Monday OT: July 22 is Pi Approximation Day

July 22 is day 203 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Pungenday, Confusion 57, 3185 YOLD (discordian), And let us not forget 13.0.6.11.17 by the Mayan Long Count Hokay, elsewhere 07-22-2019 (7/22) is written 22-07-2019 (22/7) and 22/7 is a classic early approximation of Pi that possibly even predated pie. Ergo, Pi Approximation Day.

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7-22-1209 brought us the opening salvoes of the Albigensian Crusade (or Cathar genocide) in the form of the first military action of said crusade, the Massacre at Béziers. It seems that a bunch of European Christians were sufficiently scandalized by the corrupt and dissolute lifestyles so prevalent among the Catholic clergy in Languedoc that they began preaching and acting out heretical anti-materialist reformist doctrines. Such satanic deviation from church practices clearly could not be tolerated and Pope Innocent III ordered them to be exterminated, which they were. Naturally, this was facilitated by the fact that the Pope offered their lands and goods to their murderers as a reward. A lot of people think that the Crusades were strictly about waging war on Islam, but there were numerous European crusades aimed at pagans, heretics, apostates, and others with imperfect rituals and doctrines.

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Katharine Lee Bates was so inspired by the view from Pike's Peak that she wrote America the beautiful. Pike not only failed to summit the mountain, but he never heard the song either. Such is life

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Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...  

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On this day in history:  

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1209 – Massacre at Béziers, the start of the Cathar genocide at the hands of the Catholic Church and its tools 1598 – The Merchant of Venice was entered on the Stationers’ Register, a royal licensing scheme 1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific, the first recorded transcontinental crossing 1893 – Katharine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful 1946 – The Irgun bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem because they thought the Britisn were foot dragging

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Born this day in: 1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, physicist, first known person to die while/from experimenting with electricity 1713 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect, designed France's Pantheon (which has an awesome fiew from the top) 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, first successful use of parallas for a sun to star distance 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, it's best that you know no more, really. 1849 – Emma Lazarus, poet, educator and activist, best known for the sonnet "The New Colossus" 1890 – Rose Kennedy 1936 – Don Patterson, organist 1937 – Chuck Jackson, singer and songwriter 1941 – Estelle Bennett, singer (Ronettes) 1941 – George (no relation to Bill) Clinton, singer, songwriter, and producer, Dr. Funkenstein 1943 – Bobby (no relation to General) Sherman, singer 1944 – Rick Davies, singer, songwriter, keyboard player 1947 – Don Henley, singer, songwriter, drummer 1951 – Richard Bennett, guitarist and producer 1963 – Emily Saliers, singer, songwriter, musician and Indigo Girl  

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Died this day in: 1934 – John Dillinger, businessman 1967 – Carl Sandburg, poet and historian 2004 – Sacha Distel, singer and guitarist 2005 – Eugene Record, singer, songwriter, and producer. Chi-Lites 2010 – Phillip Walker, singer and guitarist  

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: Pi Approximation Day, Ratcatcher's Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well,

Georg Wilhelm Richmann

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Don Patterson

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Chuck Jackson

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Estelle Bennett

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George (no relation to Bill) Clinton

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Bobby (no relation to General) Sherman

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Rick Davies

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Don Henley

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Richard Bennett

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Emily Saliers

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Sacha Distel

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Eugene Record

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Phillip Walker

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Bonus musica:

Image is Pizza Pi  

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It's an open thread, so do your thing

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