Monday Open Thread; September 11 is National Day of Service and Remembrance (USA)

September 11th is the 254th day of the year. There are 111 days left.

Today's number is 11

Like 7 and its multiples, 11 and its multiples generate fun fractions (more later) 11 is the smallest positive integer with a 3 syllable name 11 is the 5th prime and the smallest 2 digit prime If a number is divisible by 11, so is its reverse, for example: 165 and 561 if no 2 consecutive digits of a number add up to more than nine, then multiplying it by eleven generates a number which is the reverse of the product of the original number's reverse multiplied by 11. HUH? Example: 15 x 11=165 and 51 x 11 = 651 OK, deep breath 11 goes into 99 exactly 9 times. As a result, the decimal expansion of any common fraction with 11 in the denominator will be a two digit infinite repeat. 1/11 = .09 repeated, 2/11 = .18 repeated, 3/11 = .27 repeated, 4/11 = .36 repeated, etc. The repeating 2 digits are multiples of the numerator and .09 for numerators less than 11. An 11 sided polygon is a hendecagon or an undecagon 11 is significant in Thelema 11 is a master number in Numerology 11 is a come out win at craps 11 is sodium There are 11 players per side on the field at one time in soccer, cricket, field hockey and US style football Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", has 11 consecutive repetitions of the same chord. Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven There is a Grateful Dead song named "The Eleven"

Title 11 of the US Code is BANKRUPTCY.

11 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Tubero and Maximus Nero Claudius Drusus was victorious at the Battle of the Lupia River and then built fortresses anear Bonn, Dorsten, Haltern, and Oberaden

11 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Taurus The hare and the bull? Artabanus III of the Arsacid Dynasty became ruler of Parthia

On this day in: 1541 -- Indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco destroyed Santiago, Chile 1609 -- Henry Hudson discovered the people living on Manhattan Island as well as their island home 1649 -- Cromwell's army of thugs took the town of Drogheda and slaughtered its garrison. 1709 -- Allied forces under Wellington won a Pyrrhic victory over France at Malplaquet. 1826 -- Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason was arrested in Batavia, New York and eventually vanished 1857 -- Mormons of the Nauvoo Legion, massacred 120 California bound pioneers at Mountain Meadows, Utah. 1922 -- The Treaty of Kars was (maybe) ratified in Yerevan, Armenia. 1939 -- Canada declared war on Germany 1943 -- Start of the Nazi liquidation of the Minsk and Lida ghettos 1944 -- The RAF bombed Darmstadt 1950 -- Truman approved military operations north of the 38th parallel in Korea 1972 -- BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) system began operations 1973 -- A US backed & instigated coup by Pinochet overthrew democratically elected president Allende 1982 -- International forces left Beirut, enabling the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres. 1997 -- NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reached Mars. 2001 -- Terrorists crashed aircraft into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania 2007 -- Russia tested the Father of All Bombs.

Born this day in:

1522 -- Ulisse Aldrovandi, ornithologist and botanist 1611 -- Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, general 1816 -- Carl Zeiss, scientific instrument maker 1829 -- Thomas Hill, painter 1847 -- Mary Watson Whitney, astronomer, head of Vassar observatory 1862 -- O. Henry, writer and candy bar 1885 -- D. H. Lawrence, novelist, poet and critic 1893 -- Emilienne Delacroix, painter 1899 -- Jimmie Davis, singer, songwriter and politician. 1911 -- Bola de Nieve, singer, songwriter and pianist 1917 -- Jessica Mitford, journalist and author 1943 -- Jack Ely, singer and guitarist (Kingsmen, Louie, Louie) 1946 -- Dennis Tufano, singer (original lead for the Buckinghams) 1948 -- John Martyn, guitarist, singer, and songwriter 1953 -- Renee Geyer, singer and songwriter 1953 -- Tommy Shaw, guitarist, singer, and songwriter Styxx 1957 -- Jon Moss, drummer (think Culture Club) 1965 -- Bashar al-Assad, foreign leader we don't control and haven't been able to overthrow 1971 -- Markos Moulitsas, blogger, blog owner

Died this day in:

1843 -- Joseph Nicollet, astronomer, cartographer, mathematician, mapped Upper Missippi River basin. 1950 -- Jan Smuts, politician 1957 -- Mary Proctor, astronomer, astronomy book author 1971 -- Nikita Khrushchev, big Disney fan 1972 -- Max Fleischer, cartoonist 1973 -- Salvador Allende, Chile's elected leftist president who the US had killed because leftist 1987 -- Peter Tosh, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2001 -- Casualties of the 9/11 attacks 2014 -- Bob Crewe, singer, songwriter and producer 2016 -- Alexis Arquette, actress, activist, musician and cabaret performer

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Emergency Number Day (USA) National Day of Service and Remembrance (USA) Patriot Day (USA)

So, for music

Eleven (in 11/8 time, fwiw)

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