October 3, 2016 Open Thread, German Unity Day

October 3 is the 276th day of the year. There are 896 days left. Remember Captain Jack! And while you're at it, Howl at something!

Today's number is 3

3 is the first odd prime (aren't they all just a little odd?) 3 is the first Fermat Prime; 3 is the first Mersenne Prime; 3 is the only prime that is both a Fermat Prime and a Mersenne Prime Simple fractions with 3 in the denominator have infinite repeats of a single digit in decimal form (including zero) The smallest polygon is the 3 sided triangle 3 points in space determine a plane 3 points in space alse determine a circle A natural number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. If a number is divisible by 3, so is its reverse, like 123 & 321 3 is lithium. 3 was Babe Ruth 3 is the number of spatial dimensions humans can perceive. Basketball has a 3 point basket and a 3 second rule. A football field goal is 3 points 3 strikes and you're out 3 outs per team per inning 3 Rs 3 Musketeers 3 Blind Mice 3 Wise Men

In The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits), the Bellman declares the rule of 3: "What i tell you three times is true." It is proven later in the Poem NOW PAY ATTENTION HERE:

"Taking Three as the subject to reason about A convenient number to state We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out By One Thousand diminished by Eight.

"The result we proceed to divide, as you see, By Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two: Then subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be Exactly and perfectly true. -- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits)

The "Rule of Thirds" is an alleged rule of composition for painting, photography and the like.

Somebody who is 3 sheets to the wind is drunk

10-3 is the police and emergency code for "stop transmitting" "Code 3" means "Emergency response; lights and siren"

Title 3 of the US Code is the The President

3 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla Seneca was born, also Servius Sulpicius Galba ( a Roman Emperor)

3 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea. Tiberius retired to Capri

On this day in: 1835 -- The Staedtler company was founded 1873 -- Captain Jack and 3 other Modoc were hanged 1912 -- General Smedley Butler's U.S. marines shelled Coyotepe Hill during our criminal occupation of Nicaragua. 1932 -- Iraq gained independence from the UK. 1942 -- A V-2 launched from Peenemunde became the first man-made artifact to reach space. 1957 -- The California State Superior Court ruled that Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was not obscene. 1963 -- A violent coup in Honduras began two decades of military rule. 1985 -- The first flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis 1990 -- The DDR was merged into the Federal Republic of Germany. 1993 -- A US attempt to kidnap officials of Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia became the Battle of Mogadishu when the intended victims and their followers had the audacity to fight back

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, ... - Allen Ginsberg: HOWL x YouTube Video

Born this day in: 1790 -- John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation from 1828 through 1866 1900 -- Thomas Wolfe, An author and academic who looked homeward in Asheville NC 1916 -- James Herriot, A veterinarian and author 1924 -- Harvey Kurtzman, A cartoonist 1925 -- Gore Vidal, An author, screenwriter, wit, and actor 1925 -- George Wein, co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival 1938 -- Eddie Cochran, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. 1941 -- Chubby Checker, singer & songwriter, somewhat twisted 1947 -- John Perry Barlow, poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist. Founding member of the EFF. 1947 -- Ben Cauley, trumpet player and songwriter, (played trumpet for Otis and the Bar Kays) 1949 -- Lindsey Buckingham, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1951 -- Keb' Mo', singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1954 -- Dennis Eckersley, baseball player and sportscaster, the Eck, almost automatic 1954 -- Al Sharpton 1954 -- Stevie Ray Vaughan, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1955 -- Allen Woody, bass player and songwrite 1962 -- Tommy Lee, singer, songwriter, drummer, and producer

Died this day in: 1838 -- Black Hawk, Sauk war leader 1873 -- Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack, leader of the Modoc rebellion 1896 -- William Morris, author, poet, textile designer, and socialist activist 1967 -- Woody Guthrie, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1969 -- Skip James, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1987 -- Jean Anouilh, playwright and screenwriter

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: Eddie Cochran Chubby Checker John Perry Barlow Ben Cauley Lindsey Buckingham Keb Mo Stevie Ray Vaughn Allen Woody Tommy Lee Woody Guthrie Skip James

Eddie Cochran

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Lindsey Buckingham

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Keb Mo

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