Monday Open Thread; February 19 is Copernicus' Birthday

February 19 is the 50th day of the year, there are 315 days left

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Today's number is 19

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19 is a prime number (the eighth prime) The only magic hexagon with more than 1 cell has 19 cells 19 is potassium The metonic cycle is roughly 19 years and pops up in calendars throughout history; 19 years = 235 lunar months A zero point hand in cribbage is called "nineteen" because no cribbage hand can have a 19 point score The 19th hole on a golf course is the bar A go board is a 19 x 19 grid

Title 19 of the US Code is CUSTOMS DUTIES

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19 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Saturninus and Vespillo The Aqua Virgo was completed The poet Virgil died  

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19 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Balbus Germanicus Julius Caesar died

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On this day in:

0356 -- Emperor Constantius II decreed the closing of all pagan temples in the Empire. * 1674 -- The Treaty of Westminster, ended the Third Anglo-Dutch War. ** 1878 -- Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. 1942 -- FDR signed executive order 9066, allowing the forced internment of  Japanese Americans 1943 -- The Battle of Kasserine Pass began 1945 -- The US Marines landed on Iwo Jima. 1949 -- Ezra Pound was awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry 1953 -- Georgia approved the US' first literature censorship board 1954 -- The Soviet Politburo transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. 1963 -- Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" was published 1976 -- Gerald Ford rescinded FDR's Executive Order 9066 ***

*  Leading to centuries of intellectual, behavioral, and occupational tyranny, the shadow and stink of which still permeates our lives

** It also transferred the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (to be renamed New York) to England.

***  Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, and Nixon couldn't be bothered.

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Born this day in:

1473 -- Nicolaus Copernicus, heretical mathematician and astronomer 1743 -- Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer 1904 -- Elisabeth Welch, singer and actress 1936 -- Sam Myers, singer and songwrite 1940 -- Smokey Robinson, singer, songwriter, and producer 1940 -- Bobby Rogers, singer, songwriter, and miracle 1946 -- Karen Silkwood, technician and activist 1948 -- Mark Andes, singer, songwriter, and bassist 1949 -- Eddie Hardin, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1952 -- Amy Tan, author

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Died this day in:

1916 -- Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher 1972 -- Lee Morgan, trumpet player and composer 2003 -- Johnny Paycheck, singer, songwriter and guitarist 2016 -- Harper Lee, author 2017 -- Larry Coryell, jazz guitarist

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

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So, for music,

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Luigi Boccherini  

Elisabeth Welch  

Sam Meyers  

Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers  

Lee Morgan  

Johnny Paycheck  

Larry Coryell  

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picture is "Image from page 135 of "Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (1878)"

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