Monday Open Thread; October 16 is World Food Day

October 9th is the 289th day of the year. There are 76 days left.

Today's number is 16

16 = 4 squared and 2 to the fourth or 4**2 and 2**4. Coincidence? I don't think so. (I know of no other number that is both a**b and b**a where a is unequal to b) 16 is the base for the Hexadecimal numeral system, aka Hex Counting in Hex runs from 0 to 9 then A,B,C,D,E, and F for 10 through 15 Hex is used a ton in computer science, computers and computing 16 is sulfur There are 16 ounces in a pound

Title 16 of the US Code is CONSERVATION

16 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio Caesar Augustus reorganized the German provinces and made Trier their capital. (Trier is way cool. It has a ton of Roman ruins and Marx spent a chunk of his childhood there, in the Salmonish second story dwelling in the center of this picture:

This is, of course, commercially exploited, from fashion

To Transport

Elsewhere in 16 BCE, Roman legate Marcus Lollius was defeated by a Germanic horde. This was/is called "The Lollian Disaster" because the German raiders bagged the legionary standard (the Eagle).

16 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus won a victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions. (Those were the 3 eagles Varus lost in 9 BCE, not the paltry lone eagle Lollius lost in 16 BCE.)

On this day in: 1384 -- Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland, although she was a woman. 1841 -- Queen's University was founded in Kingston, Ontario 1843 -- Sir William Rowan Hamilton invented and described quaternions, non-commutative complex numbers 1847 -- Jane Eyre was published 1859 -- John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry 1869 -- Girton College, Cambridge, England's first redidential college for women, was founded 1875 -- Brigham Young University was founded, before Lavell Edwards was even born 1916 -- Margaret Sanger opened the US' first family planning clinic 1934 -- Chinese Communists begin the Long March (alternate date) 1940 -- The Warsaw Ghetto was established. 1943 -- Raid on the Rome Ghetto 1946 -- Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders from the Main Nuremberg Trial 1950 -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published 1964 -- China detonated its first nuke 1968 -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. 1978 -- Wanda Rutkiewicz was the first European woman to summit Mount Everest. 1984 -- Desmond Tutu got the Nobel Peace Prize. 1995 -- The Million Man March in Washington, D.C.

Born this day in:

1620 -- Pierre Paul Puget, painter and sculptor 1678 -- Anna Waser, painter 1679 -- Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer and viol player 1729 -- Pierre van Maldere, violinist and composer 1758 -- Noah Webster, lexicographer 1854 -- Oscar Wilde, wit, playwright, poet and novelist 1888 -- Eugene O'Neill, playwright 1898 -- William O. Douglas, jurist 1900 -- Primo Conti, futurist painter 1927 -- Gunter Grass, novelist 1931 -- Charles Colson, evangelical lawyer and criminal, Nixon's hatchet 1938 -- Nico, as in "The Velvet Underground and Nico" 1943 -- Fred Turner, bassist, singer, songwriter, co-founder of Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1945 -- Roger Hawkins, session drummer 1947 -- Bob Weir, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1952 -- Cordell Mosson, bassist, took over for Bootsy Collins 1953 -- Tony Carey, keyboardist 1960 -- Bob Mould, singer, songwriter, guitarist (husker du) 1962 -- Flea, bassist, Chili Pepper 1969 -- Wendy Wilson, singer and songwriter

Died this day in:

1553 -- Lucas Cranach the Elder, painter 1959 -- George Marshall, general, planner, politician 1972 -- Leo G. Carroll, Topper 1973 -- Gene Krupa, Drummer 1990 -- Art Blakey, drummer, bandleader, messenger 1997 -- James A. Michener, author 2001 -- Etta Jones, singer, and songwriter 2004 -- Pierre Salinger, journalist and politician

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: World Food Day (International) World Anaesthesia Day (International) Teachers' Day (Chile) Boss's Day (United States and Canada) - I shit you not.

So, for music,

John Brown

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