Monday Open Thread; January 29 is nothing in particular, so let's honor Liliuokalani

January 29 is the 29th day of the year, there are 337 days left

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Today's number is 29

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29 is a prime 29 is the sixth Sophie Germain prime 29 is the sum of three consecutive squares, 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2 29 is copper 29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert 29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29 I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however. 29 is the maximum age at which one is trustworthy (Weinberg's least favorite dictum). "$29.00" is a song on the album Blue Valentine by Tom Waits. 29 is a from the album Exit 0 by Steve Earle. The B-29 was the type ofbomber used to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Title 29 of the US Code is LABOR.

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29 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil sarted the Aeneid

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29 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus   Twins??

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On this day in:

1258 -- Dai Viet defeated the Mongols and drove them out of the country. 1834 -- Andy Jackson ordered federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute 1863 -- The Bear River Massacre 1886 -- Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-driven automobile 1891 -- Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii 1907 -- Charles Curtis becames the first Native American U.S. Senator. 2002 -- GW Bush berated the "Axis of evil" in his State of the Union. ***

*** This marked the start of an enormous, outrageous and sustained campaign of lies, deceit, misrepresentation, and propaganda dedicated to justifying a war of aggression against Iraq was begun.  It was generally supported, aided and abetted by the press, the pundits and talking heads and the majority of both political parties members of the House and Senate.

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Born this day in:

1860 -- Anton Chekhov, playwright and author 1881 -- Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist 1923 -- Paddy Chayefsky, author and screenwriter 1927 -- Edward Abbey, environmentalist and author 1933 -- Sacha Distel, singer and guitarist 1937 -- Bobby Scott, singer, songwriter and musician 1939 -- Germaine Greer, author, journalist and feminist. 1941 -- Robin Morgan, journalist, poet, activist, political theorist and author. 1946 -- Bettye LaVette, singer and songwriter 1947 -- Linda B. Buck, biologist 1947 -- David Byron, singer and songwriter 1953 -- Peter Baumann, keyboardist and songwriter. 1953 -- Charlie Wilson, singer and songwriter

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Died this day in:

0661 -- Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, principal source of Sunni v Shia conflict 1763 -- Louis Racine, poet 1888 -- Edward Lear, "poet" 1933 -- Sara Teasdale, poet 1934 -- Fritz Haber, chemist 1956 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist 1963 -- Robert Frost, poet 1969 -- Allen Welsh Dulles, criminal, bankster, first CIA head 1970 -- B. H. Liddell Hart, military historian 1992 -- Willie Dixon, bassist, singer, and songwriter 2008 -- Margaret Truman, author and singer 2015 -- Rod McKuen, poet

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:   This is the earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, except, it's Monday and not at all fat.

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So, for music,

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Queen Liliuokalani, a hero who was deposed and imprisoned because she tried to abrogate the Bayonet Constitution and give the poor rights, wrote:

Sacha Distel  

Bobby Scott  

Bettye LaVette  

David Byron  

Peter Baumann  

Charlie Wilson  

Willie Dixon  

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Bonus Willie Dixon  

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picture is an Image from page 332 of "Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm" (1899)

It's an open thread, so do your thing

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