November 6 is the 310th day of the year, there are 55 days left
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Today's number is 6
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6 is 6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect number,
6 is the only number that is both the sum and the product of three consecutive positive numbers.
6 similar coins can be arranged around a central coin of the same radius so that each coin makes contact with the central one and both of its neighbors.
A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane.
There are six basic trigonometric functions.
A star of David has 6 points
Hexa is classical greek for 6 A hexahedron is a polyhedron with six faces. A cube is a special case of the hexahedron A die is a special cube and 6 is highest number on a normal die. Hexameter is a poetic form consisting of six feet per line A "hex nut" is a nut with six sides, and a hex bolt has a six-sided head The prefix "hexa-" occurs in the name of many chemical compounds, such as hexane. A hexaflexagon is an interesting object made from a strip of paper that everybody can make and fool around with. There are several more variations than those in this video
x YouTube VideoSex is latin for 6 A sextant forms one-sixth of a whole circle 6 musicians are a sextet 6 babies delivered in one birth are sextuplets Sorry, no sex related videos
A standard guitar has 6 strings A fathom is 6 feet long (deep) 6 is highest number on either end of a standard domino
M6 is an open cluster in the constellation Scorpius.
The cells of a beehive are 6-sided Insects have 6 legs A benzene molecule has a ring of 6 carbon atoms 6 is the atomic number of carbon The sixfold symmetry of snowflakes is due to the hexagonal crystal structure of water ice which comes from the hydrogen bonding of water molecules
In the Standard Model of particle physics, there are 6 types of quarks and 6 types of leptons
Common references to 6 include 6 feet under 6 degrees of separation 6th sense 6 pack 6 banger, straight 6, or v-6 6 gun or 6 shooter Deep six.
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Title 6 of the US Code is Domestic Security (including the Heimat Sicherheitspolizei Homeland Security Organization)
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6 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Balbus and Vetus Emperor Augustus sent ferrets to the Balearic Islands to control the rabbit plagues. (The islanders were great slingers so it made sense for a military empire to cater to them.) I wonder if they were folk slingers, or more formal? Tiberius Claudius Nero was sent to Armenia, then retired to Rhodes. Another opportunity for me to play ...
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6 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Arruntius (Lepidus = hare, FWIW) Josephus says that Quirinius conducted a census in Judea which caused a revolt therein which was led by led by Judas the Galilean. The revolt was put down and the rebels were crucified, but it gave birth to the Zealot movement. The zealots wished to establish a global Jewish theocracy and fought the Romans until about 70 CE. They left behind their name.
Meanwhile, in China, an occultation of Mars by the moon caused some to fear for the life of emperor Ping Di who, in fact, died of unexpected causes within a couple of months. This left it up to good old Wang Mang to select a new emperor, and he picked the 2 year old Ruzi Ying.
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On this day in:
1528 -- Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stumbled across what would someday be Tejas *** 1856 -- George Eliot submitted "Scenes of Clerical Life" for publication 1865 -- The CSS Shenandoah finally surrendered to the US 1913 -- Mohandas Gandhi was busted for leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1935 -- Edwin Armstrong presented FM to the Institute of Radio Engineers. 1943 -- The Red Army recaptured Kiev from the Nazis 1944 -- Plutonium was first produced at Hanford for use in Fat Man against Nagasaki 1947 -- Meet the Press made its TV debut 1962 -- The UN condemned South Africa's apartheid and called for a boycott by members 2012 -- Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay US Senator
*** Perhaps his name, Head of a Cow, is what doomed the state to fill up with cowpokes and cowtowns?
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Born this day in:
1558 -- Thomas Kyd (d. 1594), playwright 1692 -- Louis Racine, poet 1753 -- Jean-Baptiste Breval, cellist and composer 1814 -- Adolphe Sax, invented the Krummhorn Saxophone 1833 -- Jonas Lie, author, poet, and playwright 1854 -- John Philip Sousa, composer, conductor and honorary Python 1861 -- James Naismith, invented basketball 1892 -- Harold Ross, journalist, co-founder of The New Yorker 1916 -- Ray Conniff, composer and conductor 1921 -- James Jones, novelist 1923 -- Don Lusher, trombonist and bandleader 1932 -- Stonewall Jackson, cw singer and songwriter 1937 -- Eugene Pitt, doo-wop singer 1938 -- P. J. Proby, singer and songwriter 1938 -- Diana E. H. Russell, activist and author 1939 -- Michael Schwerner, activist, civil rights martyr 1940 -- Ruth Messinger, activist 1941 -- Guy Clark, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1941 -- Doug Sahm, ditto, also plays bajo sexto 1945 -- Lani Hall, singer, lyricist and author 1946 -- George Young, guitarist and songwriter 1948 -- Glenn Frey, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1949 -- Arturo Sandoval, trumpet player, pianist and composer 1955 -- Maria Shriver, jurnalist, author 1961 -- Florent Pagny, singer, songwriter and actor 1962 -- Annette Zilinskas, singer and bass player 1964 -- Corey Glover, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1964 -- Greg Graffin, singer and songwriter 1966 -- Paul Gilbert, guitarist and singer 1976 -- Mike Herrera, singer, songwriter and bass player 1976 -- Jodi Martin, singer, songwriter and suitarist 1988 -- Conchita Wurst, singer
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Died this day in:
1632 -- Gustavus Adolphus 1816 -- Gouverneur Morris, wrote the preamble to the US Constitution 1893 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer 1965 -- Clarence Williams, singer, songwriter and pianist 1970 -- Agustin Lara, singer, songwriter and actor 1989 -- Dickie Goodman, half of Buchanan and Goodman 2000 -- David Brower, Sierra Club founder 2000 -- L. Sprague de Camp, author 2005 -- Miguel Aceves Mejia, King of the Falsetto 2007 -- Hank Thompson, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2014 -- Rick Rosas, bassist
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict Malaria Day in the Americas
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So, for music,
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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Bonus:
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Rick Rosas
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Doug Sahm (Texas Tornados)
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Doug Sahm and friends
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Special Swan Lake Update
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picture public domain by Yu-Chan Chen
Crossposted from http://caucus99percent.com
EDIT — fixed incorrect video for Texas Tornados