April 24, 2017 Open Thread; International Sculpture Day

April 24 is the 114th day of the year. There are 251 days left.

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Today's number is 24

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24 is 2 (a prime) x 12 (a great number system base) as well as 4 factorial 24 is the sum of two primes, 11 & 13 24 is the number of ways that 4 different things can be ordered Ten to the 24 of anything is a yotta (rhymes with lotta) A tesseract (hypercube) has 24 square faces The product of any 4 consecutive numbers is divisible by 24 24 is chromium There are 24 major & minor keys in western tonal music 24 carat gold is 100% pure (and seriously malleable) There are 24 hours in a day (by convention)

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Title 24 of the US Code is HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS.

24 BCE was the Consulship of Augustus and Flaccus   Tenth consulship for Augustus, ho hum.

24 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Cethegus and Varro   King Yuri of Silla became such Namhae, king of Silla, died Strabo died

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On this day in: 1479 BCE -- Thutmose III took the throne of Egypt and Hatshepsut took control 1184 BCE -- The fall of Troy. 1800 -- The US Library of Congress was established by law 1877 -- Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire. got it? 1877! 1895 -- Joshua Slocum sailed from boston in the Spray 1914 -- The Franck--Hertz experiment was presented to the German Physical Society 1915 -- The arrest of 250 Armenians in Istanbul started the Armenian Genocide. 1916 -- The Easter Rising (Ireland) 1923 -- Sigmund Freud published The Ego and the Id 1932 -- The mass trespass of Kinder Scout 1933 -- Nazi Germany started persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses 1957 -- The Suez Canal was reopened 1990 -- The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 1996 -- The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was signed into law by Bill Clinton 2004 -- The US lifted sanctions imposed on Libya in '86 in order to gull them into complacency

Happy Easter Britannia

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Born this day in:

1743 -- Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom 1815 -- Anthony Trollope, author 1878 -- Jean Crotti, painter 1880 -- Gideon Sundback, developer of the zipper 1880 -- Josef Muller, entomologist 1903 -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, fascist, founded the Falange, merged by Franco with the Carlists 1904 -- Willem de Kooning, painter 1905 -- Robert Penn Warren, writer 1931 -- Bridget Riley, painter (Op Art) 1937 -- Joe Henderson, composer and soxophonist 1940 -- Sue Grafton, A is for author, W is for writer 1941 -- John Williams, composer and guitarist 1942 -- Richard M. Daley, some sort of Capo in Chitown 1942 -- Barbra Streisand, singer and actress 1944 -- Bernard St. Clair Lee, singer 1944 -- Tony Visconti, record producer 1945 -- Doug Clifford, drummer and songwriter 1948 -- David Ingram, songwriter and keyboards player 1963 -- Paula Frazer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter 1963 -- Billy Gould, bassist and songwriter 1966 -- David Usher, activist, singer and songwriter 1982 -- Kelly Clarkson, American Idol

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Died this day in:

1731 -- Daniel Defoe, author and spook 1947 -- Willa Cather, author and poet 1970 -- Otis Spann, pianist and singer 1974 -- Bud Abbott, Lou's bud. 1975 -- Pete Ham, guitarist, singer and songwriter 1997 -- Pat Paulsen, probably the best presidential candidate we've ever had 2008 -- Jimmy Giuffre, played clarinet and sax

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:                                           International Sculpture Day Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia) Fashion Revolution Day

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So, for music Joe Henderson John Williams Barbra Streisand Bernard St. Clair Lee Tony Visconti Doug Clifford David Ingram Paula Frazer Billy Gould David Usher Kelly Clarkson Otis Spann Pete Ham Jimmy Giuffre

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Joe Henderson

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John Williams

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Barbra Streisand

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Bernard St. Clair Lee

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Tony Visconti

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Doug Clifford

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David Ingram

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Paula Frazer

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Billy Gould

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David Usher

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Kelly Clarkson

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Otis Spann

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Pete Ham

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Jimmy Giuffre

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OK, what's on your minds?

Bonus:

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