March 5 is the 64th day of the year, there are 301 days left
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Today's number is 5

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5 is the third prime
5 is the third Sophie Germain prime
5 is a Fermat prime
5 is the only prime that is the sum of 2 consecutive numbers
5 is the only prime ending in 5
5 is the fifth Fibonacci number
There are 5 Platonic Solids (and myriads of Platonic relationships)
A 5 sided polygon is a pentagon (lower case)
A building full of insane war mongers is a Pentagon (Capitalized initial letter)
A 5 sided star is a pentagram
5 is the length of the hypotenuse of a 3,4,5 triangle, often used in construction & carpentry.
5 is boron
A pentatonic scale has 5 notes per octave
The Book of Five Rings by master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is must reading, trust me.
I-5 connects San Diego, CA with Blaine, Wa
The Five Families refers to the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese "crime families" **.

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5 is an important number in Discordianism. There is the Law of Fives as well as the Pentabarf, which has five rules. Each page of the Principia Discordia is labeled with five digits.

is an important number in Discordianism. There is the Law of Fives as well as the Pentabarf, which has five rules. Each page of the Principia Discordia is labeled with five digits.

** The so-called crime families were simply non-publicly traded corporations following the standard amoral, sociopathic model inherent in "pure" (predatory) laissez faire capitalism but with inadequate PR. Though New York based, they represent the epitome of Chicago school free market mechanisms.

To relax or take a break, especially of 5 minutes duration used to be called to

There are only 5 Platonic solids because

Penrose tilings

Title 5 of the US Code is GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES

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5 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius
John the Baptist and/or Jesus of Nazareth may or may not have been born this year.

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5 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla
Tiberius conquered Germania Inferior
Wang Mang, was granted the "Nine Awards of Imperial Favor"
Livilla married Drusus Julius Caesar,
Julia, daughter of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla was born

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On this day in:

1496 – Henry VII of England issued letters patent to John Cabot to explore unknown lands.
1616 – Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium was added to the Index
1766 – The first Spanish governor of Louisiana arrived in New Orleans.
1770 – The Boston Massacre
1836 – Samuel Colt patented the first production-model revolver
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait opened
1872 – George Westinghouse patented the air brake.
1933 – FDR declared a "bank holiday"
1933 – The Nazi Party received 43.9% at the Reichstag elections,
1940 – The Katyn massacre.
1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons became effective
1981 – The Sinclair Research ZX81 home computer was launched
1984 – The UK miners' strike began

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Born this day in:

1512 – Gerardus Mercator, mathematician and cartographer
1779 – Benjamin Gompertz, mathematician and statistician
1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, soprano
1870 – Frank Norris, journalist and author
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Satan, The Antichrist (official US, etc,) **
1882 – Dora Marsden, author, suffragette, and activist
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, guitarist and composer
1898 – Zhou Enlai, politician
1910 – Momofuku Ando, instant ramen king ***
1918 – James Tobin, economist, proposed tax on FX transactions to minimize speculation
1929 – J. B. Lenoir, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1938 – Paul Evans, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1948 – Eddy Grant, singer, songwriter, and musician
1949 – Tom Russell, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1952 – Alan Clark, keyboard player
1956 – Teena Marie, singer, songwriter, and producer
1958 – Andy Gibb, singer, songwriter, and actor

** Also, per wikipedia, a Marxist theorist, feminist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist
*** patron saint of impoverished students

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Died this day in:
1770 – Crispus Attucks, slave
1829 – John Adams, Bounty mutineer
1950 – Edgar Lee Masters, poet, author, and playwright
1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, pianist, composer, and conductor
1953 – Joseph Stalin, Stalin
1963 – Patsy Cline, singer, songwriter
1963 – Cowboy Copas, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, politician **
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, singer, songwriter, and musician
2013 – Hugo Chavez, politician

** The head of a democratically elected goernment in Iran which was overthrown in a coup organized and carried out by the CIA.

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Roll your own

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So, for music,
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Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty

Rosa Luxemburg

Heitor Villa-Lobos

J. B. Lenoir

Eddy Grant

Alan Clark

Mohammad Mosaddegh, the CIA's first victim

Vivian Stanshall

Bonus Political commentary:

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picture is "I Still Eat Top Ramen" by Alan Levine

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