Monday Open Thread: May 21st is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

May 21 is the 141st day of the year, there are 224 days left

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Tis Sweetmorn, Discord 68, 3184 YOLD for the discordians amongst us

Today's number is 21

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  21 is the product of 2 primes, 7 and 3

21 is the sum of the first 6 natural numbers. 1+2+3+4+5+6 = 21 21 is a fibonnacci number 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 21st Amendment ended prohibition 21 is Scandium 21 is the total of the spots on one 6 sided die (see: sum of the first 6 natural numbers, duh) In several countries 21 is the legal age of majority. In all US states 21 is the legal drinking age. In some countries 21 is the voting age. The highest-winning point total in Blackjack is 21 There are 21 shillings in a guinea.

OK, 21 is 3 x 7. Accordingly, x/21, whenever x =3n, is the same as n/7 which gets us back to the freaky repeating decimal (0.142857) discussed on the 7th and the 14th. The decimal part of n/7 where n is a natural number not a multiple of 999,999 or 7 is the remainder x 0.142857 repeated on out to infinity. n/14 has similar rules, and now we get to n/21, which is, for example ...

1/21 = 0.047619047619 repeat == (1/7)/3 2/21 = 0.095238095238 repeat == (2/7)/3 3/21 = 0.142857142857 repeat == (3/7)/3 == 1/7, Bingo! 4/21 = 0.190476 repeat == (4/7)/3 etc.

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Title 21 of the US Code is Food And Drugs

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21 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lollius and Lepidus Lepidus is "the Hare", but WTF is Lollius, "the Laugher"? -

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21 CE was the  Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar King Daeso of Dongbuyeo died in battle Arminius, who whupped that Damned Varus at the battle of Teutoburger Wald, died The Empress Wang died

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On this day in:

1703 -- Daniel Defoe was imprisoned for seditious libel. Good on him. 1851 -- Slavery was abolished in Colombia 1856 -- Lawrence, Kansas was captured and burned by pro-slavery forces 1871 -- French troops invaded the Paris Commune 1881 -- Clara Barton established the American Red Cross 1911 -- Porfirio Diaz and Francisco Madero signed the Treaty of Ciudad Juarez 1927 -- Charles Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget Field * 1932 -- Amelia Earhart landed in a pasture in Derry 1934 -- Oskaloosa, Iowa, became the first US town to fingerprint all of its citizens 1937 -- The Soviet " North Pole-1" became the first research settlement on arctic drift ice 1946 -- Louis Slotin was fatally irradiated by the "demon core" at Los Alamos 1961 -- Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declared martial law because Freedom Riders 1979 -- The San Francisco White Night riots took place 1994 -- The Democratic Republic of Yemen unsuccessfully attempted to secede from the Republic of Yemen 2001 -- Frenchofficially declared the Atlantic slave trade and slavery to be crimes against humanity.***

* First transatlantic nonstop solo ** First transatlantic solo by a woman *** The US has remained strangely silent on this matter

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Born this day in:

1471 -- Albrecht Durer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician 1527 -- Philip II of Spain aka "Philip the Sap" launched the Armada of fools 1688 -- Alexander Pope, poet, essayist and hair fetishist 1792 -- Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, mathematician and engineer 1799 -- Mary Anning, paleontologist 1844 -- Henri Rousseau, painter 1904 -- Fats Waller, singer, songwriter and pianist 1916 -- Harold Robbins, author 1918 -- Dennis Day, singer and actor 1920 -- Bill Barber, jazz tuba player 1921 -- Andrei Sakharov, physicist 1923 -- Dorothy Hewett, feminist poet, novelist and playwright 1933 -- Maurice Andre, trumpt player 1935 -- Terry Lightfoot, clarinet player and bandleader 1940 -- Tony Sheridan, singer, songwriter and guitarist 1941 -- Martin Carthy, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1941 -- Ronald Isley, singer, songwriter and producer, yep. 1943 -- Vincent Crane, pianist and composer 1943 -- John Dalton, bass player kinks 1943 -- Hilton Valentine, guitarist and songwriter animals 1947 -- Bill Champlin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1948 -- Leo Sayer, singer, songwriter and musician 1954 -- Marc Ribot, guitarist and composer

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Died this day in:

1542 -- Hernando de Soto, so-called "explorer" and conquistador * 1619 -- Hieronymus Fabricius, anatomist 1664 -- Elizabeth Poole, colonist, religious proselytizer, founder of Taunton 1686 -- Otto von Guericke, physicist 1786 -- Carl Wilhelm Scheele,  chemist 1810 -- Chevalier d'Eon, famously androgenous French diplomat and spy ** 1894 -- Emile Henry, noted anarchist 1911 -- Williamina Fleming, astronomer, discovered horsehead nebula 1919 -- Evgraf Fedorov, mathematician and crystallographer 1935 -- Jane Addams, activist and author 1935 -- Hugo de Vries, botanist and geneticist 1964 -- James Franck, physicist 1965 -- Geoffrey de Havilland, engineer 1973 -- Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpet player, and bandleader 2013 -- Frank Comstock, trombonist, composer, and conductor 2013 -- Bob Thompson, pianist and composer known for "space age(bachelor pad) pop" 2015 -- Louis Johnson, bass player

* I find it more and more improper to call imperialist comqueror and colonizer assholes like De Soto "explorers". They do not set out to explore and discover, but to conquer, colonize, expropriate and exploit.

**  Eon's life as lived would've almost certainly be impossible in today's putatively more civilized era.

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:   Afro-Colombian Day (Colombia) World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (International)

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Fats Waller

Bill Barber  

Maurice Andre  

Terry Lightfoot  

Tony Sheridan  

Ronald Isley  

John Dalton  

Hilton Valentine  

Bill Champlin  

Marc Ribot  

Bob Thompson  

Louis Johnson  

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picture: Emerald Schell's New Tissue Paper Collage

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