Monday Open Thread: June 25 - The Battle of the Greasy Grass (aka Little Big Horn)

June 25 is the 176th day of the year, there are 189 days left

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Tis Sweetmorn, Confusion 30, 3184 YOLD, and National Catfish Day in the US

Today's number is 25

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25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors

25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9 & 16). Carpenters and others make fact of this property to draw large right angles, since this is a pythagorean triangle, with sides of 3, 4 and 5 25 is manganese 25 is the minimum age to get elected to the House of Representatives I-25 connects Wyoming and New Mexico, but nobody is sure why 25, in Hindi, is Pachisi, the national board game of India. Ours in the US must be Monopoly, I guess.

Title 25 of the US Code is INDIANS

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25 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Silanus. This was the 9th consulship for Caesar Augustus The temple to Neptune was built on the Circus Flaminius. There was no temple to Uranus. Rome surpassed Chang'an, China as the largest city in the world.

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25 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Agrippa Liu Xiu restored the Han dynasty in China, becoming Emperor Guangwu of Han.

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On this day in:

1876 – The Battle of the Greasy Grass and the death of George Armstrong Custer. 1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts 1910 – Congress passed the Mann Act, prohibiting interstate transport of females for immoral purposes 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird premiered 1923 – The first ever aerial refueling 1940 – France officially surrendered to Germany 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl was published. 1948 – The Berlin airlift began. 1950 – The Korean War began 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride was first flown 1984 – Prince released his Purple Rain album 1987 – The last day until June 17th 2345 when all the digits in dd/mm/yyyy are different. 1998 – The Supremes declared the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 to be unconstitutional.

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Born this day in:

1852 – Antoni Gaudi, architect 1874 – Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer 1894 – Hermann Oberth, physicist and engineer 1903 – George Orwell, writer 1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, philosopher and logician 1922 – Johnny Smith, guitarist and songwriter 1925 – Clifton Chenier, singer, songwriter and accordion player 1928 – Bill Russo, composer and musician 1935 – Larry Kramer, author, playwright, and activist, co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis 1937 – Eddie Floyd, singer and songwriter 1940 – Clint Warwick, 1945 – Carly Simon, singer and songwriter 1945 – Harry Womack, singer and valentino 1946 – Allen Lanier, guitarist, keyboardist and songwriter 1946 – Ian McDonald, guitarist and saxophonist, founding member of King Crimson 1951 – Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, mathematician * 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, chef and author 1963 – George Michael, singer, songwriter and producer 1964 – John McCrea, singer, songwriter, musician and programmer of drums 1969 – Zim Zum, guitarist and songwriter

* co-proved Serre's conjecture II regarding the Galois cohomology of a simply-connected semisimple algebraic group when such a group is of classical type

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Died this day in:

1767 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer 1876 – At the Battle of the Greasy Grass:     At least 31 and possibly hundreds of Indian warriors defending their land, encampments, and families from attack     At least 6 unarmed Indian women and 4 unarmed Indian children non-combatants, an astonishingly low number*     258 of the invading genocidal criminal treaty violators, including Custer 1906 – Stanford White, architect 1944 – Lucha Reyes, singer, the mother of Rancheras 1958 – Alfred Noyes, author, poet, and playwright 1976 – Johnny Mercer, singer and songwriter 1988 – Hillel Slovak, guitarist and songwriter 2003 – Lester Maddox, politician 2009 – Michael Jackson, dancer, singer, songwriter, actor and producer 2011 – Annie Easley, mathematician, computer scientist and rocket scientist

* Targeting the non-combatant encampment to distract and divert the warriors was a favorite 7th Cavalry tactic.

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:   National Catfish Day in the US

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Catfish Day!

                                        Johnny Smith  

Clifton Chenier  

Bill Russo  

Eddie Floyd  

Clint Warwick  

Ian McDonald  

George Michael  

Georg Philipp Telemann  

Lucha Reyes  

Alfred Noyes  

Igor Stravinsky

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picture: public domain

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