Monday Open Thread; September 25 was the Battle of Stamford Bridge

September 25th is the 268th day of the year. There are 97 days left.

Today's number is 25

25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors. It is odd, like the square of every prime other than 2.

25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9 & 16). Carpenters and others make fact of this property to draw large right angles, since this is a pythagorean triangle, with sides of 3, 4 and 5

25 is manganese 25 is the minimum age to get elected to the House of Representatives I-25 connects Wyoming and New Mexico, but nobody is sure why

25, in Hindi, is Pachisi, the national board game of India. Ours in the US must be Monopoly, I guess.

Title 25 of the US Code is INDIANS.

25 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silanus. This was the 9th consulship for Caesar Augustus) The temple to Neptune was built on the Circus Flaminius. (There was no temple to Uranus.) Rome surpassed Chang'an, China as the largest city in the world.

25 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa Liu Xiu restored the Han dynasty in China, becoming Emperor Guangwu of Han.

On this day in: 1066 -- King Harold whupped King Harald at The Battle of Stamford Bridge. Three Days later, William the Bastard walked ashore unopposed way down south in Pevensey Bay. 1513 -- Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa (aka stout Cortez) reached the pacific 1789 -- Congress passed the Bill of Rights. Amendments 2, 3, 9 & 10 still survive 1846 -- Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey. 1890 -- Congress established Sequoia National Park. 1906 -- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrated the Telekino, a remote control device 1929 -- Jimmy Doolittle performed the first airplane flight using instruments only 1942 -- Swiss Police instructions dictated that refugees because of race alone were not "Political Refugees" 1944 -- Survivors of the British 1st Airborne pulled out of Arnhem 1956 -- The first transatlantic telephone cable was inaguarated 1957 -- Central High in Little Rock was integrated by force

Born this day in:

1683 -- Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer, harmony freak 1764 -- Fletcher Christian, sailor 1862 -- Leon Boellmann, organist and composer 1897 -- William Faulkner, writer 1903 -- Mark Rothko, painter 1906 -- Dmitri Shostakovich, pianist and composer 1923 -- Sam Rivers, sax, clarinet, harmonica and piano player, also a composer 1929 -- Barbara Walters, journalist, producer and talking head 1930 -- Shel Silverstein, author, poet, illustrator and songwriter 1932 -- Glenn Gould, pianist and composer 1937 -- Mary Allen Wilkes, computer scientist and attorney 1942 -- John Taylor, pianist 1946 -- Jerry Penrod, bassist 1951 -- Burleigh Drummond, drummer (ambrosia) 1955 -- Steven Severin, bassist (souixie) 1964 -- Barbara Dennerlein, organist 1972 -- Douglas September, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:

1066 -- Harald Hardrada, king 1621 -- Mary Sidney, author and poet 1777 -- Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, physicist, and astronomer 1849 -- Johann Strauss I, composer 1867 -- Oliver Loving, co-developer of the Goodnight-Loving Trail 1917 -- Thomas Ashe, Irish Republican Brotherhood member, founding member of the Irish Volunteers 1928 -- Richard F. Outcault, cartoonist 1933 -- Ring Lardner, journalist and author 1960 -- Emily Post, author, snoot, conformist, stickler, bluenose 1970 -- Erich Maria Remarque, author 1971 -- Hugo Black, jurist, constitutionalist and civil rights supporter 1980 -- John Bonham, drummer 1999 -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, author 2003 -- George Plimpton, writer and editor 2012 -- Andy Williams, singer 2013 -- Billy Mure, studio guitarist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:

So, for music,

William the Bastard

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