

1528 -- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stumbled across what would someday be Tejas ***
1856 -- George Eliot submitted "Scenes of Clerical Life" for publication
1865 -- The CSS Shenandoah finally surrendered to the US
1913 -- Mohandas Gandhi was busted for leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1935 -- Edwin Armstrong presented FM to the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1943 -- The Red Army recaptured Kiev from the Nazis
1944 -- Plutonium was first produced at Hanford for use in Fat Man against Nagasaki
1947 -- Meet the Press made its TV debut
1962 -- The UN condemned South Africa's apartheid and called for a boycott by members
2012 -- Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay US Senator

*** Perhaps his name, Head of a Cow, is what doomed the state to fill up with cowpokes and cowtowns?

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Born this day in:

1558 -- Thomas Kyd (d. 1594), playwright
1692 -- Louis Racine, poet
1753 -- Jean-Baptiste Breval, cellist and composer
1814 -- Adolphe Sax, invented the Krummhorn Saxophone
1833 -- Jonas Lie, author, poet, and playwright
1854 -- John Philip Sousa, composer, conductor and honorary Python
1861 -- James Naismith, invented basketball
1892 -- Harold Ross, journalist, co-founder of The New Yorker
1916 -- Ray Conniff, composer and conductor
1921 -- James Jones, novelist
1923 -- Don Lusher, trombonist and bandleader
1932 -- Stonewall Jackson, cw singer and songwriter
1937 -- Eugene Pitt, doo-wop singer
1938 -- P. J. Proby, singer and songwriter
1938 -- Diana E. H. Russell, activist and author
1939 -- Michael Schwerner, activist, civil rights martyr
1940 -- Ruth Messinger, activist
1941 -- Guy Clark, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1941 -- Doug Sahm, ditto, also plays bajo sexto
1945 -- Lani Hall, singer, lyricist and author
1946 -- George Young, guitarist and songwriter
1948 -- Glenn Frey, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 -- Arturo Sandoval, trumpet player, pianist and composer
1955 -- Maria Shriver, jurnalist, author
1961 -- Florent Pagny, singer, songwriter and actor
1962 -- Annette Zilinskas, singer and bass player
1964 -- Corey Glover, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1964 -- Greg Graffin, singer and songwriter
1966 -- Paul Gilbert, guitarist and singer
1976 -- Mike Herrera, singer, songwriter and bass player
1976 -- Jodi Martin, singer, songwriter and suitarist
1988 -- Conchita Wurst, singer

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Died this day in:

1632 -- Gustavus Adolphus
1816 -- Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble to the US Constitution
1893 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
1965 -- Clarence Williams, singer, songwriter and pianist
1970 -- Agustin Lara, singer, songwriter and actor
1989 -- Dickie Goodman, half of Buchanan and Goodman
2000 -- David Brower, Sierra Club founder
2000 -- L. Sprague de Camp, author
2005 -- Miguel Aceves Mejia, King of the Falsetto
2007 -- Hank Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
2014 -- Rick Rosas, bassist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Malaria Day in the Americas

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So, for music,
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca

Jean-Baptiste Breval

Adolphe Sax

John Philip Sousa

Harold Ross

Ray Conniff

Don Lusher

Stonewall Jackson

Eugene Pitt

P. J. Proby

Guy Clark

Doug Sahm

Lani Hall

George Young

Glenn Frey

Arturo Sandoval

Florent Pagny

Annette Zilinskas

Corey Glover

Greg Graffin

Paul Gilbert

Mike Herrera

Jodi Martin

Conchita Wurst

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Clarence Williams

Agustin Lara

Dickie Goodman

Miguel Aceves Mejia

Hank Thompson

Rick Rosas

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Bonus:
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Rick Rosas

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Doug Sahm (Texas Tornados)

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Doug Sahm and friends

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Special Swan Lake Update

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picture public domain by Yu-Chan Chen

EIDT - fixed incorrect video for Texas Tornados