March 20, 2017 Open Thread; Spring Equinox, Ostara, Mabon

March 20 is the 79th day of the year. There are 286 days left.

Today's number is 20

An icosahedron has 20 faces A dodecahedron has 20 vertices. 20 is the atomic number of calcium. "what's your 20?" = "10-20" = "where are you?" 20 is one meaning of "a score" A 20 is a Jackson until 2020 when it will be a Tubman 20 is an android app, - some sort of game 20 is 2 times 10, the bases of two very widely used number systems Base 20 number systems are known as "Vigesimal", which brings us to the fact that The Maya used a Vigesimal number system 20 is an impossible perfect score in France

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Title 20 of the US Code is EDUCATION.

20 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Appuleius and Nerva Parthia and Rome entered into a peace treaty.

20 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Marcus Valerius Messalla Barbatus and Cotta Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso committed suicide rather than face trial for the murder of Germanicus

On this day in: 1815 -- Napoleon Bonaparte's "Hundred Days" rule began. 1852 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin was published 1883 -- The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed 1915 -- Einstein's general theory of relativity was published. 1923 -- Pablo Picasso's first US showing took place 1933 -- Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau 1942 -- MacArthur promised to return to Bataan 1952 -- The US Senate ratified a peace treaty with Japan 1956 -- Tunisia gained its freedom from France 1985 -- Libby Riddles was the first woman to win the Iditarod 1987 -- The FDA approved AZT to fight AIDS 1995 -- The Aum Shinrikyo cult staged a sarin gas attack 2003 -- The coalition of the witless invaded Iraq on false pretences

Born this day in:

43 BCE -- Ovid, poet 1612 -- Anne Bradstreet, Puritan poet, first woman published in England's American colonies 1811 -- George Caleb Bingham, luminist painter 1821 -- Ned Buntline, journalist, author, publisher, and know-nothing leader 1828 -- Henrik Ibsen, poet, playwright, and director 1840 -- Illarion Pryanishnikov, painter 1856 -- John Lavery, painter 1884 -- Philipp Frank, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member, Philosophy of Science 1890 -- Beniamino Gigli, tenor and actor 1904 -- B. F. Skinner, psychologist and author, pigeon fancier 1906 -- Ozzie Nelson, actor and bandleader 1915 -- Sister Rosetta Tharpe, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1917 -- Vera Lynn, singer 1918 -- Marian McPartland, pianist and composer, Jazz Master, founded Halcyon Records 1922 -- Larry Elgart, saxophonist and bandleader 1925 -- John Ehrlichman, lawyer, criminal, Nixonian scumbag 1928 -- James P. Gordon, physicist and engineer, designed & built first maser. 1928 -- Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers. 1934 -- Willie Brown, lawyer, and politician 1936 -- Harold Mabern, jazz pianist and composer 1937 -- Jerry Reed, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor 1939 -- Don Edwards, guitarist, singer, and songwriter 1939 -- Walter Jakob Gehring, biologist and academic 1948 -- Nikos Papazoglou, singer and songwriter, formed band named oblique order 1950 -- Carl Palmer, drummer and songwriter 1955 -- Ian Moss, guitarist, singer, & songwriter

Died this day in:

1726 -- Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher 1964 -- Brendan Behan, Irish republican, poet, novelist, short story author and playwright

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Ostara (Northern Hemishpere) Mabon (Southern Hemishpere) Vernal Equinox Great American Meatout (United States) Extraterrestrial Abduction Day International Astrology Day New Year (Thelema) Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)

That does it, 2, count them, 2 Thelemic Holidays. This calls for

So, for music Beniamino Gigli Ozzie Nelson Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vera Lynn Marian McPartland Larry Elgart Harold Mabern Jerry Reed Don Edwards Nikos Papazoglou Carl Palmer Ian Moss

Beniamino Gigli

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Ozzie Nelson

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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Vera Lynn

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Marian McPartland

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Larry Elgart

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