July 10 is the 191th day of the year. There are 174 days left.
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Today's number is 10
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10 is the base of the decimal number system. Since many others such as 12 make more sense, we must assume that it is because humans have 10 manual digits.
10 years is a decade, well, 10 anything, sort of, though "decad" also means a set or group of ten To reduce something by 10 is to decimate. 10 is the sum of the first 4 integers That might be why bowling is also known as ten pins 10 is the sum of the first 3 primes (2,3,& 5) A polygon with 10 sides is a decagon A crustacean with 10 legs is a decapod A person with 10 or more vices is decadent (needs a citation) 10 is neon 10 is also Capricorn which is also a sea goat A specific selection of 10 track & field events is a decathalon 10 yards is a first down in US football The end zones in US football are 10 yards deep The Rim of the hoop in roundball is 10 feet high The highest score possible is often 10 Bo Derek may or may not have been a perfect 10. 10 High is a barely potable, but inexpensive, whiskey The "10-Code", good buddy, is numerical shorthand used by cops, emergency responders, truckers and CW artists Tennis has nothing to do with the numeral 10. 10 factorial is 3,628,800, the number of seconds in 6 weeks
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10 Years after is both a book and a band
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10 cents (US) is a "dime", as in Just One Thin Dime, one Tenth of a Dollar:
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And, there were once Ten Thousand Maniacs
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Title 10 of the US Code is ARMED FORCES.
10 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Maximus and Antonius Claudius, the future emperor, of PBS fame, was born
10 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Dolabella and Silanus Illyria was split into Pannonia and Dalmatia. Ovid completed Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto Wang Mang outlawed the private purchase and use of crossbows Hero of Alexandria was born
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On this day in:
1499 -- Nicolau Coelho returned to Lisbon having found the sea route to India with Vasco da Gama. 1821 -- The US took possession of Florida 1913 -- The temperature in Death Valley hit 134 F 1925 -- Meher Baba began his 44 year silence 1925 -- The Scopes Trial began 1940 -- The Vichy government was established 1951 -- Negotiations to end the Korean War began 1962 -- Telstar was launched 1966 -- The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., held a rally at Soldier Field 1985 -- Assassins of the French DGSE bombed and sunk the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland killing Fernando Pereira. 1991 -- Boris Yeltsin took office as President of Russia 1992 -- Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years for pissing off his former boss and the US' first CIA president, Bush the elder. This was the first application of the Bush doctrine, according to which the US can pass extraterritorial laws and edicts governing the behavior of foreign citizens and governments within their home countries and enforce such edicts and laws by military invasions, kidnappings, and other acts of war.
Born this day in:
1509 -- John Calvin, preacher 1723 -- William Blackstone, lawyer and judge 1804 -- Emma Smith, religious leader 1830 -- Camille Pissarro, influential painter 1832 -- Alvan Graham Clark, astronomer and telescope maker who discovered Sirius B 1834 -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painter famous for his mom 1856 -- Nikola Tesla, physicist, engineer, and inventor 1871 -- Marcel Proust, writer 1875 -- Mary McLeod Bethune, activist and educator, started what became Bethune-Cookman U. 1878 -- Otto Freundlich, sculpter and painter 1891 -- Edith Quimby, medical researcher and physicist, a founder of nuclear medicine 1895 -- Carl Orff, composer 1897 -- Legs Diamond, businessman 1905 -- Mildred Benson, author (Nancy Drew) 1907 -- Blind Boy Fuller, Piedmont Blues guitarist and singer 1911 -- Cootie Williams, trumpet player and bandleader 1920 -- David Brinkley, journalist 1920 -- Owen Chamberlain, physicist, co-discoverer of anti-proton 1921 -- Harvey Ball, illustator and recognized creator of the smiley face 1921 -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, activist and co-founder of the Special Olympics 1922 -- Jean Kerr, author and playwright 1931 -- Alice Munro, author 1938 -- Lee Morgan, trumpet player and composer 1939 -- Mavis Staples, THE Mavis Staples 1943 -- Jerry Miller, guitarist, singer and songwriter 1947 -- Arlo Guthrie, singer, songwriter, guitarist, activist 1974 -- Imelda May, singer and songwriter, plays: bodhran, guitar, bass guitar and tambourine. She has a truly bodacious bodhran
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Died this day in: 0138 -- Hadrian, Roman emperor, walled off the Scots 1851 -- Louis Daguerre, photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype 1941 -- Jelly Roll Morton, pianist and bandleader 1954 -- Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafia leader 1979 -- Arthur Fiedler, conductor 1987 -- John Hammond, record producer and activist 1989 -- Mel Blanc, voice of nearly all but Fudd
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Nikola Tesla Day Silence Day (Meher Baba)
TESLA !!
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So, for musicMeher Baba Scopes Tellstar Noreiga Carl Orff Blind Boy Fuller cootie Williams Lee Morgan Mavis Staples Jerry Miller Arlo Guthrie Imedla May Jelly Roll Morton Arthur Fiedler John Hammond Mel Blanc
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Scopes
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Noreiga
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Carl Orff (sort of)
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Blind Boy Fuller
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Cootie Williams
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Lee Morgan
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Mavis Staples
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Jerry Miller
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Arlo Guthrie (Now lissen up, Tim)
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Imedla May
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Jelly Roll Morton
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Arthur Fiedler
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John Hammond - the people he "discovered" will boggle your mind
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Mel Blanc
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Bonus:
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Blind Boy Fuller
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Mavis Staples
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Another side of Imelda May:
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