Monday Open Thread: July 23 is The Birthday of Haile Selassie

July 23 is the 204th day of the year, there are 161 days left

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23 is The 9th prime and the sum of 3 consecutive primes; 5, 7 and 11

The atomic number of Vanadium

The number of chromosomes in a human sperm or ova (haploid)

The number of times that Julius Caesar was stabbed.

The 23 enigma is the belief that most incidents and accidents, events and happenstances, and stuff, are somehow directly connected to the number 23. Robert Anton Wilson, William S. Burroughs, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (fnord), Principia discordia, etc. Like this open thread, for example.

The exponent in 6.02 x 1023

Title 23 of the US Code is Highways Coincidence? You decide.

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23 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Varro Herod the Great allegedly built a palace in Jerusalem. -

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23 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus The Greek geographer Strabo finally published his "Geography", a work describing the world known to the Romans and Greeks in Emperor Augustus' day. No similar works of similar antiquity exist. Pliny the Elder, a Roman scientist and writer, was born. Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han Dynasty overthrew Wang Mang and ended the Xin Dynasty. Restored the Han Dynasty, he did.

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On this day in:

1829 - William Austin Burt patented the typographer, an ancestor of the typewriter

1840 - The Province of Canada was created *

1881 - The Boundary Treaty of

1881 between Chile and Argentina was signed

1885 - Ulysses S. Grant died

1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand

1929 - The Italiant government banned the use of foreign words

1936 - The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia was founded

1942 - The Treblinka extermination camp opened.

1952 - The Free Officers Movement overthrew King Farouk

1961 - The Sandinista National Liberation Front was founded

1962 - Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted live trans-Atlantic TV show

1962 - The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos was signed. **

1967 - The Detroit Riots started.

1968 - Glenville shootout and subsequent Glenview riots went down.

1992 - The Vatican pronounced that limiting the rights of homosexuals wasn't discrimination based on gender

1992 - Abkhazia declared independence from Georgia.

1995 - Comet Hale-Bopp was discovered

* This entitled Canadians to claim and use the honorific "provincials"

** It was almost immediately broken by the US, which never intended to respect it.

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Born this day in:

1886 - Walter H. Schottky, physicist

1888 - Raymond Chandler, author

1892 - Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor, Lion of Judah

1914 - Virgil Finlay, illustrator

1923 - Amalia Mendoza, singer and actress

1928 - Vera Rubin, astronomer, discovered the galaxy rotation problem

1929 - Danny Barcelona, drummer, aka "The Little Filipino Boy"

1931 - Te Atairangikaahu, Maori queen

1942 - Madeline Bell, singer and songwriter

1943 - Tony Joe White, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1944 - Dino Danelli, drummer

1946 - Andy Mackay, oboe player and composer

1948 - John Hall, politician, musician and songwriter (Orleans)

1950 - Blair Thornton, guitarist and songwriter

1952 - John Rutsey, drummer, replaced by Neil Peart

1952 - Janis Siegel, singer (The Manhattan Transfer)

1961 - Martin Gore, singer, songwriter, and guitarist

1965 - Slash, guitarist and songwriter

1971 - Alison Krauss, fiddler, singer and songwriter

1980 - Michelle Williams, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress

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Died this day in:

1403 - Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, rebel leader, twice, Hotspur's bro

1584 - John Day, printer

1757 - Domenico Scarlatti, composer and harpsichord player

1875 - Isaac Singer, inventor and businessman, improved the sewing maching

1885 - Ulysses S. Grant, occupant of Grant's tomb

1955 - Cordell Hull, father of the UN

1972 - Esther Applin, geologist and paleontologist

1980 - Keith Godchaux, keyboard player and songwriter

1980 - Mollie Steimer, activist *

1983 - Georges Auric, composer

2001 - Eudora Welty, author

2002 - Chaim Potok, author

2005 - Ted Greene, journalist and jazz guitarist

2007 - Ron Miller, songwriter (for once in my life, etc.)

2010 - Daniel Schorr, journallist

2011 - Amy Winehouse, singer & songwriter

2012 - Sally Ride, physicist and astronaut

* Convicted of Sedition for producing leaflets denouncing the U.S. military action in Russia opposing the Bolshevik revolution

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:

National Vanilla Ice Cream Day

International Yada, Yada, Yada Day

Hailie Selassie's Birthday (Rastafarians)

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Tellstar

Haile Selassie

Danny Barcelona

Madeline Bell

Tony Joe White

Dino Danelli

John Hall

Blair Thornton

Janis Siegel

Alison Krauss

Domenico Scarlatti

Keith Godchaux

Ted Greene

Ron Miller

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picture:  The Lion of Judah

 It's an open thread, so do your

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