It's Monkey Day!
and
There are but 17 days remaining until the end of the year, and
There are only 7 days until the December (Winter) Solstice on December 21, at 20:48 PST

14 is 2 x 7; I'll get back to that.
14 is the sum of the first 3 square numbers (1+4+9)
14 is Silicon

14 is Bob Cousey, Y.A. Tittle and a host of other sports hall of famers.
14 is the number of days in a fortnight
14 is the number of pounds in a stone
14 is the number of lines in a sonnet
14 is the number of points in Woodrow Wilson's 14 points. No, honest, I'm not making that up.

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Alrighty. If 14 = 7 x 2, then x/14 = x/(7x2). As we learned in last Monday's Open Thread, fractions of the form x/7 where x is a whole number not a multiple of 7 or 999,999 have an interesting property. For any even numerator x, x/14 will factor down to (x/2)/7, so even fractions of the form x/14 have the same interesting property. Interestingly enough, heh, for odd numerators, x/14 has a variant of that property. Last Monday = http://caucus99percent.com/content/monday-morning-open-thread-12072015 crossposted to http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/07/1457346/-Monday-Morning-Open-Th...

Briefly, the fractional part of x/7 is the number sequence 142857 repeated endlessly in that order from a varying but determinable starting point within that series. Thus 1/7 = 0.142857142857..., 2/7 = 0.2857142857..., 3/7 = 0.42857142857..., etc. 2/14 = 1/7 = 0.142857, etc. When x/14 has an odd numerator, the 142857 repeat kicks in, but not necessarily in mid series as it does with x/7. Instead, 1/14, for example = 0.071428571... and 3/14 = 0.214285714..., 5/14 = 0.357142857... etc.
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Cambrian animals of the genus Hallucinogenia (wikiCommons picture) had 14 legs.

14 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Crassus and Lentulus. Claudia Pulchra was born. She became the 3rd wife of Publius Quinctilius Varus. (Yep, that Varus again. This is the 3rd time he has popped up in a Monday Open Thread in the few months I've been doing them. One time for each legion he got annihilated.)

14 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Pompeius and Appuleius. On August 19, Caesar Augustus died. He was succeeded by Tiberius on September 18. He was also declared to be a god, but I don't know the date. Being a god was easier then - just die with a lot of fans. Augustus' grandson, Postumus Agrippa, was slain by his own guards on August 20, but that isn't why he was named Posthumus.

On December 14

1287, St. Lucia's flood affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany. A storm tide breached the Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands, killing over 50,000 people with some estimates up to 80,000 people. This was the 6th worst flood n recorded history. Thanks, Lucy.

1542, Princess Mary Stuart became Mary, Queen of Scots. As the daughter of a Frenchwoman, Mary of Guise, she was no true Scotsman, but, whatever.

1812 The French invasion of Russia ended as the remnants of the Grande Armee were driven out of Russia. Napoleons overtures were declined.

1819 Alabama became the 22nd U.S. state. It did not secede until January 11, 1861, lasting all of 41 years and 28 days..

1900 Max Planck presented a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.

1911 Roald Amundsen, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, became the first to reach the South Pole.

1946 The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish its headquarters in New York, New York.

1958 The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition became the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility. One would think that they would also be the last, having proven it not to be inaccessible.

1964 The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States

1971 During the Bangladesh Liberation War over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals were executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)

1994 Construction began on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river, a big time eco-disaster

2008 Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.

Born on this day in
1546 Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer and chemist. Kepler discovered his laws while fiddling with Tycho's data.
1911 Spike Jones, an American "singer", "actor", and "bandleader".
1914 Nam Phuong, Vietnamese wife of Bao Dai.
1916 Shirley Jackson, an American author. The Lottery - recall it or read it, still good stuff.

and those who died today in
1799 George Washington, an American general and politician, 1st President of the United States.
1920 George Gipp, an American football player.
1963 Dinah Washington, an American singer and pianist.
1974 Walter Lippmann, an American journalist and author.
1989 Andrei Sakharov, a Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1993 Myrna Loy, American actress and singer. aka Nora Charles.
1994 Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas.
1997 Kurt Winter, a Canadian guitarist and songwriter (The Guess Who).
2013 Peter O'Toole, Irish-English actor, singer, and producer.

Holidays & such, this is:
Alabama Day (in Alabama)
Forty-seven Ronin remembrance day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo)
Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)
Monkey Day (global)

Tchaikovsky : Overture 1812

Alabama, heh. Well, they did give us "The Snake" and inspire some tunes

Kenny "The Snake" Stabler: Bad to the Bone. On and off the field

Lotte Lenya - Moon of Alabama (Good Quality Audio)

Nina Simone: Moon Over Alabama with an unusual ending.

Spike freaking Jones? - I guess I gotta do it

Spike Jones: That Old Black Magic

Spike Jones My Old Flame

Dinah Washington - Teach Me Tonight

Dinah Washington - Stormy Weather, 1952

Dinah Washington - What A Difference A Day Makes (1959)

The Guess Who - These Eyes [Good Quality]

The Guess Who - American Woman

Beethoven's Piano Sonata Number 14. (the "Moonlight Sonata") Turn Volume Up a Bit For this

And Now!!