Monday Open Thread; July 24 is Simon Bolivar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, and Bolivia)
July 24 is the 205th day of the year. There are 160 days left.
Today's number is 24
24 is 2 (a prime) x 12 (a great number system base)
24 is 4 factoral
24 is the sum of two primes, 11 & 13
24 is the number of ways that 4 different things can be ordered
Ten to the 24 of anything is a yotta (rhymes with lotta)
A tesseract (hypercube) has 24 square faces
The product of any 4 consecutive numbers is divisible by 24
24 is chromium
There are 24 major & minor keys in western tonal music
24 carat gold is 100% pure (and seriously malleable)
There are 24 hours in a day (by convention)
Title 24 of the US Code is HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS..
24 BCE
was the Consulship of Augustus and Flaccus
Tenth consulship for Augustus, ho hum.
24 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro
King Yuri of Silla became such
Namhae, king of Silla, died
Strabo died
On this day in:
1534 -- Jacques Cartier claimed the Gaspe' Peninsula for France
1823 -- Chile abolished Slavery
1823 -- The Battle of Lake Maracaibo cemented independence for the Gran Colombia.
1847 -- Brigham Young led 148 Mormons into Salt Lake Valley
1901 -- O. Henry was released from prison after doing time for embezzlement
1911 -- Machu Picchu was re-discovered by Hiram Bingham III
1922 -- The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the League of Nations
1929 -- The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect, heh
1943 -- Operation Gomorrah (bombing of Hamburg) began, eventually killing over 30,000 people
1950 -- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station began operating
1974 -- The Supremes ordered Tricky Dick to turn over the tapes
1983 -- The Sri Lankan Civil War began
Born this day in:
1783 -- Simon Bolivar, revolutionary
1786 -- Joseph Nicollet, mathematician and astronomer who mapped the upper Mississippi
1802 -- Alexandre Dumas, novelist and playwright
1860 -- Alphonse Mucha, painter and illustrator
1877 -- Calogero Vizzini, sicilian Mafia boss
1889 -- Agnes Meyer Driscoll, aka Madam X, a cryptanalyst
1895 -- Robert Graves, poet, novelist & critic
1897 -- Amelia Earhart, pilot and author
1900 -- Zelda Fitzgerald, writer, first US flapper
1912 -- Essie Summers, major romance novelist
1914 -- Frances Oldham Kelsey, pharmacologist and FDA reviewer, refused to approve thalidomide
1916 -- John D. MacDonald, author
1920 -- Bella Abzug, aka Battling Bella, lawyer, activist, politician and hat fancier
1921 -- Billy Taylor, jazz pianist
1935 -- Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist
1942 -- Heinz, bassist, singer and songwriter (Telstar)
1942 -- David Miner, guitarist, singer, songwriter, co-founder of The Great Society
1944 -- Jim Armstrong, guitarist
1946 -- Herve Vilard, singer and songwriter
1953 -- Jon Faddis, trumpet player
1969 -- Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer and dancer
Died this day in:
1601 -- Joris Hoefnagel, painter and printmaker
1986 -- Fritz Albert Lipmann, biochemist, co-discoverer of coenzyme A
1992 -- Arletty, star of Les Enfants du Paradis
2012 -- Larry Hoppen, singer and guitarist, co-founder of Orleans
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Day for International Justice
So, for music The Kellogg-Briand Pact Cape Canaveral Billy Taylor Heinz David Miner Jim Armstrong Herve Vilard John Faddis J-Lo Larry Hoppen-
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
Cape Canaveral
Billy Taylor
Heinz
David Miner
Jim Armstrong
Herve Vilard
John Faddis
J-Lo
Larry Hoppen
Bonus:
Billy Taylor --
David Miner / The Great Society --
Comments
good morning
The European way to express the date is 24/7, but I hope the day doesn't last a week.
Half an inch of rain yesterday. Tomato crop is large this year. Made sauce and salsa this weekend. Such a contrast to last years drought.
I hope none of you were caught in the floods or fires. Amazing to me there is no mention of global warming when they report on these increasing weather events.
All the fires out west are not being covered in my area.
http://www.tribtown.com/tag/western-wildfires/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-10/raging-western-wildfi...
Hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Happy Simon Bolivar day!
Morning EL and all.
Lookout; I thought of a blessing just for you...'May your tomatoes be large and ripe and sweet'.
(If you come up to my house with a sack veggies in hand...I'll run and hide.)
I'm sitting on Simon Bolivar street come to think of it. The next one north is Gran Colombia.
We gotta party like it's 1823...
Everyone have a good one.
I want a Pony!
Good morning & Happy Simon Bolivar Day to you too, Arrow.
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I don't know what made me laugh the most:
OR
but you should most assuredly do the latter.
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 --
@Arrow
We should filk the whole thing.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good morning, Lookout. Good hearing about the tomatoes -
ours are getting there, but not great numbers and we've lost some of the better lookin ones to critter pilferage. We get daily updates on the CA fires of significance, but no major coverage of anything except really large, new, or ravenous ones.
Hope you have a good day yourself.
Intended as a reply to Lookout, but didn't show up that way ZO - edited to try to make it into a reply by inserting ampersandpound1
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 --
Happy Bolivar Day!
Isn't it interesting that of all the countries his revolution was active in, three out of the four of them have been havens for really good ideas in this century?
Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia are certainly far from perfect, but they're leading lights if you look at which nation-states are politically advocating, both domestically and internationally, for policies which will allow the human race to survive, and maybe not in misery.
Other notables still fighting: Iceland
Notable fighters who have sadly been defeated: Brazil
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
@Cant Stop the Macedonian Signal Whoops, I forgot Peru.
Whoops, I forgot Peru. Well, three out of five still ain't bad.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good afternoon, CSTMS, thanks for reading. It is also
interesting that the two most directly and heavily influenced by Uncle Stoopid, Colombia and Panama, have had such a negative existence for ever so long. I do fear for Venezuela, however, they need to seriously convert their economy, pronto. It is still seriously dependent upon production of a really terrible grade of crude oil, and they need to be well clar of that when the bottom falls out.
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 I also smell the CIA in
I also smell the CIA in the various machinations there. Wish them well (the Venezuelans, not the CIA).
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver