Monday Open Thread; April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day (United States) Bwahahahahahaha!

April 16 is the 106th day of the year, there are 259 days left

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Today is also Sweetmorn, Discord 33, 3184 YOLD   (for the discordians amongst us)

Today's number is 16

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16 = 4 squared and 2 to the fourth or 4**2 and 2**4. Coincidence? I don't think so. (I know of no other number that is both a**b and b**a where a is unequal to b) 16 is the base for the Hexadecimal numeral system, aka Hex Counting in Hex runs from 0 to 9 then A,B,C,D,E, and F for 10 through 15 Hex is used a ton in computer science, computers and computing 16 is sulfur There are 16 ounces in a poundallowfullscreen>

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Title 16 of the US Code is CONSERVATION

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16 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Ahenobarbus and Scipio Caesar Augustus reorganized the German provinces and made Trier their capital. (Trier just installed at least one traffic control light with charactures of Karl Marx on thw wait and walk lenses to celebrate the bicentennial of his birth there) Elsewhere in 16 BCE, Roman legate Marcus Lollius was defeated by a Germanic horde. This was/is called "The Lollian Disaster" because the German raiders bagged the legionary standard (the Eagle).

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16 CE was the   Year of the Consulship of Taurus and Libo A Roman army of 50,000 men commanded by Germanicus won a victory at Idistaviso, defeating the German war chief Arminius and recovering the lost eagles of Varus' legions. (Those were the 3 eagles Varus lost in 9 BCE, not the paltry lone eagle Lollius lost in 16 BCE.)

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On this day in:

0073 -- Masada fell to the Romans 1520 -- The Revolt of the Comuneros started in Castile 1746 -- The Battle of Culloden 1818 -- The US Senate ratified the Rush--Bagot Treaty setting the Canadian border 1862 -- The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law 1908 -- Natural Bridges National Monument was created 1912 -- Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel 1917 -- Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland 1919 -- Gandhi organized a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1941 -- The Ustase was put in charge of Croatia 1943 -- Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD 1961 -- Castro declared he was a Marxist--Leninist and that Cuba would adopt Communism. 1963 -- MLK Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Born this day in:

1755 -- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, painter 1800 -- George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, military idiot ** 1844 -- Anatole France, writer 1867 -- Wilbur Wright, engineer, inventor, bicyclist, pilot 1900 -- Polly Adler, madam and author 1908 -- Ray Ventura, bandleader 1922 -- Kingsley Amis, novelist and poet 1924 -- Rudy Pompilli, saxophonist 1929 -- Roy Hamilton, singer 1929 -- Ed Townsend, singer and songwriter 1930 -- Herbie Mann, flautist and composer 1935 -- Bobby Vinton, singer 1939 -- Dusty Springfield, singer 1943 -- Lonesome Dave Peverett, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1947 -- Gerry Rafferty, singer and songwriter 1956 -- T Lavitz, composer and keyboard player 1958 -- Ulf Wakenius,  guitarist 1963 -- Jimmy Osmond, singer and Osmand 1971 -- Selena, singer and songwriter

** One of 3 clowns responsible for ordering the Charge of the Light Brigade, causing a Fench observer (Bosquet) to comment "C'est magnfique, mais  ce n'est pas le guerre: c'est de la folie."

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Died this day in:

1788 -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, mathematician, naturalist, cosmologist, encyclopediste 1846 -- Domenico Dragonetti, bassist and composer 1850 -- Marie Tussaud, sculptor, founder of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum 1859 -- Alexis de Tocqueville, historian and philosopher 1958 -- Rosalind Franklin, chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer 1968 -- Edna Ferber, novelist, short story writer, and playwright   1988 -- Khalil al-Wazir, founded Fatah 1992 -- Andy Russell, singer 1994 -- Ralph Ellison, novelist 1999 -- Skip Spence, songwriter, singer, and musician

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:   Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C., United States) National Healthcare Decisions Day (United States)

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Healthcare decisions

Albert Hoffman  

Rudy Ponpilli  

Roy Hamilton  

Ed Townsend  

Herbie Mann  

Bobby Vinton  

Dusty Springfield  

Gerry Rafferty  

Ulf Wakenius  

Selena  

Andy Russell  

Skip Spence  

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It is seriously unlikely that I will be here to interact when this posts. Should I fail to respond to comments, please just assume that I am out somewhere under an open sky with no signal and no regrets as to that state of affairs. Either that, or I am in some tasting room studiously focusing upon my researches. In any event, everybody have a great day.

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picture is My Happy Pills Bottle by Lottie

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