Monday Open Thread: June 18 is Autistic Pride Day (International)

June 18 is the 169th day of the year, there are 196 days left

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Today's number is 18

18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later) 18 is the sum of 3 of its divisors, 3, 6, and 9 18 is argon, a noble gas I8 is the group containing noble (inert) gases in the periodic table

The Mahabarata has 18 books, (including the Bhagavad Gita which has 18 chapters) and concerns a war between 18 armies that lasted 18 days

OK, deep breath, but first recall that 1/3 is .333 repeated forever, 1/6 is .666 repeated forever and 1/9 is .111 repeated forever. 1/18 = 0.055 repeat 5 forever 2/18 = 0.111 repeat 1 forever (1/9) 3/18 = 0.166 repeat 6 forever (1/6) 4/18 = 0.222 repeat the 2 (2/9) 5/18 = 0.277 repeat the 7 6/18 = 0.333 repeat the 3 (1/3) 7/18 = 0.388 repeat the 8 8/18 = 0.444 repeat the 4 (4/9) 9/18 = .5 (1/2)

In most countries, 18 is the age of majority In most countries, 18 is the voting age 18 is the age of sexual consent under the Mann Act 18 is 6 pm There are 18 chapters in Ulysses by James Joyce

Title 11 of the US Code is CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

18 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus (That would be Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus) Caesar Augustus introduced two of the lex Julia, the Lex Iulia de Ambitu which punished bribery when acquiring political office and the Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus which restricted marriage between differing social classes Juba II was King of Mauretania and Lugaid Riab nDerg was High King of Ireland Nero Claudius Drusus was victorious at the Battle of the Lupia River and then built fortresses near Bonn, Dorsten, Haltern, and Oberaden -

18 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar The Roman poet Ovid died

On this day in:

860 -- A Rus fleet seized the Bosphorus and pillaged the suburbs of Constantinople. (This was in response to Byzantine aggression on the lower Don on behalf of the Khazars) 1429 -- Joan of Arc's forces beat the main English army at Patay. 1684 -- The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter was revoked 1778 -- British troops abandoned Philly. 1812 -- Madison signed the US declaration of war upon the UK, how quaint. 1815 -- The Battle of Waterloo 1830 -- The French invaded Algeria, because imperialism. 1858 -- Darwin received Wallace's paper, spurring him to publish his theory. 1873 -- Susan B. Anthony was fined $100 for trying to vote in 1872 1935 -- cops and mounties attacked striking longshoremen, injuring 60 at Ballentyne Pier, Vancouver, BC 1940 -- Charles de Gaulle made the "Appeal of 18 June" 1940 -- Winnie gave his "Finest Hour" speech 1948 -- Columbia Records introduced the long-playing record album 1954 -- Armas invaded Guatemala in a US backed coup with CIA trained troops and US supplied air forces * 1965 -- The US used B-52s to bomb suspected NLF forces in South Vietnam 1979 -- SALT II was signed 1981 -- The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk made its first flight 1982 -- Roberto Calvi's body was found hanging beneath London's Blackfriars Bridge 1983 -- Sally Ride became the first US woman in space.

* The US simply cannot stand for Guatemala to have any hint of Democracy, most recently when SOS Hillary Clinton supported and blessed a coup condemned by all members of the OAS

Born this day in:

1845 -- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, physician and parasitologist 1886 -- Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and paleontologist 1902 -- Louis Alter, composer and musician 1903 -- Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer 1910 -- Ray McKinley, singer, drummer, and bandleader 1913 -- Sammy Cahn, pianist and composer (teach me tonight) 1913 -- Sylvia Porter, economist, journalist and author 1926 -- Allan Sandage, astronomer and cosmologist 1933 -- Tommy Hunt, singer and flamingo 1936 -- Barack Obama Sr., economist 1942 -- Paul McCartney, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1942 -- Richard Perry, record producer 1942 -- Carl Radle, bass player and producer 1946 -- Maria Bethania, singer 1973 -- Ray LaMontagne, singer, songwriter and guitarist

Died this day in:

1928 -- Roald Amundsen, pilot and explorer 1936 -- Maxim Gorky, novelist, short story writer, and playwright 1942 -- Arthur Pryor, trombonist and bandleader 1971 -- Paul Karrer, chemist 1982 -- John Cheever, writer 1993 -- Craig Rodwell, activist, founder of the Oscar Wilde Bookshop 2007 -- Hank Medress, singer and producer 2011 -- Clarence Clemons, saxophonist

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