Monday Open Thread; July 17 is the World Day for International Justice

July 17 is the 198th day of the year. There are 167 days left.

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Today's number is 17

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17 is a prime 17 is the sum of the first four primes (2,3,5,7) 17 is a Fermat Prime 17 is the minimum possible number of givens for a sudoku puzzle with a unique solution 17 is Chlorine Group 17 on the periodic table is the halogens There are 17 elementary particles in the Standard Model of physics There are 17 syllables in a Haiku A 17 sided polygon is a heptadecagon Seventeen is a magazine aimed at 10 through 21 year old females

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Unlike most numbers, 17 appears to have an edge

There is a 17 year cicada

If you really wanna know about heptadecagons, Fermat Primes, and the relationship between them

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"17 intelligence agencies" is a snide challenge to the veracity or credibility of something, such as "Did the 17 intelligence agencies tell you that?" or "Did the 17 intelligence agencies verify that?".

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Title 17 of the US Code is COPYRIGHTS.

17 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Furnius and Silanus   Arminius, who kicked (that damn) Varus' ass at Teutoburg Wald, was born

17 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Rufus An earthquake destroyed the city of Sardis Livy's Ab Urbe condita was published Germanicus returned to Rome a hero & celebraed a Triumph (perhaps a TR3, but the record is unclear) Ovid & Livy both died.

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On this day in:

1203 -- The Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople by assault and sacked and looted it 1665 -- Portugal gained independence from Spain in the Battle of Montes Claros 1717 -- Handel's Water Music premiered 1902 -- Willis Carrier built the first air conditioner 1918 -- Tsar Nicholas II, his immediate family, and retainers were executed by Chekists 1936 -- Spanish Civil War started 1944 -- Two ships laden with ammunition for the war exploded in Port Chicago, California, killing 320 1945 -- The Potsdam conference 1962 -- The last US atmospheric nuclear weapons test. 1975 -- First Apollo--Soyuz orbital docking 1976 -- Indonesia annexed East Timor 1998 -- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted by many non US countries 2014 -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down

Born this day in:

1698 -- Pierre Louis Maupertuis, mathematician, invented the principle of least action 1889 -- Erle Stanley Gardner, attorney and author 1894 -- Georges Lemaitre, astronomer and physicist, developed Hubble's Law. 1928 -- Vince Guaraldi, pianist, singer, and songwriter 1935 -- Diahann Carroll, actress and singer 1935 -- Peter Schickele, composer, educator renowned expert on PDQ Bach 1939 -- Spencer Davis, singer, songwrite and guitarist 1942 -- Zoot Money, singer, songwriter and keyboard player 1949 -- Geezer Butler, bassist and songwriter 1954 -- Angela Merkel, chemist and politician 1971 -- Cory Doctorow, author, activist and happy mutant

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Died this day in: 1790 -- Adam Smith, quack and schemer, robber with an invisible hand 1793 -- Charlotte Corday, killed Marat 1887 -- Dorothea Dix, nurse and activist 1912 -- Henri Poincare, mathematician, physisict, engineer 1918 -- Assorted Romanovs 1935 -- George William Russell, poet, painter and Irish Nationalist 1950 -- Evangeline Booth, first female General of the Salvation Army 1959 -- Billie Holiday, singer 1967 -- John Coltrane, saxophonist 1995 -- Juan Manuel Fangio, race car driver extraordinaire 1996 -- Chas Chandler, bassist 2006 -- Sam Myers, drummer, vocalist, harp player, songwriter 2006 -- Mickey Spillane, author 2009 -- Walter Cronkite, journallist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:                                           World Day for International Justice

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Water Music Spanish Civil War Vince Guaraldi Diahann Carroll Peter Schickele Spencer Davis Zoot Money Geezer Butler Adam Smith Evangeline Booth Billie Holiday John Coltrane Chas Chandler Sam Meyers

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Handel's Water Music

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Spanish Civil War mit banjo and bodhran, no less

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Vince Guaraldi

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Diahann Carroll

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Peter Schickele conducts the  Schleptet in Eb Major. Click on More to see the movements

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Peter Schickele conducting another work by PDQ Bach

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Spencer Davis who wandered into his local and found a 15 year old kid play1ng keyboards and singing

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Zoot Money

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Geezer Butler

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Adam Smith

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Evangeline Booth - "That's General Booth to you folk, got it?

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Billie Holiday

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John Coltrane

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Chas Chandler

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Sam Meyers

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Bonus Billie

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A brief bit of Beethoven

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And, of course

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