So we're looking at 25 this Monday
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. |
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25 BCE was 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. But, was he flying solo? |
| On this day in: |
| 41 | - The Roman Senate accepted Claudius as Emperor. |
| 1533 | - Henry VIII secretly married Anne Boleyn, but not because she had 3 breasts. |
| 1791 | - The British Parliament passed the Constitutional Act of 1791 splitting the Province of Quebec into Upper Canada down along the top of the Great Lakes and Lower Canada stretching on up into the Arctic. Don't ask me. |
| 1890 | - Nellie Bly completed her 72 day trip around the world |
| 1915 | - Alexander Graham Bell called Thomas Watson in S.F. from NY, starting transcontinental phone service. Direct Distance Dialing would not be reintroduced until 11/10/1951 due to requests from a woman named Ernestine |
| 1945 | - The Battle of the Bulge ended. |
| 1946 | - The UMW rejoined the AFL. |
| 1971 | - Charles Manson and three others were found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. |
| 1971 | - Idi Amin deposed Milton Obote in a coup and became president of Uganda. |
| 1996 | - Billy Bailey was the last person (so far) executed by hanging in the USA. |
| 2011 | - The Egyptian revolution started |
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YouTube Video| Born on this day in: |
| 17 - | Messalina, who became the wife of Claudius (supra). |
| 1627 - | Robert Boyle, an Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist. You learned PV=k (or didn't) |
| 1736 - | Joseph-Louis Lagrange, an Italian-French mathematician and astronomer. Sci-Fi would be greatly diminished without Lagrange points. |
| 1759 - | Robert Burns, a Scottish poet and songwriter. Can't have Hogmany without "Auld Lang Syne" and who can forget "Scots Wha Hae" |
| 1796 - | William MacGillivray, Scottish ornithologist and biologist. See MacGillivray's Warbler. |
| 1874 - | W. Somerset Maugham, a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Did the definitive "Kipling's Best". |
| 1882 - | Virginia Woolf, an English author, critic and utterly terrifying woman. |
| 1899 - |
Sleepy John Estes, an American singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 1915 - |
Ewan MacColl, an English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor |
| 1927 - |
Antônio Carlos Jobim, a Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist |
| 1928 - | Eduard Shevardnadze, a Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia |
| 1929 - |
Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer |
| 1938 - |
Etta James, an American singer-songwriter born Jamesetta Hawkins |
| 1981 - |
Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress |
| Deaths this day in: |
| 477 - | Genseric, king of the Vandals. Caputured Rome and Carthge. |
| 1067 - | Emperor Yingzong of Song, but a song I've never heard. |
| 1947 - | Al Capone, a mob boss and tax evader. Sent killer Valentines. |
| Holy Days, Holidays, Saints Days, Celebrations and suchwhat |
| Scotsland |
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Dydd Santes Dwynwen, a Christian feast day in Wales |
| National Police Day in Egypt |
| National Voters' Day in India |
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So, the floor is yours compadres, whassup?
Crossposted from caucus 99%