Sunday Open Thread: November 19 is Women's Entrepreneurship Day
World History this day1493 -- Columbus landed on what was to become Puerto Rico 1942 -- Zhukov launched counterattacks at Stalingrad which led to a disastrous German defeat. 1950 -- Ike became Supreme...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance
November 20 is the 324th day of the year, there are 41 days left-Today's number is 20-An icosahedron has 20 faces A dodecahedron has 20 vertices. 20 is the atomic number of calcium. "what's your 20?"...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: November 26 is International Women Human Rights Defenders...
strong>World History this day1778 -- Captain Cook became the first European to visit Maui. 1917 -- The Manchester Guardian published the Sykes-Picot Agreement 1942 -- The first meeting of the...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; November 27 is the anniversary of the Washita Massacre
November 27 is the 331st day of the year, there are 34 days left-Today's number is 27-27 is a perfect cube, 3^3. 27 is the atomic number of cobalt. 27 is the weight of the only stable isotope of...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - November 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: December 3 is United Nations' International Day of...
It should be noted that humans do not have disabilities, they have impairments. The societies and cultures in which they live are corrupt and dysfunctional and create disabilities for those with...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; December 4 is National Cookie Day
December 4 is the 338th day of the year, there are 27 days left-Today's number is 4-4 is the second squared number 4 is the smallest squared prime 4 is the only even squared prime 4 is both 2 doubled...
View ArticleHonduras Calling
Hello? Is this the State Department? We have a collect call from a Mr. Hernandez requesting a repeat of the traditional US support for right wing coups in Central and South America. Hello? Is the...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: December 10 is Human Rights Day
World History this day 1510 -- The Portuguese conquered Goa 1861 -- Vietnamese anti-colonial guerrillas sunk the French L'Esperance 1936 -- Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication. 1948 -- The...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; December 11 International Mountain Day.
December 11 is the 345th day of the year, there are 20 days left-Today's number is 11-11 and its multiples generate fun fractions (more later)11 is the smallest positive integer with a 3 syllable name...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: December 17 is International Day to End Violence Against...
World History this day497 BC -- The first Saturnalia was celebrated Woo Hoo 1819 -- Simon Bolivar declared the independence of Gran Colombia 1944 -- The Malmedy massacre (of US POWs - Battle of the...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; December 18 is International Migrants Day
December 18 is the 352nd day of the year, there are 13 days left-Today's number is 18-18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later) 18 is...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - December 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: December 24 is Xmas Eve + How to Wear a Man Bun
World History this day1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s 1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began 1941 -- Benghazi...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; December 25 is Christmas
December 25 is the 359th day of the year, there are 6 days left-Today's number is 25-25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors25 is the smallest square that is the sum of two smaller squares (9...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: December 31 is New Year's Eve
That's it, the last day of the year, all she wrote, as they sayWorld History this day1600 – The British East India Company was chartered 1857 – Queen Victoria picked Ottawa to be Canada's capitol 1951...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; January 1 is Giordano Bruno's Birthday
January 1 is the 1st day of the year, there are 364 days left-Today's number is 1-One is the first non zero number - really? Try "integer" One is also the first odd number - ditto One is the...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: January 7th is NY Anti-Democracy Day (Unofficial)**
World History this day1558 -- France took Calais from England. 1942 -- The start of the siege of the Bataan Peninsula 1959 -- The US recognized Fidel's government in Cuba 1979 -- The Vietnamese drove...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread; January 8 is typing day, woo hoo! **
January 8 is the 8th day of the year, there are 357 days left **- ** It is also the earliest day upon which Virginia's celebration of Lee-Jackson Day can occur, fwiw.Today's number is 8-8 is 2 cubed...
View ArticleSunday Open Thread: January 14th is the Medieval Feast of the Ass**
** History This feast may represent a Christian adaptation of the pagan feast, Cervulus, integrating it with the donkey in the nativity story.[2] In connection with the Biblical stories, the...
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