April 24 is the 114th day of the year. There are 251 days left.
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Today's number is 24
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24 is 2 (a prime) x 12 (a great number system base) as well as 4 factorial
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)
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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
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On this day in:
1479 BCE -- Thutmose III took the throne of Egypt and Hatshepsut took control
1184 BCE -- The fall of Troy.
1800 -- The US Library of Congress was established by law
1877 -- Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire. got it? 1877!
1895 -- Joshua Slocum sailed from boston in the Spray
1914 -- The Franck--Hertz experiment was presented to the German Physical Society
1915 -- The arrest of 250 Armenians in Istanbul started the Armenian Genocide.
1916 -- The Easter Rising (Ireland)
1923 -- Sigmund Freud published The Ego and the Id
1932 -- The mass trespass of Kinder Scout
1933 -- Nazi Germany started persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses
1957 -- The Suez Canal was reopened
1990 -- The Hubble Space Telescope was launched
1996 -- The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was signed into law by Bill Clinton
2004 -- The US lifted sanctions imposed on Libya in '86 in order to gull them into complacency
Happy Easter Britannia
Born this day in:
1743 -- Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom
1815 -- Anthony Trollope, author
1878 -- Jean Crotti, painter
1880 -- Gideon Sundback, developer of the zipper
1880 -- Josef Muller, entomologist
1903 -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, fascist, founded the Falange, merged by Franco with the Carlists
1904 -- Willem de Kooning, painter
1905 -- Robert Penn Warren, writer
1931 -- Bridget Riley, painter (Op Art)
1937 -- Joe Henderson, composer and soxophonist
1940 -- Sue Grafton, A is for author, W is for writer
1941 -- John Williams, composer and guitarist
1942 -- Richard M. Daley, some sort of Capo in Chitown
1942 -- Barbra Streisand, singer and actress
1944 -- Bernard St. Clair Lee, singer
1944 -- Tony Visconti, record producer
1945 -- Doug Clifford, drummer and songwriter
1948 -- David Ingram, songwriter and keyboards player
1963 -- Paula Frazer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1963 -- Billy Gould, bassist and songwriter
1966 -- David Usher, activist, singer and songwriter
1982 -- Kelly Clarkson, American Idol
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Died this day in:
1731 -- Daniel Defoe, author and spook
1947 -- Willa Cather, author and poet
1970 -- Otis Spann, pianist and singer
1974 -- Bud Abbott, Lou's bud.
1975 -- Pete Ham, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1997 -- Pat Paulsen, probably the best presidential candidate we've ever had
2008 -- Jimmy Giuffre, played clarinet and sax
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
International Sculpture Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Fashion Revolution Day
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So, for music
Joe Henderson
John Williams
Barbra Streisand
Bernard St. Clair Lee
Tony Visconti
Doug Clifford
David Ingram
Paula Frazer
Billy Gould
David Usher
Kelly Clarkson
Otis Spann
Pete Ham
Jimmy Giuffre
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Joe Henderson
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John Williams
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Barbra Streisand
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Bernard St. Clair Lee
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Tony Visconti
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Doug Clifford
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David Ingram
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Paula Frazer
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Billy Gould
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David Usher
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Kelly Clarkson
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Otis Spann
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Pete Ham
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Jimmy Giuffre
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OK, what's on your minds?
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Crossposted from http://caucus99percent.com