Monday Open Thread; November 27 is the anniversary of the Washita Massacre

November 27 is the 331st day of the year, there are 34 days left

Today's number is 27

27 is a perfect cube, 3^3. 27 is the atomic number of cobalt. 27 is the weight of the only stable isotope of aluminum. The A-27 was a WWII American attack aircraft 27 is the number of bones in the human hand.[6] 27 is the average crowd funded contribution to Bernie Sanders. I-27 is an Interstate Highway, entirely within Texas, from Lubbock to Amarillo. Interstate, hello? 27 is self locating in pi. (Counting up from zero, the 27th & 28th digits after the decimal are 27.)

Title 27 of the US Code is INTOXICATING LIQUORS

27 BCE was the Year of the Second Consulship of Octavian and Agrippa Octavian returned full power to the Senate which, in exchange, granted him the titles of Princeps and Augustus. As Augustus, he bacame the first Roman Emperor. Emperor Ai of Han, was born Marcus Terentius Varro died.

27 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Piso and Frugi Apricots were transported from Asia to Rome Petronius was born

On this day in:

1095 – Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade 1703 – The Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed in a storm 1868 – The Washita Massacre of Cheyenne living on reservation land by troops under Custer *** 1895 – Alfred Nobel signed his will creating the Nobel Prize 1901 – The U.S. Army War College was established 1945 – CARE was founded 1965 – The Pentagon told LBJ it needed 280,000 more troops 1968 – Penny Ann Early played for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the L.A. Stars 1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2's descent module crashed onto Mars 1978 – George Moscone and Harvey Milk were assassinated by Dan White

*** One of numerous atrocities that are part of history's greatest genocide (but never referred to as such.) The whole continent was stolen, and the theft, murder, kidnapping of children, and oppression continues yet today.

Born this day in:

1809 – Fanny Kemble, actress, author, playwright and poet 1897 – Vito Genovese, businessman 1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, historian and author 1921 – Dora Dougherty Strother, pilot, WASP 1934 – Al Jackson, Jr., drummer, songwriter, MG, and producer 1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1942 – Jimi Hendrix, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1945 – Randy Brecker, trumpeter and flugelhornest 1953 – Lyle Mays, keyboardist and composer 1959 – Charlie Burchill, guitarist and songwriter 1959 – Viktoria Mullova, violinist 1979 – Hilary Hahn, violinist 1980 – Jackie Greene, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:

1852 – Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer scientist 1881 – Theobald Boehm, flute player, composer, instrument designer 1901 – Clement Studebaker, co-founder of Studebaker car company 1908 – Jean Albert Gaudry, geologist and paleontologist 1934 – Baby Face Nelson, businessman 1953 – Eugene O'Neill, playwright 1973 – Frank Christian, trumpet player 1981 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress 1998 – Barbara Acklin, singer and songwriter 2005 – Joe Jones, singer and songwriter 2006 – Don Butterfield, tuba player 2009 – Al Alberts, singer and songwriter 2012 – Mickey Baker, guitarist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such: Roll your own

Washita Massacre User Winter Rabbit posted a column devoted to the Washita Massacre over at the Daily Kos on Sunday. The link is: www.dailykos.com/...

So, for music,

The Eddystone Lighthouse

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