November 21, 2016 Open Thread; National Adoption Day in the US

November 21 is the 325th day of the year. There are 40 days left. 

Today's number is 21

21 is the product of 2 primes, 7 and 3

21 is the sum of the first 6 natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21

21 is a fibonnacci number 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21

21st Amendment ended prohibition

21 is Scandium 21 is the total of the spots on one 6 sided die (see: sum of the first 6 natural numbers, duh)

In several countries 21 is the legal age of majority.

In all US states 21 is the legal drinking age. In some countries 21 is the voting age.

The highest-winning point total in Blackjack is 21

There are 21 shillings in a guinea.

OK, 21 is 3 x 7. Accordingly, x/21, whenever x =3n, is the same as n/7 which gets us back to the freaky repeating decimal (0.142857) discussed on the 7th and the 14th. The decimal part of n/7 where n is a natural number not a multiple of 999,999 or 7 is the remainder x 0.142857 repeated on out to infinity. n/14 has similar rules, and now we get to n/21, which is, for example ...

1/21 = 0.047619047619 repeat == (1/7)/3

2/21 = 0.095238095238 repeat == (2/7)/3

3/21 = 0.142857142857 repeat == (3/7)/3 == 1/7, Bingo!

4/21 = 0.190476 repeat == (4/7)/3 etc.

Title 21 of the US Code is FOOD AND DRUGS

21 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lollius and Lepidus  

21 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar

  King Daeso of Dongbuyeo died in battle

Arminius, who whupped that Damned Varus at the battle of Teutoburger Wald, died

The Empress Wang died

On this day in:

0164 BC -- Judas Maccabeus, restored the Temple in Jerusalem. Celebrated annually by the festival of Hanukkah.

1386 -- Timur of Samarkand sacked Tbilisi

1877 -- Thomas Edison announced the creation of the phonograph

1894 -- The Japanese captured Port Arthur. The lessons to be learned weren't until during WWI.

1905 -- Albert Einstein's paper on the relationship between energy content and inertia was published.

1910 -- Brazilian Sailors rebelled (The Revolt of the Lash).

1918 -- The Lwow pogrom took place.

1920 -- "Bloody Sunday" in Dublin.

1922 -- Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first female US Senator

1927 -- Striking coal miners were slaughtered with machine guns by state police in the Columbine Mine massacre.

1953 -- The "Piltdown Man" skull was revealed to be a hoax.

1964 -- The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened. (Giovanni da Verrazzano beat Hudson and all those folks, but  ...)

1969 -- The first permanent ARPANET link was set up between UCLA and SRI

1983 -- The US criminal war against Grenada ended.

1986 -- Oliver North fired up the shredder

2002 -- NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to join & help restart the cold war.

2013 -- The Euromaidan began in Ukraine.

Born this day in:

1694 -- Voltaire, historian, playwright, and philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great.

1852 -- Francisco Tarrega, guitarist and composer

1861 -- Tom Horn, police officer and murderer, not a prototype, but an exemplar for sure.

1902 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1904 -- Coleman Hawkins, saxophonist and clarinet player

1940 -- Dr. John, singer, songwriter and pianist; gris-gris man as well

1948 -- Lonnie Jordan,  singer, songwriter, keyboardist and guitarist (War)

1965 -- Bjork, bjork

Died this day in:

1695 -- Henry Purcell, organist and composer

1899 -- Garret Hobart, lawyer and politician, 24th Vice President of the US, heh, who knew

1945 -- Robert Benchley, humorist, newspaper columnist, and actor

1953 -- Larry Shields, clarinet player and composer (Original Dixieland Jass Band)

1970 -- C. V. Raman, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, you know, Raman effect, Raman scattering

1986 -- Jerry Colonna, singer, songwriter, comedian, trombonist and actor; ya gotta be kidding

1999 -- Quentin Crisp, actor, author, and illustrator

2002 -- Hadda Brooks, singer, songwriter and pianist

2006 -- Robert Lockwood, Jr., guitarist

2010 -- Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, painter and author, co-founded the DuSable Museum of African American History

2011 -- Anne McCaffrey, author, dragon rider

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:

National Adoption Day (US)

World Television Day    

 So go adopt a TV      

So, for music Francisco Tarrega Coleman Hawkins Doctor John Lonnie Jordan Bjork Henry Purcell Leopold Godowsky

Larry Shields

Jerry Colonna

Hadda Brooks

Robert Lockwood, Jr.

Francisco Tarrega

Coleman Hawkins

Doctor John

Lonnie Jordan

Bjork

Henry Purcell

Leopold Godowsky

Larry Shields

Jerry Colonna

Hadda Brooks

Robert Lockwood, Jr.

OK, what's on your minds?                                                                                        

Just for grins:   (This ought to eat up the whole morning )

Crossposted from caucus99percent.com

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