Monday Open Thread; September 18 is World Water Monitoring Day

September 18th is the 261th day of the year. There are 104 days left.

Today's number is 18

18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later)

18 is the sum of 3 of its divisors, 3, 6, and 9 18 is argon, a noble gas I8 is the group containing noble (inert) gases in the periodic table

The Mahabarata has 18 books, (including the Bhagavad Gita which has 18 chapters) and concerns a war between 18 armies that lasted 18 days

OK, deep breath, but first recall that 1/3 is .333 repeated forever, 1/6 is .666 repeated forever and 1/9 is .111 repeated forever. 1/18 = 0.055 repeat 5 forever 2/18 = 0.111 repeat 1 forever (1/9) 3/18 = 0.166 repeat 6 forever (1/6) 4/18 = 0.222 repeat the 2 (2/9) 5/18 = 0.277 repeat the 7 6/18 = 0.333 repeat the 3 (1/3) 7/18 = 0.388 repeat the 8 8/18 = 0.444 repeat the 4 (4/9) 9/18 = .5 (1/2) 10/18 = 0.555 repeat 5 forever (5/9) 11/18 = 0.611 repeat 1 foreve 12/18 = 0.666 repeat 6 forever (2/3) 13/18 = 0.722 repeat the 2 14/18 = 0.777 repeat the 7 (7/9) 15/18 = 0.833 repeat the 3 (5/6) 16/18 = 0.888 repeat the 8 (8/9) 17/18 = 0.944 repeat the 4

In most countries, 18 is the age of majority In most countries, 18 is the voting age 18 is the age of sexual consent under the Mann Act (What famous performer was busted under the Mann Act?) 18 is 6 pm

There are 18 chapters in Ulysses by James Joyce

Title 18 of the US Code is CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE.

18 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus (That would be Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus) Caesar Augustus introduced two of the lex Julia, the Lex Iulia de Ambitu which punished bribery when acquiring political office and the Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus which restricted marriage between differing social classes Juba II was King of Mauretania and Lugaid Riab nDerg was High King of Ireland

18 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar The Roman poet Ovid died

On this day in: 0324 -- Constantine the Great whupped Licinius at Chrysopolis, the dark ages became inevitable 1066 -- Harald Hardrada landed in England, unwittingly giving it over to William the Bastard 1618 -- The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar began 1850 -- The U.S. Congress enacted the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Typical. 1873 -- The Panic of 1873 occurred, a cascade of bank bankruptcies that triggered a depression *** 1895 -- The "Atlanta compromise" 1927 -- CBS went on the air 1931 -- The Mukden Incident, which was used by Japan as a pretext to invade Manchuria 1945 -- MacArthur moved his command HQ to Tokyo. 1947 -- The USAF became an independent branch of the US Global War Machine 1947 -- The NSC and the CIA were created to further US imperial designs 1948 -- Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman elected to the US Senate not completing someone's term 1977 -- Voyager I took the first photo of the Earth and the Moon together. 1982 -- Christian "militia" slaughtered hundreds of unarmed, imprisioned, Palestinians in Lebanon. 1988 -- Pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar stopped after a coup and mass slaughter 1997 -- Various non-US countries adopted the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention

*** These periodic collapses are a feature of capitalism. The more pure and unregulated it is, the more frequent and severe they are. No known capitalist theorist has ever figured this out yet.

Born this day in:

1819 -- Leon Foucault, physicist 1838 -- Anton Mauve, painter, influenced Van Gogh 1905 -- Eddie Anderson, Rochester on the Jack Benny show 1905 -- Greta Garbo, she wanted to be left alone 1924 -- J. D. Tippit, Dallas cop; "Officer Tippit" 1933 -- Jimmie Rodgers, singer, songwriter and guitarist; neither the brakeman nor the bluesman 1940 -- Frankie Avalon, singer and actor, Funicello's foil 1944 -- Michael Franks, singer and songwriter; of "popsicle toes" fame/infamy 1945 -- P. F. Sloan, singer, songwriter and producer 1945 -- John McAfee, computer programmer 1949 -- Kerry Livgren, guitarist and songwriter, co-founder of Kansas 1951 -- Ben Carson, animated matter, possibly biological, sentience unknown 1951 -- Dee Dee Ramone, singer, songwriter and bass player 1956 -- Chris Hedges, pundit 1961 -- Mark Olson, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1971 -- Lance Armstrong, cyclist and doper 1973 -- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ltd.

Died this day in:

1783 -- Leonhard Euler, logician, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, engineer and more 1896 -- Hippolyte Fizeau, physicist 1961 -- Dag Hammarskjold, diplomat 1967 -- John Cockcroft, physicist, atom splitter 1970 -- Jimi Hendrix, experienced singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1977 -- Paul Bernays, mathematician and philosopher 1980 -- Katherine Anne Porter, author 1997 -- Jimmy Witherspoon, singer 1998 -- Charlie Foxx, singer and guitarist, half of Inez & Charlie Foxx 2004 -- Russ Meyer, director, producer, and screenwriter 2014 -- Kenny Wheeler, trumpet player, flugelhorn player and composer 2015 -- James R. Houck, astrophysicist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (United States) World Water Monitoring Day

So, for music,

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