Today is Martin Luther King Day
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 |
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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. |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| There are 18 chapters in Ulysses by James Joyce |
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18 BCE was Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus (That would be Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus) |
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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 |
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| 18 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar |
| The Roman poet Ovid died |
| On this day in: |
| 1535 | - Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, now the capital of Peru. |
| 1670 | - Henry Morgan captured Panama |
| 1778 | - James Cook was the first known European to stumble across the Hawaiian Islands |
| 1788 | - The lead ships of the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay carrying convicts to found a penal colony |
| 1919 | - The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France |
| 1943 | - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto |
| 1944 | - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosted its first a jazz concert, featuring Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden (Paydirt, Y'all) |
| 1967 | - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" was convicted and sentenced to life |
| 1974 | - A Disengagement of Forces agreement was signed by Israeli and Egypt |
| 1976 | - Lebanese Christian militias overran Karantina, Beirut and killed at least 1,000 despite the lack of a declared Crusade
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| 1993 | - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states. Suck it, Racists
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| Born on this day in: |
| 1689 - | Montesquieu, a French lawyer and philosopher |
| 1779 - | Peter Mark Roget, an English physician, lexicographer, and theologian. Wrote a thesaurus
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| 1782 - | Daniel Webster, an American lawyer and politician, the 14th United States Secretary of State. The protagonist of "The Devil and Daniel Webster", a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét |
| 1882 - | A. A. Milne, an English author, poet, and playwright |
| 1892 - | Oliver Hardy, an American actor, singer, and director who claimed descent from Sir Thomas Hardy, Admiral Nelson's Flag-Captain at Trafalgar
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| 1905 - | Joseph Bonanno, an Italian-American mob boss. The Bonanno family eventually moved to San Jose, Ca. |
| 1911 - | Danny Kaye, an American actor, singer, and dancer. |
| 1932 - | Robert Anton Wilson, an American psychologist, author, poet, and playwright. Wiseass too. |
| 1933 - | David Bellamy, an English botanist, author and academic |
| 1933 - | Ray Dolby, an American engineer and businessman who founded Dolby Laboratories |
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Bobby Goldsboro, an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer |
| 1941 - | David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations)
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| Deaths this day in: |
| 52 BCE - | Publius Clodius Pulcher, a Roman politician. Semolina's grandfather
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| 1425 - | Edmund Mortimer, the 5th Earl of March, English politician. Shakespeare wrote about him.
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| 1873 - | Edward Bulwer-Lytton, an English author, poet, playwright, and politician, Snoopy's inspiration
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| 1936 - | Rudyard Kipling, an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 1954 - | Sydney Greenstreet, an English-American actor and singer |
| 2008 - | Georgia Frontiere, an American businesswoman and Boss Ram
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| 2011 - | Sargent Shriver, an American politician and diplomat |
Satch
St. Louis Blues
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St. James Infirmary
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La vie en rose
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When The Saints Go Marching In
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Basin Street Blues
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Benny Goodman
St. Louis Blues
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Benny Goodman Quartet - Avalon
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Benny Goodman Trio (China Boy and Sheik of Araby)
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Benny Goodman & Lionel Hampton Stealin Apples (with Danny Kaye as straight man)
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Lionel Hampton Did vibes, piano, and drums, this is mostly vibes
Flying Home (1957)
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Hamp's Boogie Woogie
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GENE KRUPA & LIONEL HAMPTON "Sing,Sing,Sing" (1971)
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Speaking of drums -- Lionel Hampton Tom Tom Solo
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Artie Shaw
St. Louis Blues
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Begin The Beguine
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Frenesi
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Roy Eldridge
Stardust
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All of Me
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On the Sunny Side of the Street
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Jack Teagarden
Basin Street Blues
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Body & Soul
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St. James Infirmary
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Bobby Goldsboro (1968 produced a lot of good & even great music; and this)
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The Temptations
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So, the floor is yours compadres, whassup?
Crossposted from caucus 99%