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Tis Prickle-Prickle, Confusion 23, 3184 YOLD

Today's number is 18

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18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later)
18 is the sum of 3 of its divisors, 3, 6, and 9
18 is argon, a noble gas
I8 is the group containing noble (inert) gases in the periodic table

The Mahabarata has 18 books, (including the Bhagavad Gita which has 18 chapters) and concerns a war between 18 armies that lasted 18 days

OK, deep breath, but first recall that 1/3 is .333 repeated forever, 1/6 is .666 repeated forever and 1/9 is .111 repeated forever.
1/18 = 0.055 repeat 5 forever
2/18 = 0.111 repeat 1 forever (1/9)
3/18 = 0.166 repeat 6 forever (1/6)
4/18 = 0.222 repeat the 2 (2/9)
5/18 = 0.277 repeat the 7
6/18 = 0.333 repeat the 3 (1/3)
7/18 = 0.388 repeat the 8
8/18 = 0.444 repeat the 4 (4/9)
9/18 = .5 (1/2)

In most countries, 18 is the age of majority
In most countries, 18 is the voting age
18 is the age of sexual consent under the Mann Act
18 is 6 pm
There are 18 chapters in Ulysses by James Joyce

Title 18 of the US Code is CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

18 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus
(That would be Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus)
Caesar Augustus introduced two of the lex Julia, the Lex Iulia de Ambitu which punished bribery when acquiring political office and the Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus which restricted marriage between differing social classes
Juba II was King of Mauretania and Lugaid Riab nDerg was High King of Ireland
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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On this day in:

860 -- A Rus fleet seized the Bosphorus and pillaged the suburbs of Constantinople. (This was in response to Byzantine aggression on the lower Don on behalf of the Khazars)
1429 -- Joan of Arc's forces beat the main English army at Patay.
1684 -- The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter was revoked
1778 -- British troops abandoned Philly.
1812 -- Madison signed the US declaration of war upon the UK, how quaint.
1815 -- The Battle of Waterloo
1830 -- The French invaded Algeria, because imperialism.
1858 -- Darwin received Wallace's paper, spurring him to publish his theory.
1873 -- Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in 1872
1935 -- cops and mounties attacked striking longshoremen, injuring 60 at Ballentyne Pier, Vancouver, BC
1940 -- Charles de Gaulle made the "Appeal of 18 June"
1940 -- Winnie gave his "Finest Hour" speech
1948 -- Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album
1954 -- Armas invaded Guatemala in a US backed coup with CIA trained troops and US supplied air forces *
1965 -- The US used B-52s to bomb suspected NLF forces in South Vietnam
1979 -- SALT II was signed
1981 -- The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk made its first flight
1982 -- Roberto Calvi's body was found hanging beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge
1983 -- Sally Ride became the first US woman in space.

* The US simply cannot stand for Guatemala to have any hint of Democracy, most recently when SOS Hillary Clinton supported and blessed a coup condemned by all members of the OAS

Born this day in:

1845 -- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician and parasitologist
1886 -- Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and paleontologist
1902 -- Louis Alter, composer and musician
1903 -- Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer
1910 -- Ray McKinley, singer, drummer, and bandleader
1913 -- Sammy Cahn, pianist and composer (teach me tonight)
1913 -- Sylvia Porter, economist, journalist and author
1926 -- Allan Sandage, astronomer and cosmologist
1933 -- Tommy Hunt, singer and flamingo
1936 -- Barack Obama Sr., economist
1942 -- Paul McCartney, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1942 -- Richard Perry, record producer
1942 -- Carl Radle, bass player and producer
1946 -- Maria Bethania, singer
1973 -- Ray LaMontagne, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:

1928 -- Roald Amundsen, pilot and explorer
1936 -- Maxim Gorky, novelist, short story writer, and playwright
1942 -- Arthur Pryor, trombonist and bandleader
1971 -- Paul Karrer, chemist
1982 -- John Cheever, writer
1993 -- Craig Rodwell, activist, founder of the Oscar Wilde Bookshop
2007 -- Hank Medress, singer and producer
2011 -- Clarence Clemons, saxophonist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
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