November 28, 2016 Open Thread; Hawaiian Independence Day

November 28 is the 332th day of the year. There are 33 days left.

Today's number is 28

28 is 4 x 7 (more later) 28 is the sum of the first (7) natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28

28 is also the sum of the first (5) non-primes. 1+4+6+8+9 = 28

28 is also the sum of the first (5) primes. 2+3+5+7+11 = 28 28 is the only known number that can can be expressed as all 3 of the above sums. For example 36 is also the sum of the first natural numbers (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8), but not a sum of first primes or first non-primes. 10 is the sum of the first primes (2+3+5) and natural numbers (1+2+3+4) but not the first non-primes (1+4+6). 28 is the atomic mass of Silicon 28 is the atomic number of Nickel 28 is the number of days in the average human menstrual cycle. 28 is the number of days in February in a normal year

28 is the number of dominoes in a standard domino set

28 is the number of grams in an ounce

Holy Shit, Batman, 28 is 4 x 7! Accordingly, x/28, whenever x = 4n, is the same as n/7 which gets us back to the freaky repeating decimal (0.142857) discussed on the 7th, the 14th and the 21st. 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, as does n/21, and n/28 which is, for example ...

1/28 = 0.0357142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely

2/28 = 1/14 = 0.07142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely

3/28 = 0.107142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely

4/28 = 1/7 = 0.142857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely

5/28 = 0.17857142857 & repeat 142857 indefinitely

Title 28 of the US Code is JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE Study it well, young grasshopper.

28 BCE was the Year of the First Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa The earliest dated record of a sunspot by Chinese astronomers was on May 10, 28.

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

On this day in: 1520 -- Ferdinand Magellan's micro-fleet became the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 1660 -- Twelve Britons founded the Royal Society. 1811 -- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered. 1814 -- The Times (in London) became the first newspaper printed by automatic, steam-powered presses. 1821 -- Panama split from Spain and joined Gran Colombia. 1843 -- Hawaiian Independence Day; recognized by both the UK & France as an independent nation. Heh. 1893 -- New Zealand let women vote in a national election, becoming the first country to do so. 1909 -- Sergei Rachmaninoff debuted his Piano Concerto No. 3 1919 -- Lady Astor was elected to bew the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. 1958 -- Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon became autonomous republics. 1960 -- Mauritania becomes independent of France. 1967 -- The first pulsar was discovered 1971 -- Fred Quilt, a Tsilhqot'in First Nation leader suffered fatal abdominal injuries at the hands of the RCMP. 1972 -- Last Tango executions in Paris were carried out by guillotine 1989 -- The Czech Velvet Revolution

1991 -- South Ossetia declared independence from Georgia.

Born this day in: 1628 -- John Bunyan, English preacher, theologian, and author 1681 -- Jean Cavalier, Camisard (Huguenot) rebel leader 1757 -- William Blake, poet and painter, not much of a speller 1820 -- Friedrich Engels, philosopher, economist, and journalist 1866 -- Henry Bacon, architect, designed the Lincoln Memorial 1881 -- Stefan Zweig, author, playwright, and journalist 1895 -- Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor 1904 -- Nancy Mitford, journalist and author 1908 -- Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist 1910 -- Elsie Quarterman, ecologist and academic 1929 -- Berry Gordy, Jr., songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records 1932 -- Gato Barbieri, saxophonist and composer 1936 -- Celin Romero, guitarist 1943 -- Randy Newman, singer, songwriter and pianist who disliked short people 1944 -- Rita Mae Brown, author, poet, and screenwriter 1944 -- R. B. Greaves, singer & songwriter

1948 -- Dick Morris, political consultant, journalist, and author, pushed traingulation & 3rd way assholery

1949 -- Paul Shaffer, singer, keyboard player, and bandleader, Letterman foil

1950 -- Russell Alan Hulse, physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate

1962 -- Jon Stewart, comedian, actor, and television host

Died this day in: 1680 -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini, sculptor and painter 1680 -- Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, painter and architect 1694 -- Matsuo Basho�, Japanese poet and scholar, wrote awesome haiku 1794 -- Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, general, instrumental in creating Continental Army 1859 -- Washington Irving, short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, pumpkin head 1870 -- Frederic Bazille, soldier and impressionist painter 1872 -- Mary Somerville, astronomer, mathematician, and author; first female appointed to Royal Astronomical Society

1939 -- James Naismith, physician and educator, credited with inventing basketball

1954 -- Enrico Fermi, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

1960 -- Richard Wright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

1994 -- Jerry Rubin, Yippie founder turned stockbroker, businessman and capitalist sell-out

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

Panamanian Independence Day

So, for music Beethoven Rachmaninoff Jose Iturbi Barry Gordy Gato Barbieri Celin Romero

Randy Newman

R. B. Greaves

Paul Shaffer

Beethoven

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