December 11 is the 345th day of the year, there are 20 days left
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Today's number is 11

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11 and its multiples generate fun fractions (more later)

11 is the smallest positive integer with a 3 syllable name
11 is the 5th prime and the smallest 2 digit prime
If a number is divisible by 11, so is its reverse, for example: 165 and 561
if no 2 consective digits of a number add up to more than nine, then multiplying it by eleven generates a number which is the reverse of the product of the original number's reverse multiplied by 11. Example: 15 x 11=165 and 51 x 11 = 651

OK, deep breath
11 goes into 99 exactly 9 times. As a result, the decimal expansion of any common fraction with 11 in the denominator will be a two digit infinite repeat.
1/11 = .09 repeated,
2/11 = .18 repeated,
3/11 = .27 repeated,
4/11 = .36 repeated, etc.
The repeating 2 digits are the product of the numerator and .09 for numerators less than 11. For example, 7 x .09 = .63, so 7/9 = .63 repeated indefinitely.

An 11 sided polygon is a hendecagon or an undecagon

11 is significant in Thelema
11 is a master number in Numerology

11 is a come out win at craps
11 is sodium

There are 11 players per side on the field at one time in soccer, cricket, field hockey and US style football

Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", has 11 consecutive repetitions of the same chord.
Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven.
There is a Grateful Dead song named "The Eleven" which has an 11/8 time signature.

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Title 11 of the US Code is BANKRUPTCY

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11 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Tubero and Maximus The maximum tuber, yeah!
Nero Claudius Drusus was victorious at the Battle of the Lupia River and then built fortresses near Bonn, Dorsten, Haltern, and Oberaden

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11 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Taurus The hare & the bull; WTF?
Artabanus III of the Arsacid Dynasty became ruler of Parthia

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On this day in:

1282 -- The last native Prince of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, was killed
1905 -- A workers' uprising in Kiev, Russia, established the Shuliavka Republic
1917 -- Allenby entered Jerusalem and declares martial law.
1934 -- Bill Wilsontook his last drink and entered treatment for the last time.
1936 -- Edward VIII's abdication took effect
1937 -- Italy quit the League of Nations.
1941 -- Germany and Italy declared war on the US
1946 -- UNICEF was founded
1964 -- Che Guevara's speech at the UN General Assembly
1968 -- The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
1981 -- US supported fascist troops tortured, raped and massacred 900 civilians at El Mozote, El Salvador ***
1994 -- Yeltsin ordered troops into Chechnya.
1997 -- The Kyoto Protocol was opened for signing. The US signed but did not ratify or follow.
2001 -- The PRC joined the WTO
2008 -- Bernard Madoff was arrested.

*** The butchers were trained at the infamous US School of Assassins, now renamed and relocated to Fort Benning

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Born this day in:

1803 -- Hector Berlioz, composer
1830 -- Kamehameha V
1843 -- Robert Koch, microbiologist and physician, first bacteriologist
1863 -- Annie Jump Cannon, astronomer
1882 -- Max Born, physicist
1882 -- Fiorello H. La Guardia, Republican New Dealer
1890 -- Carlos Gardel, singer, songwriter and actor
1899 -- Julio de Caro, violinist, composer and conductor
1904 -- Marge, cartoonist
1908 -- Elliott Carter, composer
1916 -- Perez Prado, singer, songwriter, pianist, bandleader, king of the mambo
1918 -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, novelist, historian short story author
1926 -- Big Mama Thornton, singer, songwriter, musician
1931 -- Rita Moreno, actress, singer and dancer
1938 -- Enrico Macias, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1938 -- McCoy Tyner, jass musician
1939 -- Tom Hayden, activist who drafted the Port Huron Statement (Go read it)
1940 -- David Gates, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1943 -- John Kerry, Navy lieutenant, activist, politician
1944 -- Brenda Lee, singer & songwriter
1954 -- Jermaine Jackson, one of the Jacksons
1958 -- Nikki Sixx, bassist and songwriter,
1961 -- Dave King, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1964 -- Dave Schools, singer, songwriter, bass player
1966 -- Erik Honore, guitarist and producer

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Died this day in:

1686 -- Louis, Grand Conde, Le Grande Conde
1872 -- Kamehameha V
1964 -- Sam Cooke, singer and sngwriter
1975 -- Lee Wiley, jazz singer
1997 -- Simon Jeffes, guitarist and composer
2008 -- Bettie Page, model

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Indiana Day (United States)
Mountain Top Removal Day (US)
International Mountain Day
National Tango Day (Argentina)

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So, for music,
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The Rolling Stones

Hector Berlioz

Carlos Gardel

Julio de Caro

Elliott Carter

Perez Prado

Big Mama Thornton

Rita Moreno

Enrico Macias

McCoy Tyner

David Gates

Brenda Lee

Jermaine Jackson

Nikki Sixx

Dave King

Sam Cooke

Lee Wiley

Simon Jeffes

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Bonus:
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The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus

Sam Cooke

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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picture is P1030411 taken 11/25/2012 (Shasta)

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