December 18 is the 352nd day of the year, there are 13 days left
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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
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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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18 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar The hare & the bull; WTF?
The Roman poet Ovid died
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On this day in:
1271 – Kublai Khan renamed his empire "Yuan" starting the Yuan dynasty
1777 – The first national Thanksgiving in the US.
1865 – US Secretary of State Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment
1892 – The First performance of The Nutcracker
1916 – The end of the Battle of Verdun
1917 – Congress passed the resolution that would become the 18th Amendment (prohibition)
1958 – The world's first communications satellite was launched. Communication didn't improve.
1972 – Nixon announced that the US would start bombing North Vietnam over Christmas.
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Born this day in:
1800 – James Watney, brewer, patron saint of pub darts players
1847 – Augusta Holmes, pianist and composer
1849 – Henrietta Edwards, women's rights activist and author, one of "Famous 5"
1856 – J. J. Thomson, electrifying physicist
1860 – Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer
1870 – Saki, short story writer
1879 – Paul Klee, painter
1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, invented FM radio
1897 – Fletcher Henderson, pianist and composer
1907 – Lawrence Lucie, jazz guitarist
1917 – Ossie Davis, actor and activist
1927 – Ramsey Clark, lawyer and politician
1928 – Harold Land, tenor saxophonist
1938 – Chas Chandler, bass player
1938 – Joel Hirschhorn, songwriter and composer
1939 – Michael Moorcock, author and songwriter
1941 – Sam Andrew, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet player and composer
1943 – Bobby Keys, saxophonist
1943 – Keith Richards, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and role model
1944 – Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet player
1946 – Steve Biko, activist, murdered by South African security officers
1948 – Bill Nelson, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Laurent Voulzy, ditto
1950 – Randy Castillo, drummer
1952 – John Leventhal, songwriter and producer
1953 – Elliot Easton, guitarist and singer
1963 – Norman Brown, singer and guitarist
1968 - Alejandro Sanz, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1975 - Randy Houser, singer,songwriter, and guitarist wrote honky-tonk badonkadonk
1980 - Christina Aguilera, singer and songwriter
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Died this day in:
1737 - Antonio Stradivari, instrument maker
1829 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, biologist
1848 - Bernard Bolzano, priest, logician, mathematician and philosopher
1869 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer
1961 - Leo Reisman, violinist and bandleader
1977 - Louis Untermeyer, poet, anthologist and critic
1987 - Conny Plank, keyboards
1990 - Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer
2016 - Zsa Zsa, one of the Gabor sisters
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
International Migrants Day
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So, for music,
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Kublai Khan
Tchaikovsky 's Nutcracker Suite
18th Amendment
1st communications satellite
Nixon's Christmas Bombing Campaign
Augusta Holmes
Edward MacDowell
Fletcher Henderson
Lawrence Lucie
Harold Land
Chas Chandler
Joel Hirschhorn
Michael Moorcock - really
Sam Andrew
Wadada Leo Smith
Bobby Keys
Keith Richards
Crispian Steele-Perkins
Steve Biko
Bill Nelson
Laurent Voulzy
Randy Castillo
John Leventhal
Elliot Easton
Norman Brown
Alejandro Sanz
Leo Reisman
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Bonus:
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Sam Andrew et. al.
Keith Richards et. al.
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picture is P1030411 taken 11/25/2012 (Shasta)
Crossposted from http://caucus99percent.com