| Like 7 and its multiples, 11 and its multiples generate fun fractions (more later) |
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| 11 is the smallest positive integer with a 3 syllable name |
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| 11 is the 5th prime and the smallest 2 digit prime |
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| If a number is divisible by 11, so is its reverse, for example: 165 and 561 |
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| if no 2 consecutive digits of a number add up to more than nine, then multiplying it by eleven generates a number which is the reverse of the product of the original number's reverse multiplied by 11. Example: 15 x 11=165 and 51 x 11 = 651 |
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11 goes into 99 exactly 9 times. As a result, the decimal expansion of any common fraction with 11 in the denominator will be a two digit infinite repeat. 1/11 = .09 repeated, 2/11 = .18 repeated, 3/11 = .27 repeated, 4/11 = .36 repeated, etc. The repeating 2 digits are multiples of the numerator and .09 for numerators less than 11.
| An 11 sided polygon is a hendecagon or an undecagon |
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| 11 is significant in Thelema |
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| 11 is a master number in Numerology |
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| 11 is a come out win at craps |
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| 11 is sodium |
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| There are 11 players per side on the field at one time in soccer, cricket, field hockey and US style football |
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| Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring", has 11 consecutive repetitions of the same chord. |
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| Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven |
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| There is a Grateful Dead song named "The Eleven" |
| 11 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Tubero and Maximus |
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| Nero Claudius Drusus was victorious at the Battle of the Lupia River and then built fortresses at near Bonn, Dorsten, Haltern, and Oberaden |
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| 11 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Taurus |
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| Artabanus III of the Arsacid Dynasty became ruler of Parthia |
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| 1919 | The I.L.O. was founded |
| 1945 | U.S. troops liberated Buchenwald |
| 1957 | The UK agreed to self-rule for Singapore |
| 1961 | Adolph Eichman’s trial began |
| 1968 | LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 - quite a law, look it up |
| 1970 | Apollo 13 was launched |
| 1979 | Idi Amin was deposed |
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| 1374 | Roger Mortimer, the 4th Earl of March. Richard the Second’s heir, figures in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” --”But I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!' Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him”
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| 1889 |
Nick LaRocca, a trumpet player & bandleader |
| 1912 |
John Levy, a bass player who became the first African American manager for pop and jazz musicians |
| 1930 | Anton LaVey, a controversial religionist |
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| 1926 | Luther Burbank, a botanist who never lived in Burbank, CA |
| 2001 |
Sandy Bull, a multi instrumentalist </td>
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| 2006 |
June Pointer, a singer, part of a sister act |
| 2007 | Kurt Vonnegut, an author |
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| I declare this to be “Invent Your Own Holiday Day” |
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When this posts I’ll still be be at El Capitan State Beach, don’t know if there’s any phone reception there or not, so I might or might not drop in. All the same, play nicely among yourselves.
Crossposted from Caucus 99%