February 26 is the 57th day of the year, there are 308 days left
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Today's number is 26
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Uh, 2 x 13, both primes
26 is Iron
26 is "breakfast" a notorious darts score where an attempted score of 180 (3 x triple 20) is misthrown as 1 + 20 + 5
There are 26 letters in the English Alphabet, making a string of letters a stronger password than a string of numbers
Switzerland has 26 cantons
The island of Santa Catalina is only 22 miles from the California mainland no matter what you may have heard on the radio.
Title 26 of the US Code is The Internal Revenue Code
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26 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Taurus
About time that somebody called bull on Augustus
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26 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Sabinus
Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea.
Tiberius retired to Capri
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On this day in:
1616 -- Galileo was banned from teaching or defending heliocentrism by the Roman Catholic Church **
1919 -- Woodrow Wilson establised the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 -- Calvin Coolidge established the Grand Teton National Park
1935 -- Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to be re-formed
1935 -- Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated radar's possibility
1971 -- U Thant signed a UN proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1987 -- The Tower Commission rebuked Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. ***
1993 -- 1993 World Trade Center bombing (you know, the truck bomb)
1995 -- Barings Bank collapsed after a broker lost $1.4 billion gambling on futures. This in no way discouraged Clinton from passing laws (plural)designed to encourage US banks to engage in such gambling
** It is heretical for anyone to think for themselves, let alone encourage others to do so.
*** Something nobody since has ever done either
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Born this day in:
1564 -- Christopher Marlowe, playwright "This is hell nor am I out of it"
1715 -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, heretical philosopher
1802 -- Victor Hugo, author, poet, and playwright
1842 -- Camille Flammarion, astronomer and author
1846 -- Buffalo Bill, showman
1893 -- Dorothy Whipple, author
1918 -- Theodore Sturgeon, author
1921 -- Betty Hutton, actress and singer
1928 -- Fats Domino, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1932 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1943 -- Paul Cotton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (poco)
1943 -- Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer, songwriter, and musician
1945 -- Mitch Ryder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 -- Sandie Shaw, singer and shrink
1950 -- Jonathan Cain, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player (journey)
1958 -- Susan Helms, general, engineer, and astronaut
1979 -- Corinne Bailey Rae, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
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Died this day in:
1548 -- Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin
1903 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, gencidal massacre enabler, invented the Gatling gun
1969 -- Karl Jaspers, shrink and philosopher
1989 -- Roy Eldridge, trumpet player
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Roll your own
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So, for music,
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Galileo
Barings Bank
Fats Domino
Johnny Cash
Paul Cotton
Bob Hite
Mitch Ryder
Jonathan Cain
Roy Eldridge
Today's Sermon
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picture is Galileo by William Storage
It's an open thread, so do your thing
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