Monday Open Thread; December 25 is Christmas

December 25 is the 359th day of the year, there are 6 days left

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Today's number is 25

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25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors

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

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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.

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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.

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On this day in:

274 -- A temple for Sol Invictus was dedicated in Rome 336 -- First recorded celebration of Christmas (in Rome.) 496 -- Clovis I of the Franks, was baptized as a Catholic 800 -- Charlemagne was coronated Holy Roman Emperor 1492 -- Columbus' flagship, The carrack Santa Maria, ran onto a reef off Haiti 1758 -- Halley's Comet was sighted, confirming Halley's prediction 1776 -- Washington crossed the Delaware at night to attack at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day 1809 -- The first ovariotomy, removing a 22 pound tumor 1815 -- The Handel and Haydn Society (US) gave its first performance 1831 -- The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt started. 1868 -- Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans (moving on, as they say) 1946 -- The Soviet F-1 nuclear reactor began Europe's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. ***** 1968 -- Apollo 8 did the first successful Trans-Earth injection (sending the astronauts back to earth) 1977 -- Begin met with Sadat in Egypt 1991 -- Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union, which dissolved the next day 1991 -- Ukraine's referendum was finalized and Ukraine officially left the Soviet Union.

****** It and its successors failed to produce energy too cheap to meter, unlike in the US.

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Born this day in:

1642 -- Isaac Newton, physicist and mathematician (old style date = Julian Calendar) 1776 -- Sydney, Lady Morgan, author 1821 -- Clara Barton, nurse, founded the Red Cross 1878 -- Louis Chevrolet, race car driver and businessman, co-founded Chevrolet 1886 -- Kid Ory, trombonist and bandleader 1889 -- Lila Bell Wallace, publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest 1890 -- Robert Ripley, anthropologist, cartoonist, and publisher (Don't believe it) 1899 -- Bogie 1907 -- Cab Calloway, singer, songwriter, and bandleader 1913 -- Tony Martin, singer 1918 -- Anwar Sadat, politician, won a Nobel for bringing peace to the middle-east 1924 -- Rod Serling, screenwriter and producer 1937 -- O'Kelly Isley Jr., singer and songwriter 1939 -- Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader 1942 -- Barry Goldberg, keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1945 -- Noel Redding, singer,songwriter, and bass player 1946 -- Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter, guitarist, 1948 -- Barbara Mandrell, singer, and songwriter 1954 -- Annie Lennox, singer & songwriter

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Died this day in:

1635 -- Samuel de Champlain, soldier, geographer, and explorer 1938 -- Karel Kapek, Czech author and playwright 1946 -- W. C. Fields, genius 1977 -- Charlie Chaplin, ditto 1983 -- Joan Miro, painter and sculptor 1995 -- Dean Martin, singer and actor 2006 -- James Brown, singer and songwriter 2008 -- Eartha Kitt, singer 2011 -- Jim Sherwood, saxophonist, inventive mother 2016 -- George Michael, singer 2016 -- Vera Rubin, astronomer

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

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So, for music,

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Louis Chevrolet

Kid Ory  

Cab Calloway  

Tony Martin  

O'Kelly Isley Jr    

Barry Goldberg  

Noel Redding  

Jimmy Buffett  

Annie Lennox  

Dean Martin  

James Brown  

Eartha Kitt  

Jim Sherwood  

picture is public domain by Aussie~Mobs

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