April 3 is the 93rd day of the year. There are 272 days left.
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Today's number is 3
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3 is a prime 3 is the first odd prime (but aren't they all just a little bit 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 thusly -- 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"
"Almost all" integers contain the digit 3
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Title 3 of the US Code is 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: 1860 -- The first successful Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California started, 1882 -- Robert Ford killed Jesse James 1885 -- Gottlieb Daimler received a patent for his engine - a good idea at the time 1895 -- Oscar Wilde's libel case against Queensberry began - a bad idea, but Ballad of Readng Gaol 1922 -- Stalin became General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party - a very bad idea 1948 -- Truman signed the Marshall Plan 1955 -- The ACLU announced it would defend Ginsberg's Howl - an excellent idea 1968 -- MLK Jr. delivered his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech 1981 -- The Osborne 1 was unveiled 2000 -- Microsoft was ruled to have violated US antitrust law but was not punished and no victims were recompensed 2010 -- Apple Inc. released the first iPad, foreshadowing ifrenzy to come.
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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, ...A. Ginsburg; Howl
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Born this day in:
1639 -- Alessandro Stradella, composer 1778 -- Pierre Bretonneau, doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy 1783 -- Washington Irving, writer 1791 -- Anne Lister, diarist, mountaineer, and traveller, "the first modern lesbian". 1807 -- Mary Carpenter, educational and social reformer 1822 -- Edward Everett Hale, writer and preacher 1823 -- Boss Tweed, typical politician 1885 -- Bud Fisher, cartoonist, think Mutt & Jeff 1886 -- Dooley Wilson, actor and singer 1895 -- Zez Confrey, pianist and composer 1898 -- Henry Luce, publisher, co-founded Time Magazine 1904 -- Russel Wright, dinnerware and furniture designer 1916 -- Herb Caen, writer, the Sakamenna Kid 1919 -- Ervin Drake, songwriter and composer, it was a very good year 1924 -- Marlon Brando who couldda been a contender 1924 -- Roza Shanina, Russian sniper 1936 -- Jimmy McGriff, organist and bandleader 1936 -- Harold Vick, saxophonist and flautist 1938 -- Jeff Barry, songwriter 1941 -- Jan Berry, singer and songwriter, (Jan & Dean) inspiration and mentor of the Beach Boys 1942 -- Billy Joe Royal, guitarist, singer, songwriter and boondocker 1943 -- Richard Manuel, pianist, singer, songwriter and bandmember 1944 -- Tony Orlando, Captain Kangaroo look-alike 1946 -- Dee Murray, bassist, mostly with Elton 1949 -- Richard Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1951 -- Mitch Woods, singer, songwriter and pianist
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Died this day in:
CE 33 -- Jesus of Nazareth, or some other date, or year, but wait, he didn't die anyway, did he? What? 1882 -- Jesse James, criminal and outlaw, sometimes folk hero 1897 -- Johannes Brahms, pianist and composer 1901 -- Richard D'Oyly Carte 1902 -- Esther Hobart Morris, lawyer and judge 1950 -- Kurt Weill, composer and pianist 1950 -- Carter G. Woodson, historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month 1978 -- Ray Noble, bandleader, composer, and actor 1990 -- Sarah Vaughan, singer 1991 -- Graham Greene, writer 1998 -- Mary Cartwright, mathematician of chaos 2014 -- Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, guitarist, fiddler, and composer 2015 -- Bob Burns, drummer and songwriter
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: I'm inventing Howl Day, so there.
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So, for music Alessandro Stradella Dooley Wilson Zez Confrey Ervin Drake Jimmy McGriff Harold Vick Jeff Barry Jan Berry Billy Joe Royal Richard Manuel Tony Orlando Dee Murray Richard Thompson Mitch Woods Johannes Brahms Richard D'Oyly Carte Kurt Weill Ray Noble Sarah Vaughan Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith Bob Burns-
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Alessandro Stradella
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Dooley Wilson
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Zez Confrey
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Ervin Drake
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Jimmy McGriff
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Harold Vick
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Jeff Barry & his wife Ellie Greenwich wrote a ton of hits, such as
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Jan Berry
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Billy Joe Royal
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Richard Manuel
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Tony Orlando
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Dee Murray
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Richard Thompson
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Mitch Woods
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Johannes Brahms
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Richard D'Oyly Carte put together an opera company and brought together Mssrs Gilbert & Sullivan
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Kurt Weill (hiya Mimi)
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Ray Noble
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Sarah Vaughan
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Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
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Bob Burns
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OK, what's on your minds?
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