January 22 is the 22nd day of the year, there are 343 days left
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Today's number is 22
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22 is the product of two primes, 2 and 11 Being a product of 11 generates some fun we'll look at later 22 sevenths has been used as a rough approximation of pi for millenia 22 is titanium, a seriously kick-ass metal, but brittle in a pure state A cricket pitch is 22 yards long Catch 22 is a novel by Joseph Heller A "Catch 22" is a type of gotcha or puzzle such as occur in that novel .22 and .22LR (long rifle) are common small caliber weapons designations
"Fun" with "math" 1/11 = .090909 repeated forever 1/22 = 1/2 of 1/11 = 0.5 x .0909 = .04545454545 ad infinitum Thus, a/22 = a x .045454545 etc In doing mental arithmetic, multiplying by eleven is often easiest done by multiplying by 10 and then adding the original number. For example, 14 x 11 = 10 x 14 + 14 = 140 + 14 = 154 Similarly, multiplying by 22 is often easily done by multiplying by 2 and then multiplying the product by 11. Thus 14 x 22 = 28 x 11 = 280 + 28 = 308 Multiplying by 22 can also be made easier by first multiplying by 11 and then doubling the result. Thus 14 x 22 = (140+14) x 2 = 154 x 2 = 308 22 squared = 484, which just happens to be 4 x 11 squared. Hint: (2 x 11)(2 x 11) = (2 x 2)(11 x 11)
Title 22 of the US Code is FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE. While I am nether a lawyer nor a politician, it seems to me that each subject merits its own title, but there it is.
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22 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Arruntius Gaius Petronius, Roman governor of Egypt, destroyed the Nubian capital
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22 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Agrippa and Galba Roman law replaced Celtic law and customs in Gaul. The earth wept. Valeria Messalina, the third wife of Emperor Claudius was born
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On this day in:
1879 – The Zulu defeated the British at the Battle of Isandlwana 1879 – The British defeated the Zulu at the Battle of Rorke's Drift 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America was founded 1941 – British and Commonwealth forces took Tobruk 1944 – Allied forces attacked Anzio and Nettuno 1946 – Central Intelligence Group (to become the CIA)was created 1968 – Apollo 5 took off with the first Lunar module 1970 – The Boeing 747's maiden commercial flight 1973 – Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton granted women limited control over their bodies for the first six months of pregnancy (only) 2006 – Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Boliva
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Born this day in:
1552 – Walter Raleigh, imperialist ne'er-do-well who popularized tobacco 1561 – Francis Bacon, philisopher, scientist, empiricist, author and politician 1573 – John Donne, poet 1592 – Pierre Gassendi, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher 1645 – William Kidd, businessman 1729 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, philosopher 1788 – Lord Byron, poet 1849 – August Strindberg, novelist, poet, painter, and playwright 1858 – Beatrice Webb, sociologist, economist, socialist and reformer 1865 – Wilbur Scoville, chemist and pharmacist, inventor of the scoville unit and scoville scale 1887 – Helen Hoyt, poet and author 1891 – Antonio Gramsci, philosopher and politician, founding member of the CPI 1898 – Sergei Eisenstein, screenwriter and director 1904 – George Balanchine, dancer and choreographer 1906 – Robert E. Howard, author 1924 – J. J. Johnson, trombonist and composer 1931 – Sam Cooke, singer and songwriter 1949 – Steve Perry, singer, songwriter, and producer 1960 – Michael Hutchence, singer and songwriter 1962 – Jimmy Herring, guitarist 1965 – Steven Adler, drummer 1977 – Mario Domm, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer
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Died this day in:
1925 – Fanny Bullock Workman, geographer, cartographer, and mountain climber 1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, the last Johnson Democrat 2004 – Billy May, trumpet player and composer
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
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So, for music,
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