Monday Open Thread; March 12 is World Day Against Cyber Censorship

March 12 is the 71st day of the year, there are 294 days left

Today is also Sweetmorn, Chaos 71, 3184 YOLD for all you Discordins out there

Today's number is 12

12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. making it a great base for a number system 12 is the sum of two primes, 5 & 7 A polygon with 12 sides is a dodecagon. A polyhedron with 12 faces is a dodecahedron. Cuboids (cubes & rectangular prisms) have 12 edges Regular icosahedrons have 12 vertices. 12 is magnesium A year has 12 months The 24 hour day is generally broken up into 2 - 12 hour segments, am & pm There are 12 inches in a foot. There are twelve basic hues in the color wheel In craps, 12, is a double 6. It is called Boxcars and is craps (loses or craps out) on a come out roll. Humans have 12 pairs of ribs There are 12 Federal Reserve Districts There were 12 kniggits of the round table There are 12 signs of the zodiac There were 12 Angry Men The 12 bar blues is a popular musical form 12th Night is a comedy by Shakespeare

Title 12 of the US Code is GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES

12 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Messalla and Quirinius Halley's Comet appeared. A Sign! A sign! Let us follow it!

12 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Sulla Caligula was born; a sign that nobody recognized

On this day in:

1881 -- Andrew Watson became the world's first black soccer player and captain. 1894 -- Coca-Cola was first bottled and sold 1912 -- The Girl Guides (later called Girl Scouts) were founded 1928 -- William Mulholland's St. Francis Dam failed; the floods killed 431 people 1930 -- Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March, 1933 -- FDR's first fireside chat 1938 -- German troops occupied Austria. 1947 -- The Truman Doctrine of foreign meddling was proclaimed 1967 -- Suharto took over from Sukarno 1993 -- North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 2009 -- Berie Madoff pleaded guilty to scamming $18 billion 2011 -- A Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactor melted and exploded, so, moar nukes!

Born this day in:

1685 -- George Berkeley, bishop and philosopher 1824 -- Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist 1832 -- Charles Boycott, a infamous land agent who was ostracized, hence boycott 1890 -- Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer 1896 -- Jesse Fuller, singer, songwriter, and musician 1907 -- Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer 1918 -- Elaine de Kooning, painter 1922 -- Jack Kerouac, author and poet, hit the road, 1923 -- Clara Fraser, feminist and socialist 1928 -- Edward Albee, playwright and director 1928 -- Aldemaro Romero, pianist, composer and arranger 1932 -- Andrew Young, civil rights leader, congressman, ambassador 1939 -- Jude Milhon, hacker, cyberpunk, programmer, activist, BSD contributor 1940 -- Al Jarreau, singer 1945 -- George Jackson, singer and songwriter 1946 -- Liza Minnelli, actress, singer and dancer 1948 -- James Taylor, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1949 -- Bill Payne, singer, songwriter, pianist 1957 -- Marlon Jackson, a Jackson

Died this day in: 1955 -- Charlie Parker, saxophonist and composer 1999 -- Yehudi Menuhin, violinist 2012 -- Michael Hossack, drummer doobie

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

So, for music,

Fukushima

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Jesse Fuller

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Jack Kerouac

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Aldemaro Romero

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Al Jarreau