September 26, 2016 Open Thread, I spy with my little eye Anthony Blunt

September 26 is the 269th day of the year. There are 96 days left.

Today's number is 26

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 ae 26 letters in the English Alphabet, making a string of letters a stronger password than a string or numbers Switzerland has 26 cantons

Title 26 of the US Code is the Internal Revenue Code

26 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Taurus

26 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Sabinus Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea. Tiberius retired to Capri

On this day in: 1493 -- Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem giving the new world & more to Spain 1580 -- Sir Francis Drake completed a circumnavigation of the planet 1777 -- The Brits occupied Philadelphia looking for cheesesteak. 1914 -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was created 1934 -- They launched the Queen Mary 1960 -- The first TV debate between Tricky Dick and JFK took place. 1969 -- The Beatles released Abbey Road 1973 -- The Concorde made its first non-stop flight across the Atlantic 1983 -- Stanislav Petrov decided that a reported incoming nuclear missile was a computer error, not a US attack 1984 -- The United Kingdom agreed to cede Hong Kong to China. 2008 -- Yves Rossy flew a jet powered "wingpack" across the English Channel.

Born this day in: 1750 -- Cuthbert Collingwood, an admiral - look him up sometime if he is unknown to you 1774 -- Johnny Appleseed, yeah, really. 1849 -- Ivan Pavlov, bell ringer 1888 -- J. Frank Dobie, journalist, author, and liberal Texan 1888 -- T. S. Eliot, poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate, eater of peaches 1889 -- Martin Heidegger, philosopher and academic, Dasein 1891 -- Hans Reichenbach, philosopher (Vienna Circle, logical empiricist), commie 1898 -- George Gershwin, pianist and composer 1907 -- Anthony Blunt, art historian and rooskie spy 1925 -- Marty Robbins, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1945 -- Bryan Ferry, singer & songwriter 1946 -- Andrea Dworkin, "radical feminist" activist and author 1947 -- Lynn Anderson, never promised anybody a rose garden 1948 -- Olivia Newton-John, singer, songwriter and actress 1949 -- Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and journalis 1951 -- Stuart Tosh, singer, songwriter and drummer 1955 -- Carlene Carter, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1964 -- John Tempesta, drummer 1965 -- Cindy Herron, singer 1966 -- Dean Butterworth, drummer 1967 -- Shannon Hoon, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in: 1820 -- Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer, allegedly had a farm 1868 -- August Ferdinand Mobius, mathematician and astronomer; also had a band 1902 -- Levi Strauss, businessman 1904 -- Lafcadio Hearn, author and academic 1937 -- Bessie Smith, singer and actress 1945 -- Bela Bartok, pianist and composer 1946 -- William Strunk, Jr., stylish author and educator 1947 -- Hugh Lofting, author and poet who did little 1952 -- George Santayana, philosopher, novelist, and poet noted for remembering the past 1991 -- Billy Vaughn, singer and bandleader 1998 -- Betty Carter, singe 2000 -- Baden Powell de Aquino, guitarist and composer 2003 -- Robert Palmer, singer & songwriter

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Meh, try The Feast of Cosmas and Damian, it is as good as any.

So, for music we gots:

Abbey Road George Gershwin Marty Robbins Bryan Ferry Lynn Anderson Olivia Newton-John Wendy Saddington Stuart Tosh Carlene Carter John Tempesta Cindy Herron Dean Butterworth Shannon Hoon Bessie Smith Bela Bartok Billy Vaughn Betty Carter Baden Powell de Aquino Robert emerson-lake-and Palmer

Abbey Road

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George Gershwin

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Marty Robbins

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Bryan Ferry