May 29, 2017 Open Thread; World Digestive Health Day

May 29 is the 149nd day of the year. There are 216 days left.

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Today's number is 29

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Today's number is Twenty-Nine

29 is a prime 29 is copper 29 is a song by Steve Earle 29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert 29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29 I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however. Route 29 connects Maryland to Florida. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however.

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Title 29 of the US Code is LABOR.

29 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius   Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil started the Aeneid

29 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus

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On this day in:

1453 -- Fall of Constantinople and end of the Byzantine Empire. 1660 -- Charles II was restored to the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland 1733 -- The right of Canadians to enslave Native Americans was upheld 1790 -- Rhode Island became the 13th state of the US 1798 -- Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen were massacred by the British Army 1852 -- Jenny Lind left the US to return to Britain 1864 -- Emperor Maximilian I arrived in Mexico 1867 -- The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 created the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1886 -- The first advertisement for Coca-Cola was placed 1913 -- Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered 1918 -- Armenia defeated the Ottoman Army at Sardarabad 1919 -- Einstein's theory of general relativity was tested by Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin. 1932 -- The Bonus Army began to assemble in DC 1953 -- Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summited Everest 1973 -- Tom Bradley was elected the first black mayor of L.A. without deflating any footballs 1990 -- The Russian parliament elected Yeltsin President 1999 -- The Discovery successfully docked with the ISS

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Born this day in:

1630 -- Charles II of England  (freaky, see above at 1660) 1736 -- Patrick Henry, politician 1823 -- John H. Balsley, inventor of the safety step-ladder 1860 -- Isaac Albeniz, pianist and composer 1874 -- G. K. Chesterton, writer, father Brown's dad. 1880 -- Oswald Spengler, historian and philopopher 1893 -- Max Brand, author 1906 -- T. H. White, writer 1914 -- Tenzing Norgay, who summited Everest on his 39th birthday in 1953 1917 -- John F. Kennedy, politician 1929 -- Peter Higgs, physicist, the boson dude. 1932 -- Paul R. Ehrlich, biologist and writer 1945 -- Gary Brooker, singer, songwriter, pianist, founding member of Procul Harum 1945 -- Catherine Lara, violinist, composer and singer 1947 -- Joey Levine, singer, songwriter, producer & jingle writer 1949 -- Francis Rossi, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1953 -- Danny Elfman, singer, songwriter, producer and actor (Oingo Boingo) 1955 -- Mike Porcaro, bassist 1956 -- La Toya Jackson, singer, songwriter, actress 1959 -- Steve Hanley, bassist 1961 -- Melissa Etheridge, singer, songwriter, activist and guitarist 1961 -- John Miceli, drummer 1963 -- Blaze Bayley, singer and songwriter 1967 -- Noel Gallagher, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1969 -- Chan Kinchla, guitarist (Blues Treveler)

As to Spengler -- Quoting Wikipedia

He predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre - death emergency whose countering would necessitate Caesarism (extraconstitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of the central government).

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Died this day in:

1453 -- Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor who went down with his empire 1500 -- Bartolomeu Dias, explorer 1691 -- Cornelis Tromp, an admiral of renown 1829 -- Humphry Davy, chemist 1847 -- Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, overpursued von Thielmann and Bonaparte fell. 1866 -- Winfield Scott, committer of great wrongs against the Cherokee and others 1892 -- Bahaullah, founder of Bahai religions 1911 -- W. S. Gilbert, Sullivan's partner 1953 -- Morgan Russell, painter 1998 -- Barry Goldwater, politician 2012 -- Doc Watson, singer, songwriter, legend, and guitarist 2014 -- Walter Jakob Gehring, biologist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:                                           Ascension of Bahaullah Oak Apple Day (England), celebrates the end of Roundhead rule. World Digestive Health Day

Memorial Day (US)

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So, for music

29 Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Isaac Albeniz Gary Brooker Catherine Lara Joey Levine Francis Rossi Danny Elfman Mike Porcaro La Toya Jackson Steve Hanley Melissa Etheridge John Miceli Blaze Bayley Noel Gallagher Chan Kinchla W.S. Gilbert Doc Watson

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Stravinsky's Rite of Spring

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Isaac Albeniz

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Gary Brooker

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Catherine Lara

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Joey Levine

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Francis Rossi

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Danny Elfman

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Mike Porcaro

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La Toya Jackson

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Steve Hanley (bass)

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Melissa Etheridge

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John Miceli

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Blaze Bayley

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Noel Gallagher

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Chan Kinchla

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W.S. Gilbert

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Doc Watson

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There are about 90 more Doc Watson songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQMQ7qHfqQ&list=PL48446023595864E7, won't embed it has some scattered ads.

OK, what's on your minds?

Bonus:

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