Monday Open Thread; February 26 was the first Judgement Against Galileo

February 26 is the 57th day of the year, there are 308 days left

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Today's number is 26

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Uh, 2 x 13, both primes 26 is Iron 26 is "breakfast" a notorious darts score where an attempted score of 180 (3 x triple 20) is misthrown as 1 + 20 + 5 There are 26 letters in the English Alphabet, making a string of letters a stronger password than a string of numbers Switzerland has 26 cantons

The island of Santa Catalina is only 22 miles from the California mainland no matter what you may have heard on the radio.

Title 26 of the US Code is The Internal Revenue Code

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26 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Taurus About time that somebody called bull on Augustus

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26 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Sabinus Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea. Tiberius retired to Capri

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On this day in:

1616 -- Galileo was banned from teaching or defending heliocentrism by the Roman Catholic Church  ** 1919 -- Woodrow Wilson establised the Grand Canyon National Park. 1929 -- Calvin Coolidge established the Grand Teton National Park 1935 -- Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to be re-formed 1935 -- Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated radar's possibility 1971 -- U Thant signed a UN proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day. 1987 -- The Tower Commission rebuked Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. *** 1993 -- 1993 World Trade Center bombing (you know, the truck bomb) 1995 -- Barings Bank collapsed after a broker lost $1.4 billion gambling on futures. This in no way discouraged Clinton from passing laws (plural)designed to encourage US banks to engage in such gambling

** It is heretical for anyone to think for themselves, let alone encourage others to do so. *** Something nobody since has ever done either

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Born this day in:

1564 -- Christopher Marlowe, playwright "This is hell nor am I out of it" 1715 -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, heretical philosopher 1802 -- Victor Hugo, author, poet, and playwright 1842 -- Camille Flammarion, astronomer and author 1846 -- Buffalo Bill, showman 1893 -- Dorothy Whipple, author 1918 -- Theodore Sturgeon, author 1921 -- Betty Hutton, actress and singer 1928 -- Fats Domino, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1932 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, 1943 -- Paul Cotton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (poco) 1943 -- Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer, songwriter, and musician 1945 -- Mitch Ryder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1947 -- Sandie Shaw, singer and shrink 1950 -- Jonathan Cain, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player (journey) 1958 -- Susan Helms, general, engineer, and astronaut 1979 -- Corinne Bailey Rae, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

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Died this day in: 1548 -- Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin 1903 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, gencidal massacre enabler, invented the Gatling gun 1969 -- Karl Jaspers, shrink and philosopher 1989 -- Roy Eldridge, trumpet player

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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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Galileo

Barings Bank  

Fats Domino  

Johnny Cash  

Paul Cotton  

Bob Hite  

Mitch Ryder  

Jonathan Cain  

Roy Eldridge  

Today's Sermon  

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picture is Galileo by William Storage

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