Monday Open Thread; March 26 is Purple Day in Canada & the US

March 26 is the 85th day of the year, there are 280 days left

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Today is also Setting Orange, Discord 12, 3184 YOLD for all you Discordians out there

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

Title 26 of the US Code is 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:

1169 -- Saladin became the emir of Egypt. 1344 -- The Siege of Algeciras ended 1484 -- The first Engllish translation of Aesop's Fables was printed. 1830 -- The Book of Mormon was published 1871 -- The elections of the Commune council of the Paris Commune were held 1885 -- The Metis began the North-West Rebellion 1945 -- The Battle of Iwo Jima ended 1975 -- The Biological Weapons Convention became effective 1979 -- Carter, Sadat, and Begin signed the Egypt--Israel Peace Treaty

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Born this day in:

1850 -- Edward Bellamy, author and socialist 1859 -- A. E. Housman, classical scholar and poet 1873 -- Dorothea Bleek, anthropologist and philologist 1874 -- Robert Frost, poet, playwright, wall hater 1876 -- Kate Richards O'Hare, socialist party activist, racist, and jailbird 1879 -- Othmar Ammann, structural engineer 1906 -- Rafael Mendez, trumpet player and composer * 1911 -- J. L. Austin, philosopher (sense & sensibilia) 1911 -- Tennessee Williams, playwright and poet 1913 -- Paul Erdos, mathematician 1917 -- Rufus Thomas, singer, sonwriter and dog walker 1925 -- James Moody, saxophonist, flautist, and composer 1930 -- Sandra Day O'Connor, jurist 1930 -- Gregory Corso, poet and felon 1941 -- Richard Dawkins, ethologist and biologist 1942 -- Erica Jong, novelist and poet 1943 -- Bob Woodward, journalist and author 1944 -- Diana Ross, singer and songwriter 1948 -- Richard Tandy, keyboards player (elo) 1949 -- Fran Sheehan, base player 1950 -- Teddy Pendergrass, singer and songwriter 1956 -- Charly McClain, country singer 1968 -- Kenny Chesney, country singer 1968 -- James Iha, guitarist and songwrite

*  popularized La Virgen de la Macarena, traveled with Villa as a child

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Died this day in:

1827 -- Ludwig van Beethoven, pianist and composer 1892 -- Walt Whitman, poet and essayist 1945 -- David Lloyd George, celebrated in song 1973 -- Noel Coward, playwright, actor, composer

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:   Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii, United States) Purple Day (Canada and United States)

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Rafael Mendez

Rufus Thoms  

James Moody  

Diana Ross  

Richard Tandy  

Fran Sheehan  

Teddy Pendergrass  

James Iha  

and, on electric sackbutt - Ludwig van Beethoven  

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picture is Grant Condit's "Violaceous"

It's an open thread, so do your thing

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