July 24 is the 205th day of the year. There are 160 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)
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)
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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:
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
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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
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Day for International Justice
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So, for music
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
Cape Canaveral
Billy Taylor
Heinz
David Miner
Jim Armstrong
Herve Vilard
John Faddis
J-Lo
Larry Hoppen
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact
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Cape Canaveral
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Billy Taylor
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Heinz
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David Miner
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Jim Armstrong
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Herve Vilard
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John Faddis
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J-Lo
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Larry Hoppen
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Bonus:
Billy Taylor --
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David Miner / The Great Society --
Crossposted from http://caucus99percent.com