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View ArticleSunday Open Thread: September 24th is National Punctuation Day !!
World History this day 0622 -- Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina 1674 -- The second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, an early Indian nationalist...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; September 25 was the Battle of Stamford Bridge
September 25th is the 268th day of the year. There are 97 days left.-Today's number is 25-25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors. It is odd, like the square of every prime other than 2.25 is the...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - September 2017 Yard Report
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 1st is International Music Day
World History this day 0331 BC -- Alexander the Great whupped Darius III at Gaugamela. This was a BFD 1898 -- The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration was founded, oh woe, oh woe...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; October 2 is the International Day of Non-Violence
October 2nd is the 275th day of the year. There are 90 days left.-Today's number is 2-2 is the smallest even integer, and defines the even integers (they are those divisible by 2) Finite multiples of 2...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 8th is the Feast of San Ernesto among Bolivian...
World History this day 1480 -- A standoff on the Ugra river between Akhmat Khan and Grand Duke Ivan III of Russia. *** 1856 -- The Second Opium War between China and assorted western powers began 1912...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; October 9 is World Post Day
October 9th is the 283rd day of the year. There are 83 days left. What symmetry.-Today's number is 9-9 is the largest single digit integer 9 is the square of a prime and is the second lowest such...
View ArticleDays of Action, October 23 - October 25
I just got an e-mail from RAN about a proposed 3 day "Day of Action" under the imprimatur of “Mazaska Talks”, an indigenous led coalition of activists and organizations. The idea is to protest banking...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 15th is Breast Health Day in Europe
World History this day1529 -- The Austrians clobbered the Turks at Siege of Vienna 1894 -- Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully arrested for spying. 1904 -- The Russian Baltic Fleet set sail for Port Arthur...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; October 16 is World Food Day
October 9th is the 289th day of the year. There are 76 days left.-Today's number is 16-16 = 4 squared and 2 to the fourth or 4**2 and 2**4. Coincidence? I don't think so. (I know of no other number...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 22nd is INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY
World History this day1859 – Spain declared war on Morocco. 1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the 3 day previous annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy 1943 – The RAF launched a firestorm air raid on...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; Mole Day starts at 6:02 am
October 23 is the 296th day of the year, there are 69 days left-Today's number is 23-23 is The 9th prime and the sum of 3 consecutive primes; 5, 7 and 11 The atomic number of Vanadium The number of...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: October 29nd is World Stroke Day
World History this day539 BC -- Cyrus the Great entered Babylon and allowed the Jews to return to their land 0312 -- Constantine the Great entered Rome after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge 1390 --...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - October 2017 Yard Report
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; 10/30 is International Orthopaedic Nurses Day
October 30 is the 303rd day of the year, there are 62 days left-Today's number is 30-30 is 30 is the sum of the first four square numbers: 1+4+9+16 30 = 5 x 6; half of the base for the decimal system x...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: November 5 is Bank Transfer Day
World History this day1605 -- Guy Fawkes was arrested. 1911 -- Italy annexed Tripoli and Cyrenaica (to help them, no doubt) 2006 -- Saddam Hussein, deposed by a US war of aggression, was sentenced to...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; November 6 is Malaria Day in the Americas
November 6 is the 310th day of the year, there are 55 days left-Today's number is 6-6 is 6 is the sum of its proper divisors (1, 2, & 3), which makes it a perfect number. It is the smallest perfect...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: November 12 is World Pneumonia Day
World History this day1793 -- The first Mayor of Paris, was guillotined. 1918 -- Austria became a republic. 1927 -- Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party. 1956 -- Morocco, Sudan and...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; November 13 is World Kindness Day
November 13 is the 317th day of the year, there are 48 days left-Today's number is 13-13 is 13 is a prime number, it is the 6th prime13 is also a prime if the digits are reversed (31)13 is a...
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