November 7, 2016 Open Thread; October Revolution Day

November 7 is the 311th day of the year. There are 54 days left.  11-7 is 7-11 backwards, go spill a Slurpee into the slurpifier machine

Today's number is 7

7 is a prime (the 4th prime)

999,999/7 = 142,857. Any fraction consisting of an integer divided by 7 will have a repeating decimal consisting of those digits in that order starting at a different, determinable digit unless the numerator is an even multiple of 999,999 or 7. For example, 1/7 = 0.142857142857..., 2/7 = 0.285714285714..., 3/7 = 0.42857142857.... 

The short-cut is to multiply 0.142857 by the remainder of the long division, and then repeat that decimal component. Thus, the fractional part of 11/7 is 4/7 = 4 x 0.148257 repeated, generating 0.571428571428571428 etc.

This arithmetic oddity was something of a pain for accountants in days of yore because the shortest depreciable life to generate the maximum investment tax credit was 7 years. As a result, 7 was a very popular useful life and the computation of 150% and 200% declining balance depreciation would involve using a rate of either 1.5 x 1/7 or 2 x 1/7.

7 is the most likely result from rolling 2 regular 6 sided dice.

7 is a come out win in craps

7 is neutral pH

7 is Nitrogen

Old No. 7 is

There are 7 days in a week, 7 colors in the rainbow, 7 seas, 7 continents, 7 Wonders of the ancient world, 7 Dwarves, Rome's 7 hills, the Plieades, and

There were Seven Samurai

and therefore

And the magnificent Lotus 7 & super 7.

Seven is and has been a magik and magikal number in many of cultures and religions. I'm just going to take a pass on all of it.

The sole exception is that the Seventh Son is present throughout the US blues and folk genres.

Title 7 of the US Code is AGRICULTURE

7 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Nero and Piso    Emperor Cheng of Han and his royal consort Zhao Hede died

7 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Metellus and Nerva  Caesar Augustus was emperor and appointed Publius Quinctilius Varus (yep, that Varus) governor of Germania. Varus almost immediately created a lot of dissension among the various and sundry German tribes, just as he had pissed off the residents of Syria and Judea when stationed in those outposts. This would bite him in the ass in 9 CE at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest where some of said German tribes annihilated him and his 3 legions. The Romans did, much later, recover their 3 "Eagles", but never again had a 17th, 18th or 19th legion.

On this day in: 1665 -- The first publication of the London Gazette 1874 -- Thomas Nast represented the GOP by an elephant in a cartoon in Harper's Weekly, it stuck. 1885 -- Canada completed its first transcontinental railway 1893 -- Women won the right to vote in Colorado 1910 -- The first cargo shipment by air 1914 -- The first publication of The New Republic 1916 -- Jeannette Rankin became the first female US Congressperson. 1917 -- The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution 1919 -- The first of the Palmer Raids 1929 -- MOMA opened to the public 1940 -- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a wind storm 1944 -- FDR was elected to a fourth term 1956 -- The UN adopted a resolution calling for Israel, France and the UK to get their troops out of Egypt 1967 -- Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city (Cleveland) 1973 -- Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over Nixon's veto. It has yet to be enforced. 1989 -- Douglas Wilder became the first black governor of a US state (Virginia) 1989 -- David Dinkins became the first black mayor of NYC 1990 -- Mary Robinson became the first female President of the Republic of Ireland 2000 -- Al Gore lost the Presidential election, or didn't, as the case may be

Born this day in: 1728 -- James Cook, captain, navigator, and cartographer 1832 -- Andrew Dickson White, co-founder of Cornell 1867 -- Marie Curie, chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate 1878 -- Lise Meitner, physicist and academic who should've shared Otto Hahn's Nobel Prize 1879 -- Leon Trotsky, theorist and politician, founded Red Army, had affair with Frida Kahlo 1886 -- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player and theoretician 1888 -- C. V. Raman, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1893 -- Margaret Leech, historian and author, won a pulitzer 1913 -- Albert Camus, philosopher, journalist, absurdist and author, Nobel Prize laureate. L'etranger 1915 -- Philip Morrison, astrophysicist and academic, dirty commie 1918 -- Billy Graham, preacher 1921 -- Lisa Ben, singer, songwriter and journalist, created Vice-Versa, a seminal lesbian publicatin 1922 -- Al Hirt, trumpet player and bandleader 1926 -- Joan Sutherland, soprano 1938 -- Dee Clark, singer and songwriter 1942 -- Johnny Rivers, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1943 -- Joni Mitchell, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1949 -- David S. Ware, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

Died this day in: 1962 -- Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian and politician, 1981 -- Will Durant, historian 1994 -- Shorty Rogers, trumpet player and composer 2006 -- Johnny Sain, baseball player and coach, "Spahn & Sain & pray for rain"  

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: October Revolution Day 

So, for music we gots: Al Hirt Joan Sutherland Dee Clark Johnny Rivers Joni Mitchell Davis S Ware Shorty Rogers 7

Al Hirt

If you thank that was silly here's                                                                                      Joan Sutherland (& friends)

Dee Clark

Johnny Rivers 

Joni Mitchell

Davis S Ware

Shorty Rogers

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OK, what's on your minds?                                                                                        

Just for grins:  

Crossposted from caucus99percent.com

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