1970 Nebula Award Nominees

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Comments: 1970 was an amazing year for the Nebula Awards. There are very few award cycles in which I find ever winner to be completely deserving of their honors. The 1970 Nebula Awards is one of those cases. Ursula K. Le Guin won the Best Novel Award for her brilliant examination of gender in The Left Hand of Darkness. Harlan Ellison won the Best Novella Award for his brilliant story A Boy and His Dog, which was later made into a movie starring Don Johnson, Samuel R. Delany won for his deconstruction of the economics of crime in Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, and Robert Silverberg's deeply creepy Passengers won the Best Short Story Award.

My love for the slate of winners of the 1970 Nebula Awards does not mean that I don't think that many of the other nominees were also brilliant stories. Almost all of them clearly were. And the depth of quality that is found in the Nebula Award nominees is, in my opinion, a testament to the high quality that the Nebula Awards achieved.

Best Novel

Winner:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Isle of the Dead by Roger Zelazny
The Jagged Orbit by John Brunner
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg

Best Novella

Winner:
A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
Dramatic Mission by Anne McCaffrey
Probable Cause by Charles L. Harness

Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber (found in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

To Jorslem by Robert Silverberg

Best Novelette

Winner:

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany (reviewed in More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Volume II)

Other Nominees:
The Big Flash by Norman Spinrad
Deeper than the Darkness by Gregory Benford
Nine Lives by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Short Story

Winner:
Passengers by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain by James Tiptree, Jr.
The Man Who Learned Loving by Theodore Sturgeon
Not Long Before the End by Larry Niven
Shattered Like a Glass Goblin by Harlan Ellison

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1970 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Heicon '70 in Heidelberg, Germany.

Comments: Just two years after Anne McCaffrey became the first woman to win the Hugo Award , another woman, this time Ursula K. Le Guin, took home the big prize with her novel The Left Hand of Darkness. It is an indication of how much of a boys' club the science fiction community was that these achievements by female writers are considered significant even now, and yet Samuel R. Delany's win as (I believe) the first African-American winner of a Hugo Award for his story Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones was such a non-event as to be almost forgotten now. (The milestone having been forgotten, not Delany's excellent story). Although Silverberg didn't win any Hugo awards this year, he did pull off the impressive feat of having works nominated in all three of the written fiction categories.

In 1970, the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation took an unusual, but not unexpected turn as the statue was given to "The News Coverage of Apollo XI". Apparently the Worldcon that year was understandably swept up with moon landing fever. The question that comes to my mind is who actually collected the award? Did Walter Cronkite show up at the Worldcon to get himself a Hugo?

Best Novel

Winner:
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Other Nominees:
Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
Macroscope by Piers Anthony
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg

Best Novella

Winner:

Ship of Shadows by Fritz Leiber (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Other Nominees:
A Boy and His Dog by Harlan Ellison
Dramatic Mission by Anne McCaffrey
To Jorslem by Robert Silverberg
We All Die Naked by James Blish

Best Short Story

Winner:

Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany (reviewed in More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Volume II)

Other Nominees:
Deeper than the Darkness by Gregory Benford
Not Long Before the End by Larry Niven
Passengers by Robert Silverberg
Winter's King by Ursula K. Le Guin

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
News coverage of Apollo XI

Other Nominees:
The Bed-Sitting Room
The Illustrated Man
The Immortal (complete series)
Marooned

Best Professional Magazine

Winner:
Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Edward L. Ferman

Other Nominees:
Amazing Stories edited by Ted White

Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.

Galaxy edited by Frederik Pohl and Ejler Jakobsson
New Worlds edited by Michael Moorcock

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Frank Kelly Freas

Other Nominees:
Vaughn Bodé
Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
Jack Gaughan
Eddie Jones
Jeff Jones

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis

Other Nominees:
Beabohema edited by Frank Lunney
Locus edited by Charles Brown
Riverside Quarterly edited by Leland Sapiro
Speculation edited by Peter R. Weston

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Wilson (Bob) Tucker

Other Nominees:
Piers Anthony
Charles Brown
Richard Delap
Richard E. Geis

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Tim Kirk

Other Nominees:
Alicia Austin
George Barr
Steve Fabian
Bill Rotsler

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Events

/This page lists all of the event related posts that I have written. These are mostly announcements that I will be attending a particular convention or author appearance, or write-ups that I have put together after I have gone to such an event. Essentially anything that involves me writing about going to some function of some kind will be listed here.

08/09/17: Sophia Rey Tiberius Pound, August 8^th, 2017
08/31/16: MidAmeriCon II, August 17^th - 21^st, 2016: Saturday and Sunday
08/25/16: MidAmeriCon II, August 17^th - 21^st, 2016: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
06/01/16: Balticon 50, May 27^th - 30^th, 2016

10/14/15: CapClave, October 9^th - 11^th, 2015

09/16/15: The Doubleclicks, Molly Lewis, and Joseph Scrimshaw at Jammin' Java, September 10^th, 2015 and the Black Cat, September 15^th, 2015

08/05/15: Gen Con, July 30^th - August 2^nd, 2015

08/28/14: Gen Con, August 13^th - 17^th, 2014: Saturday and Sunday

08/27/14: Gen Con, August 13^th - 17^th, 2014: Friday

08/26/14: Gen Con, August 13^th - 17^th, 2014: Wednesday and Thursday

04/09/14: The Doubleclicks and Sarah Donner at the Way Station, April 4^th, 2014, and The Doubleclicks and Molly Lewis at Jammin' Java, April 7^th, 2014

09/02/13: Gen Con, August 14^th - 18^th, 2013: Saturday and Sunday
08/29/13: Gen Con, August 14^th - 18^th, 2013: Friday
08/21/13: Gen Con, August 14^th - 18^th, 2013: Wednesday and Thursday
06/18/13: The Doubleclicks at ThinkGeek, June 13^th, 2013
07/13/11: InConJunction Recap: July 1^st - 3^rd, 2011
06/26/11: InConjunction: July 1^st - 3^rd, 2011 in Indianapolis
05/10/11: Nevada Rose Book Release Party
04/18/11: A.S. King at Hooray for Books!

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Follow Friday

This is the list of all of the Follow Friday posts resulting from my participation in the Follow Friday meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. When I started participating in the meme, I began numbering my Follow Friday posts in order to differentiate them from one another, and that morphed into coming up with something interesting about every number I used.

Oddly, I skipped the number seventy-four. To make up for this oversight, I inserted 74 in place of 174 and 174 in place of 274. When I get to 374, I may insert 274 in 174's place. Maybe I won't. We'll see. This blog has also been the featured blogger on this meme once, resulting in my Follow Friday Recap.

02/17/17: The Roman Tetrarchy Was Established by Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus, and Galerius in 293 A.D.

02/10/17: A/57/292 Is a United Nations Report on the Human Rights of Immigrants

02/03/17: 291 Was a Magazine Published from 1915 to 1916 That Was Named After Stieglitz's Art Gallery of the Same Name

01/27/17: Chapter 17, Line 290 of the Odyssey Describes Ulysses Finding His Dog Argos After Twenty Years Away from Ithaca

01/20/17: Strip 289 of xkcd is titled Alone

01/13/17: Lodge 288 of the Freemasons Covers the Ashburn-Sterling, Virginia Area

01/06/17: 287 Is Shorthand for the Intel Math Coprocessor to the 80286

12/30/16: The Emperor Diocletian Divided the Roman Empire into Two Parts in 286 A.D.

12/23/16: Roman Emperor Carinus Was Killed in 285 A.D.; This Is Getting Predictable

12/16/16: Roman Emperor Numerian Died in 284 A.D.; This Was Not a Good Era to Be a Roman Emperor

12/09/16: Roman Emperor Carus Died in 283 A.D.; He Was Emperor for Less Than a Year

12/02/16: Roman Emperor Probus Was Killed by His Own Troops in 282 A.D., So He Didn't Last Long Either

11/25/16: Emperor Probus Had the Usurper Proculus Put to Death in 281 A.D. (I Told You Proculus Didn't Last Long)

11/18/16: Proculus Declared Himself Roman Emperor in 280 A.D. It Didn't Last Long

11/11/16: Every Positive Integer Is the Sum of at Most 279 Eighth Powers

11/04/16: OGE Form 278 Is a Public Financial Disclosure Form Some U.S. Executive Branch Officials Are Required to File Annually

10/28/16: The Grand Canyon Is 277 River Miles Long

10/21/16: The Roman Empire Had Three Different Emperors in 276 A.D.

10/14/16: Ptolomey II Founded the Museum of Alexandria in 275 B.C.

10/07/16: The Peugeot Type 174 Was a Sedan Manufactured Between 1923 and 1926

09/30/16: Absolute Zero Temperature Is Approximately Negative 273 Degrees Celsius

09/23/16: 272 Is the Sum of Four Consecutive Prime Numbers

09/16/16: Construction of the Aurelian Walls Surrounding Rome Commenced in 271 A.D.

09/02/16: A Candidate Currently Needs 270 Electoral College Votes to Win the U.S. Presidency

08/26/16: Saint Valentine Was (Possibly) Executed in 269 A.D.

08/12/16: 40 CFR Part 268 Outlines Federal Land Disposal Restrictions

08/05/16: There Is Almost Nothing Interesting About the Number 267

07/29/16: 266 Is a Self Number

07/22/16: Archimedes Designed the Archimedes Screw in 265 B.C.

07/15/16: The First Punic War Started in 264 B.C.

07/08/16: 263 Is an Irregular Prime and a Balanced Prime

07/01/16: The Poet Philemon Died in 262 B.C.

06/24/16: 261 Was Kathrine Switzer's Bib Number When She Became the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon

06/17/16: Benjamin Franklin Created the Franklin Magic Square with a Magic Constant of 260

06/10/16: The Second Syrian War Started in 259 B.C.

06/03/16: Two-Hundred and Fifty-Eight Is Six Cubed Plus Six Squared Plus Six

05/27/16: The Battle of Tyndarus Between Rome and Carthage Was Fought in 257 B.C.

05/20/16: There Were 256 Men in a Syntagma in Alexander's Macedonian Army

05/13/16: 255 Is the Maximum Value Representable by an 8-Digit Binary Number

05/06/16: Team 254 Is a High School Robotics Team from San Francisco

04/29/16: 253 Is a Very Quirky Novel by Geoff Ryman

04/22/16: There Are 252 Ways to Place Four Pieces on a Connect Four Board

04/15/16: Two Roman Emperors Were Killed in the Battle of Abritus in 251 A.D.

04/08/16: 250 Things You Should Know About Writing Is a Book by Chuck Wendig

04/01/16: Barrows v. Jackson, 346 U.S. 249 (1953), Held That Race-Based Real Property Covenants Violated the Fourteenth Amendment

03/25/16: The City of Rome Celebrated It's One-Thousandth Anniversary in 248 A.D.

03/18/16: There Are Approximately 247 Acres in a Square Kilometer

03/11/16: 246 Is the Smallest Number N for Which It Is Known That There Is an Infinite Number of Prime Gaps No Larger Than N

03/04/16: 245T Is a Common Abbreviation for the Herbicide 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid

02/28/16: The Youngest Sole Roman Emperor Gordian II Was Killed in 244 A.D.

02/19/16: A Single Venusian Day Is as Long as 243 Earth Days

01/01/16: 18 U.S.C. § 242 Prohibits Depriving Someone of Their Rights Under Color of Law

12/25/15: 241 Is Reel Big Fish Song, With 241 as the Only Lyric

12/18/15: There Were 240 Pence in a British Pound Until 1971

12/11/15: The Saint Petersburg Lyceum 239 Is a Famous School Specialized in Math and Physics

12/04/15: Uranium-238 Is the Most Common isotope of Uranium

11/27/15: The Two-Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Square Pyramidal Number Is the Sum of Two Other Square Pyramidal Numbers

11/20/15: Eratosthenes Became the Head Librarian of the Library of Alexandria in 236 B.C.

11/13/15: Two Hundred Thirty-Five. That Is All.

11/06/15: Cato the Elder Was Born in 234 B.C.

10/30/15: The Giant Panda Mei Xiang Weighs About 233 Pounds

10/23/15: There Are Exactly 232 Different Eight-Vertex Connected Indifference Graphs

10/16/15: Pacific 231 Is a Short Film About the Steam Locomotive of the Same Name

10/09/15: 47 U.S.C. § 230 Provides Immunity for Online Publishers

10/02/15: In Fantastic Four Issue 229 the Heroes Fight a Villain Who Is Basically a Black Hole

09/25/15: The 228 Incident Was an Anti-Government Uprising in Taiwan That Led to the White Terror

09/18/15: Cormac mac Airt Became High King of Ireland in 227 A.D.

09/11/15: An Earthquake Destroyed the Colossus of Rhodes in 226 B.C.

09/04/15: When Garth Brooks Was Calling Baton Rouge, He Was Calling Area Code 225

08/28/15: King Ardashir I Destroyed the Parthian Empire in 224 A.D.

08/21/15: 223 Is the Only Number to Require 37 Fifth Positive Powers in Waring's Problem

08/14/15: Room 222 Aired on ABC from 1969 to 1974

08/07/15: Sherlock Holmes Lives at 221B Baker Street

07/24/15: "Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes." Jack Butler from Mr. Mom

07/17/15: Case 219 Is a Movie Based on the Walter Dean Myers Book Shooter

07/10/15: It Takes 218 Votes to Achieve a Majority in the U.S. House of Representatives

07/03/15: 217 Is a Non-Repetitive Kaprekar Number, But Only in Binary

06/26/15: 216 Is the Smallest Cube That Is the Sum of Three Cubes

06/19/15: 215 Is the Dewey Decimal Classification for Science and Religion

06/12/15: In Terminator 2, Sarah Connor Says There Are 214 Bones in a Normal Human Skeleton

06/05/15: Syracuse Used War Machines Designed by Archimedes to Repel the Romans in 213 B.C.

05/29/15: Water Boils At 212 Degrees Fahrenheit

05/22/15: Roman Emperor Septimus Severus and His Son Geta Both Died in 211 A.D.

05/15/15: Qui Shi Huang's Terra Cotta Army Was Completed in 210 B.C.

05/08/15: Germany Designed the Type 209 Submarine Exclusively for Export

05/01/15: Four Years Is 208 Weeks

04/24/15: 18 U.S.C. § 207 Restricts What Former Federal Employees Can Do

04/17/15: There Are 206 Bones in the Average Adult Human Body

04/11/15: The Peugeot 205 Was a Supermini Car Produced Between 1983 and 1998

04/03/15: Philip the Arab was Born in 204 A.D.

03/27/15: Section 203 of the Voting Right Act Helps Protect the Rights of Minority Language Voters

03/20/15: Rocky Balboa Weighed 202 Pounds When He Faced Thunderlips

03/13/15: 11001001 Is an Episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

03/06/15: You Passed Go. Collect $200

02/27/15: Pope Zephyrinus Became Pontiff in 199 A.D. Why Don't Popes Have Cool Names These Days?

02/20/15: X-Men: The 198 Was a Limited Series Set in the Marvel Universe

02/13/15: 197 Is a Prime Number

02/06/15: The 196 Palindrome Quest Is the Search to Determine If 196 Is a Lychrel Number

01/30/15: Commodus Was Deified by the Roman Senate in 195 A.D.

01/23/15: 194 Prokne Is a Main Belt Asteroid

01/16/15: Most of the Defendants in the "Trial of the 193" Were Acquitted

01/09/15: Herodotus Says That 192 Athenians Were Killed at the Battle of Marathon

01/02/15: At Least Five Plane Crashes Were Numbered Flight 191

12/26/14: Everclear is 190 Proof

12/19/14: USA-189 Was an Experimental Satellite Launched in 2006

12/12/14: NGC 188 Is a Five Billion Year Old Open Cluster in the Constellation Cepheus

12/05/14: Count von Count's Favorite Number Is 187²

11/28/14: Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 Performed a Fully Automated Docking/ in 1967

11/21/14: Kevin St. Onge Threw a Playing Card 185 Feet, 1 Inch

11/14/14: 184 Is the Sum of Four Consecutive Prime Numbers

11/07/14: 26 U.S.C. § 183 Limits the Amount of Losses That Can Be Deducted from Taxes for Hobby-Related Losses

10/31/14: Blink-182 Is Concerned About All the Small Things

10/24/14: The Destroyer Escort in The Enemy Below Is the U.S.S. Hayes DE-181

10/17/14: 180 Is the Highest Score in One Turn in Darts

10/10/14: 179 Is Not a Palindromic Number in Any Base

10/04/14: Arp 178 Is a Triplet of Galaxies: NGC 56, NGC 5614, and NGC 5615

09/26/14: Martina Navratilova Has 177 Tennis Titles

09/19/14: Ai Weiwei Will Showcase 176 Lego Portraits at an Exhibition in Alcatraz

09/12/14: Paragraph 175 Is a Documentary About Nazi Persecution of Gay Men and Women

09/05/14: A Typhoon Has Sustained Winds of More Than 74 Miles Per Hour

08/29/14: SCP-173 Is a Creature Created by the SCP Foundation

08/22/14: 172 Baucis Is an Asteroid Discovered by French Astronomer Alphonse Borrelly

08/15/14: 171 Is a Triangular Number

08/08/14: Marcus Aurelius Wrote the First Book of Meditations in 170 A.D.

08/01/14: Giliese 169 Is a Star in the Constellation of Taurus

07/25/14: There Are 168 Hours in a Week

07/18/14: The Galaxy IC-167 Appears to be Interacting With the Galaxy NGC-694

07/11/14: The USS Alcedo SP-166 Was the First American Vessel Lost in World War I

07/04/14: The Blériot-165 Was a Biplane Airliner

06/22/14: The Romans Abandoned the Antonine Wall in 164 A.D.

06/20/14: The Me 163 Komet Was the Only Rocket-Powered Fighter Aircraft Ever Put into Operation

06/13/14: xkcd 162 Is About Angular Momentum and Love

06/08/14: Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Became Roman Co-Emperors in 161 A.D.

06/01/14: You Can Use 160 Characters in an SMS Text Message

05/23/14: In Roman Numerals, 159 Is CLIX

05/16/14: There Are 158 Nations in the World Chess Federation

05/10/14: 157 Riverside Avenue Is an REO Speedwagon Song

05/02/14: The Original Twilight Zone Television Show Ran for 156 Episodes

04/25/14: The Romantic Opera Ivanhoe Ran for 155 Performances in the 1890s

04/18/14: Virginia Route 154 Is a State Highway in Covington, Virginia

04/11/14: No One Really Knows Why the Gospel of John Specifies 153 Fishes in the Miraculous Catch

04/04/14: In Fallout 2 the Chosen One Starts with $152 in Cash

03/28/14: There Were 151 Pokémon in the Original Set

03/21/14: A Professor's Cube Has 150 Squares

03/15/14: The Supreme Court Decided Tomatoes Were Vegetables in Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304

03/07/14: Dunbar's Number Is 148

02/28/14: 147 Is the Highest Possible Break in Snooker

02/21/14: In 146 B.C. Scipio Aemilianus Breached the Walls of Carthage, Ending the Third Punic War

02/14/14: Botswana Is the Setting for the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series, and Is 145^th in World Population

02/07/14: Bilbo Invited 144 Hobbits to His Eleventy-First Birthday Party (Which Was Also Frodo's Thirty-Third)

01/31/14: Mister Rogers Kept His Weight at Exactly 143 Pounds

01/24/14: There Are 142 Staircases at Hogwarts

01/17/14: K-141 Sank in the Barents Sea

01/10/14: 140 Characters Is the Maximum Length of a Tweet

01/03/14: Operation Entebbe Was to Rescue the Passengers of Air France Flight 139

12/26/13: The Hymn to Apollo Was Written in 138 B.C.
12/20/13: There Are 137 Atoms in a Chlorophyll Molecule

12/13/13: The BBC's Who's Line Is It Anyway? Ran for 136 Episodes

12/07/13: Stony Plain 135 Indian Reserve Is Home to the Enoch Cree Nation

11/29/13: The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded in the United States Was 134 Degrees Fahrenheit

11/22/13: OMB Circular A-133 Is a Guide to Auditing Federal Grants

11/15/13: The First Seimometer Was Invented by Zhang Heng in 132 A.D.

11/09/13: 131 Is a Full Reptend Prime, but Only in Base 10

11/01/13: The Temple of Olympian Zeus Was Completed in 130 A.D.

10/25/13: Galen Was Born in 129 A.D.
10/18/13: ASCII Has Definitions for 128 Characters

10/11/13: In 127 A.D. Carpocrates Decided Private Property Ownership Was Un-Christian

10/04/13: Gilgamesh Ruled Over Uruk for 126 years

09/27/13: 125 Is the Sum of the Squares of 10 and 5, and the Sum of the Squares of 11 and 2

09/20/13: 124 Is an Untouchable Number
09/13/13: Mitch Kapor Became a Millionaire by Designing Lotus 1-2-3
09/07/13: Jeanne Calment Was 122 Years Old When She Died
08/30/13: A Chinese Checkers Board Has 121 Holes

08/23/13: The Teutonic Tribes That Invaded England After the Romans Left Referred to the Number 120 as the Long Hundred

08/09/13: Port 119 Is the Default for Unencrypted NNTP Connections

08/02/13: Public Law 111-118 Was the Department of Defense Appropriation for Fiscal Year 2010

07/26/13: The Mystery of Element 117 Is a Science Fiction Story by Milton Smith

07/19/13: The Hundred Years War Was Actually One-Hundred and Sixteen Years Long

07/05/13: The Atomic Number of Ununpentium Is 115

06/28/13: Cadmium-114 Has a Half-Life of 14.1 Years

06/22/13: The Current Congress Is the 113^th Congress

06/14/13: The Atomic Number of Copernicum is 112

06/07/13: J.R.R. Tolkien Coined the Word "Eleventy"

05/31/13: 17 U.S.C.§ 109 Supports the Existence of Used Book Stores in the United States

05/17/13: Ulysses Killed All 108 of Penelope's Unwelcome Suitors
05/03/13: There Are Currently One Hundred and Seven Nobel Laureates in Literature
04/27/13: 17 U.S.C. § 106 Protects Exclusive Rights in Copyright
04/19/13: The Trajan Bridge Was Built in 105 A.D.

04/12/13: There Were One Hundred and Four Corinthian Columns in the Temple of Olympian Zeus

04/04/13: The Ice Truck Killer's Calling Card Was the Number 103
03/29/13: The Empire State Building Has One Hundred and Two Floors
03/22/13: Winston Smith Was Sent to Room 101 to Be Tortured With His Greatest Fear
03/15/13: The Hundred Days Campaign Ended With the Battle of Waterloo
03/08/13: Agent 99 Was Played by Barbara Feldon
03/01/13: In 98 A.D. Tacitus Finished Writing the Germania
02/22/13: About 97% of the Water on Earth Is Salt Water
02/15/13: In 96 A.D. Nerva Became the First of the Five Good Emperors
02/08/13: NATO Called the Tupolev TU-95 "The Bear"
02/01/13: The Atomic Number of Plutonium Is Ninety-Four
01/25/13: Quatrevingt-Treize Is a Victor Hugo Novel About the French Revolution

01/18/13: The World's Longest Place Name Has Ninety-Two Characters and Is Spelled Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

01/11/13: Marcus Livius Drusus Was Assassinated in 91 B.C. for Proposing That Roman Allies Be Made Citizens

01/05/13: Sparrowhawk Bound the Dragon Yevaud to Protect the Ninety Isles
12/21/12: One of My Ancestors May Have Been a Sooner in the Land Rush of 1889
12/14/12: In Kill Bill O-Ren Ishii's Gang Was the Crazy 88s
12/09/12: Lincoln Mentioned "Fourscore and Seven Years" in the Gettysburg Address
11/30/12: There Are 86 Metals on the Periodic Table of Elements
11/15/12: NGC 85 Is a Galaxy in Andromeda
11/09/12: Eighty Four Is a Town in Pennsylvania
11/03/12: On Old Televisions 83 Was the Highest UHF Channel
10/26/12: Alchemists Didn't Know That the Atomic Number of Lead Is 82

10/19/12: If You Are Caught Between the Angels of Light and Death, You Might Be in Artemis 81

10/12/12: Phileas Fogg Went Around the World in Eighty Days
10/05/12: Alien and Star Trek: The Motion Picture Were Both Released in 1979
09/29/12: A Typical Tarot Deck Has Seventy-Eight Cards

09/21/12: Seventy-Seven Is the Smallest Positive Integer to Require Five Syllables in English

09/14/12: There Were Seventy-Six Trombones in the Big Parade

09/07/12: At the Third Quarter Quell Katniss Everdeen Participated in the Hunger Games for a Second Time

08/31/12: Dr. Sheldon Cooper Proved That 73 Is the Best Number
08/24/12: Seventy-Two Degrees Fahrenheit Is Room Temperature
08/17/12: The Coolest Airplane in the World Is the SR-71 Blackbird
08/10/12: Psalms 90:10 Measures a Man's Life as Seventy Years

08/03/12: I'll Skip the Obvious "69" Reference and Instead Point Out That I Was Born in 1969

07/29/12: "68 Publishers" Was an Outlet for Exiled Czech and Slovak Authors
07/13/12: Sixty-Seven Is a Lucky Prime
07/06/12: Order 66 Directed the Clone Troopers to Kill the Jedi
06/22/12: The U.S.S. Enterprise is CVN-65
06/15/12: My First Computer Was a Commodore 64
06/08/12: The Offspring of a Donkey and a Horse Has Sixty-Three Chromosomes
06/01/12: Sixty-Two Scared Sigmund Freud
05/25/12: Boudica Rebelled Against Roman Rule in 61 A.D.
05/18/12: There Are Sixty Carbon Atoms in a Buckyball
05/04/12: I'm Feelin' Groovy, Let's Go to the 59^th Street Bridge
04/27/12: There Are Fifty-Eight Spaces in the Game Hexxagon

04/20/12: Sergeant Mal Reynolds and Corporal Zoe Alleyne Were Members of the 57^th Overlanders Brigade

04/13/12: Fifty-Six Men Signed the Declaration of Independence
04/06/12: Charlton Heston and David Niven Kicked Ass in 55 Days in Peking
03/30/12: There Are Fifty-Four Milligrams of Caffeine in a Can of Mountain Dew
03/23/12: Herbie the Love Bug Is Car Number Fifty-Three
03/16/12: If You Drop a Deck of Cards You Can Play Fifty-Two Pick-Up

03/09/12: The Aliens Say They Are Hiding Conspiracy Theorists in Area Fifty-One. Or Was It the Other Way Around?

03/02/12: Fifty Years Is the Traditional Length of a Jubilee
02/23/12: Forty-Nine Is Seven Squared
02/17/12: Julius Caesar Defeated Pompey in Forty-Eight B.C.
02/10/12: Join the Forty-Seven Society. Or Honor the Forty-Seven Ronin. Or Both.
02/04/12: You Have Forty-Six Chromosomes. Unless You're a Mutant or a Chimpanzee
01/27/12: Billy Dee Williams Drinks Colt Forty-Five, You Better Not Run Out of It
01/20/12: Forty-Four Was Reggie Jackson's Number, Stir the Drink
01/12/12: Forty-Three Is the Atomic Number of Technetium
12/24/11: Forty-Two Is the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything
12/16/11: Forty-One Was Brian Piccolo's Number, Sing a Song for Him
12/09/11: Ali Baba Faced Off Against Forty Thieves

12/02/11: The Thirty-Nine Steps Was a Book by John Buchan and a Movie by Alfred Hitchcock

11/17/11: The Thirty-Eighth Parallel Separates the Koreas
11/10/11: Thirty-Seven Is the Smallest Non-Supersingular Prime
11/03/11: Thirty-Six Is Six Squared
10/15/11: You Have to Be Thirty-Five to Be President of the United States
10/07/11: Thirty-Four Is a Heptagonal Number
10/02/11: Thirty-Three Was Larry Bird's Number
09/09/11: Thirty-Two Is a Leyland Number Where X = Two and Y = Four
08/26/11: Thirty-One Is a Happy Prime
08/19/11: You Can't Trust Anyone Over Thirty, Except Me
08/12/11: Twenty-Nine? Hey, That's a Prime Number!
08/05/11: February Has Twenty-Eight Days, Usually
07/29/11: Twenty-Seven Should Be Sacred to the Minbari
07/22/11: Twenty-Six Is Only Divisible by Thirteen
07/15/11: A Quarter of a Century
07/08/11: I Was Twenty-Four When I Got Married for the First Time
07/01/11: Twenty-Three Is the Last Prime Number Until Twenty-Nine
06/24/11: Twenty-Two Is the Same Backwards and Forwards
06/17/11: At Twenty-One, the Follow Friday Can Drink Now
06/10/11: D&D Characters Can Buy Arrows by the Score
06/03/11: Does Anyone Else Remember the Song Nineteen?
05/20/11: Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
05/06/11: Seventeen Is a Prime Number
04/28/11: Louis the Sixteenth
04/21/11: The Ides of Fridays
04/14/11: A Fortnight of Fridays
04/07/11: A Baker's Dozen

03/31/11: Bravos, Franko, Gilpin, Jefferson, Jiminez, Lever, Maggott, Pinkley, Posey, Sawyer, Vladek,  and Wladislaw

03/24/11: This One Goes to Eleven. Well, Five Actually
03/19/11: Decimeters
03/11/11: Number Nine
03/04/11: Aces Over Eights
02/25/11: Sevens
02/17/11: Sixth Time Is the Charm
02/11/11: A Fifth of Following
02/04/11: For the Fourth Time
01/28/11: Again, Again
01/21/11: Again
01/14/11: Virgin Friday

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Random Thoughts

This is the list of all of the Random Thought posts that I have written. I am occasionally moved to write on a topic that occurs to me that simply isn't easily placed in one particular category or another, so I call them random thoughts. There is basically no rhyme or reason to my choice of topics, or how often I post these sorts of musings. They are, as the name implies, mostly random.

10/31/18: Moving
10/16/18: Unexpected Lives
09/12/18: The Misery of the Hustler, and the Joy of Being a Fan
09/05/18: Five Things
01/23/18: Farewell Le Guin

07/18/17: Four Dollars Worth of Books

06/15/17: Justine: The Kind of Black Woman the Wonder Woman Movie Needed

05/02/17: Some Thoughts About Library Book Sales
03/21/17: My Nominations for the 2017 Hugo Awards
01/11/17: High School, Expectations, and Literature
11/11/16: Third Party Candidates and American Elections
10/18/16: The 2014 "E Pluribus Hugo" Revised Hugo Finalists
10/12/16: The 2015 "E Pluribus Hugo" Revised Hugo Finalists
09/27/16: The 2016 "E Pluribus Hugo" Revised Hugo Finalists

09/21/16: Separating the Sad Puppies from the Rabid Puppies in the 2016 "What Could Have Been" Hugo Finalists

09/20/16: 2016 "What Could Have Been" Hugo Finalists
05/13/16: Why Not the Hugo Longlist?
05/08/16: 2015 "What Could Have Been" Hugo Finalists
05/08/16: How to UnPuppy a Hugo Ballot
08/27/15: Things to Consider for 2016 Hugo Nominations

04/14/15: Eight Things About Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword That Have Nothing to Do With Gender

03/17/15: Ten Years Without Andre Norton
12/25/14: One Hundred Years Ago
08/20/14: My Thoughts on the 2014 Hugo Award Results
08/17/14: My 2014 Gen Con Haul
06/04/14: Amazon Links, or Rather the Lack Thereof
02/26/14: What I've Been Reading (Because It Hasn't Been Books)
11/21/13: The Great Twitter Music War of 2013
09/03/13: The Tabletop Games I Own
08/03/13: Changes to My Reading Pattern and Some Notes on Policies
03/23/13: A Funeral: Infinity and Meaning
10/04/12: Typing With a Splint On Is Slow, Plus Thoughts About Public Television
08/15/12: R.I.P. Harry Harrison
05/14/12: Library Book Sales!
08/11/11: So, How Many Have You Read?
07/18/11: Introducing Star Trek: The Original Series to My Son
05/23/11: A Massive Sidetrack
03/08/11: The Litany Against McDune
02/19/11: Follow Friday Follow-Up, Blog Organization, and Haiku
02/13/11: I Drew Donald Duck
02/02/11: Stylish Blogger Award
11/02/10: Go See My Mother's Artwork
10/18/10: Did the Stimulus Package Work?
09/10/10: Earth
06/18/08: Magazines
02/04/08: Superbowl Sunday

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Book Blogger Hop

This is the list of all of the Book Blogger Hop posts resulting from my participation in the Book Blogger Hop meme hosted by Jen at Crazy for Books, and later by a collection of guest hosts. When I started participating in the meme, I followed the same practice for numbering these posts that I had previously used for my Follow Friday posts, coming up with something interesting about every number I used.

As of December 21, 2012, Jen stopped hosting the Book Blogger Hop due to shifts in her blogging focus, and as of February, 2012, the meme was taken over by Billy Burgess at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.

04/09/21: Fritigern Launched the Gothic War Against Rome in 376 A.D.

03/27/21: In 375 B.C., the Theban Sacred Band Defeated a Much Larger Spartan Force at the Battle of Tegyra

03/20/21: Spearthrower Owl Became Ruler of Teotihuacan in 374 A.D.

03/13/21: Emperor Valens Converted to Arianism in 373 A.D.

11/07/20: Saint Augustine Adopted Manichaeism.in 372 A.D.

10/24/20: The Roman Poet Ausonius Wrote the Mosella in 371 A.D.

10/17/20: Until It Was Revoked, Article 370 Defined Kashmir's Relationship with India

10/10/20: Supernova SN 386 Probably Exploded in 369 A.D.

09/12/20: "368" Was a Project by Casey Nestiat Intended to Offer Space to Creators in New York

09/05/20: GK Persei Went Nova in 367 A.D. No One on Earth Knew About This Until 1901 A.D.

08/29/20: Emperor Valens Defeated the Usurper Procopius at the Battle of Thyatira in 366 A.D.

08/22/20: There Are 365 Days in a Common Year

08/15/20: Pelopidas Died in 364 B.C.

08/08/20: 363 Is the Sum of Nine Consecutive Prime Numbers

08/01/20: 11 U.S.C. § 362 Provides for an Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy

07/25/20: 361 Degrees Is a Chinese Sporting Goods Company

07/11/20: There Are 360 Degrees in a Circle Because the Babylonians Used a Sexagesimal Counting System

07/04/20: The Battle of Wolf 359 Pitted the Federation Against the Borg

06/27/20: Route 358 Is a Road and a Band in Arkansas

06/20/20: If You Do a Google Search for "357", the First Couple of Pages of Results Will Be About a Gun

06/13/20: xkcd 356 describes the Game of Nerd Sniping

05/30/20: Agent 355 Was the First Female Spy for the United States, and No One Knows Who She Really Was

05/23/20: The Chronograph of 354 Is the Earliest Known Dated Codex

05/16/20: The Country Code for the Republic of Ireland Is 353

05/09/20: The Battle of Crocus Field Was Probably Fought in 352 B.C.

05/02/20: Transfers Under 26 U.S.C. § 351 Are a Primary Means of Transferring Property to Businesses

04/25/20: 350.org Is an International Organization Dedicated to Addressing Climate Change

04/18/20: The $349 Billion Paycheck Protection Program Was Passed in March 2020 and Ran Out of Money Before the End of April

04/11/20: The Ferrari 348 Was Manufactured Between 1989 and 1995

04/04/20: Plato Died in 347 B.C.

03/21/20: DC Bar Ethics Opinion 346 Clarifies What Elements Are Required to Trigger Confidentiality With a Client

03/14/20: Phillip II Was Admitted to the Amphictyonic League in 345 B.C.

03/07/20: 344 Questions: The Creative Person's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Insight, Survival, and Artistic Fulfillment Is a Book by Stefan G. Bucher

02/29/20: 343 Industries Is the Video Game Company That Currently Makes Halo Games

02/22/20: I Once Dealt With a Case Involving a Sovereign Citizen and 11 U.S.C. § 342

02/15/20: Epicurus Was Born in 341 B.C.

02/01/20: The Area Code for the U.S. Virgin Islands Is 340

01/25/20: Ex Parte Virginia, 100 U.S. 339 (1879) Held That State Judges Could Not Exclude Black Citizens from Serving On Grand Juries or Petit Juries

01/18/20: Phillip II Established Macedonian Hegemony Over Central Greece in 338 B.C.

01/11/20: Constantine the Great Died in 337 A.D.
01/04/20: The Video 3:36 by Poppy Is, Ironically, Only 40 Seconds Long

12/28/19: The Gibson ES-335 Was the World's First Commercial Thinline Archtop Semi-Acoustic Electric Guitar

12/21/19: 334 Is a Nebula-Nominated Novel by Thomas M. Disch

12/14/19: 333 Ia a Significant Number in Occultism (Where It Is Associated With the Demon Choronzon), Numerology, and Angelology

12/07/19: Alexander the Great Destroyed Tyre After a Seven Month Siege in 332 B.C.

11/30/19: xkcd 331 Is Titled Photoshops

11/23/19: Constantine the Great Moved the Roman Capitol to Constantinople in 330 A.D.

11/16/19: In Archie #329, Archie Gets Issued a Computer So He Can Do His Schooling from Home

11/09/19: The BMW 328 Was Voted a Top 25 Finalist for "Car of the Century" in 1999

11/02/19: xkcd 327 Is Titled Exploits of a Mom

10/19/19: Constantine I Founded Constantinople in 326 A.D. (Its Name Wasn't Changed to Istanbul Until 1923)

10/12/19: 325 Is the Only Known 3-Hyperperfect Number

10/05/19: The Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy Ended in 324 A.D.

09/21/19: The Skull and Bones Society at Yale Is Also Known as Order 322

09/07/19: The Area Code for Cape Canaveral Is 3-2-1 (Liftoff!)

08/31/19: "320 Changes Direction" Is a Support Group for Friends and Family Members of Individuals with Mental Illness

08/24/19: 319 Is a Song on the Prince Album The Gold Experience

08/10/19: The Mass of Jupiter Is Approximately 318 Times Greater Than the Mass of Earth

08/03/19: The 317 Coalition Advocates for Increasing the Federal Funding for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

07/27/19: 316 Was an Instrumental Track on the Van Halen Album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge

07/20/19: The 315 Restaurant and Wine Bar Is Located in Santa Fe

07/13/19: 3-14 Is My Wedding Anniversary

07/06/19: Donald Duck's Car Has the License Plate Number 313

06/22/19: Constantine I Defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A.D.

06/15/19: Dialing 3-1-1 in the United States and Canada Will Connect You to Non-Emergency Municipal Services in Most Areas

06/08/19: The Romans Defeated the Etruscans in the Battle of Lake Vadimo in 310 B.C.

06/01/19: Cassander Killed Alexander IV, the Nominal King of Macedon, in 309 B.C.

05/25/19: The .308 Round Can Be Used in Hunting Rifles and Sniper Rifles in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas

05/18/19: 307 Is the Only Area Code for Wyoming, and Has Been Since Area Codes Were Created in 1947

05/11/19: In 306 A.D., the Synod of Elvira Declared That Killing With a Magic Spell Is a Sin

05/04/19: 305 Is a 2008 Movie About Five Spartans Assigned to Guard a Goat Path

04/27/19: 304 Was the Only Area Code for West Virginia Until 2009

04/19/19: The Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer Is a Highly Sought After Piece of Equipment

04/13/19: Area Code 302 Is the One and Only Area Code for the State of Delaware

04/06/19: The HTTP Response Status Code "301 Moved Permanently" Is Used for Permanent URL Redirection

03/30/19: 300 Was a Stunningly Ahistorical Movie Ostensibly About the Battle of Thermopylae

03/23/19: The Third Samnite War Started in 299 B.C.

03/16/19: 298 Baptistina Is the Namesake of the Baptistina Asteroid Family

03/09/19: +297 Is a Restaurant in Aruba

03/02/19: Constantius Chlorus Reconquered Britain in 296 A.D.

02/23/19: The First Roman Temple to Venus Was Dedicated During the Third Samnite War in 295 B.C.

02/16/19: Demetrius Poliorcetes Betrayed and Murdered Alexander V to Seize the Throne of Macedon in 294 B.C.

02/09/19: I-293 Is a Highway That Loops Around Manchester, New Hampshire

02/02/19: "292" Is a Medication Consisting of a Combination of ASA, Caffeine, and Codeine

01/26/19: Team 291 Is a FIRST Robotics Competition Team from Erie, Pennsylvania

01/19/19: 290 Is the Sum of Four Consecutive Prime Numbers

01/12/19: Emperor Maximian Attempted to Invade Britain and Wrest Control of the Island from the Usurper Carausius in 289 A.D.

01/05/19: 288 Is "Two Gross", Which Is Often Used as a Pun Among Math Nerds

12/29/18: The First Indiction Began in 287 A.D.

12/22/18: Bill Gates Referred to the Intel 286 Chip as a "Brain Dead Chip"

12/15/18: There Are 285 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition

12/08/18: Vasili Grigorievich Zaitsev Served with the 284^th Rifle Division in the Battle of Stalingrad

12/01/18: The Romans Defeated the Etruscans in the Battle of Lake Vadimo in 283 B.C.

11/24/18: 282 Is the Smallest Multidigit Palindrome Sandwiched Between Two Twin Primes

11/17/18: 281 Is the Smallest Prime (p) for Which the Decimal Period Length of the Reciprocal Is (p -1)/10

11/10/18: 18 People at a Round Table Can Shake Hands With Each Other in Non-Crossing Ways in 280 Different Ways

11/03/18: The Conquest of Wu by Jin That Resulted in the Reunification of China Began in 279 A.D.

10/27/18: Pyrrhus Intervened in a Conflict Between Carthage and Syracuse in 278 B.C. and Ended Up the King of Syracuse

10/20/18: 277 Is a Super-Prime

10/13/18: The Longest Boxing Match in History Lasted for 276 Rounds

10/06/18: Hamilcar Barca Was Born in 275 B.C.

09/29/18: Mani, the Founder of Manichaeism, Died in 274 A.D.

09/22/18: The Thermodynamic Temperature of the Triple Point of Water Is Approximately 273 Degrees Kelvin

09/15/18: King Shapur I of Persia Died in 272 A.D.

09/08/18: 26 U.S.C. § 271 Deals With the Tax Treatment of Debts Owed by Political Parties

09/01/18: Aurelius Became Emperor of a Divided Rome in 270 A.D. He Proceeded to Reunify It.

08/25/18: Apropos of Nothing in Particular, 26 U.S.C. § 269 Penalizes Acquisitions Made to Evade or Avoid Income Tax

08/18/18: Pope Dionysius Died in 268 A.D.

08/11/18: 267 Tirza Was the First Asteroid Discovered by Auguste Charlois

08/04/18: Irish High King Cormac mac Airt Reportedly Died in 266 A.D.

07/28/18: The Battle of Messana, the First Battle Between Rome and Carthage, Took Place in 265 B.C.

07/21/18: The Me 264 Bomber Was Designed to Attack New York from France

07/14/18: 263 Is a Strictly Non-Palindromic Number

07/07/18: The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus Was Destroyed by Invading Goths in 262 A.D.

06/30./18: Britain Elected to Join the Gallic Empire in 261 A.D.

06/23/18: There Are 260 Days in the Mayan Tzol'kin Calendar

06/16/18: 259 Is the Country Code for Zanzibar, Someone Call John Brunner

06/09/18: Nanjing University Was Founded in 258 A.D.

06/02/18: There Is a Pac Man Themed Restaurant in Illinois Named "Level 257"

05/26/18: The 256^th Level in Pac Man Is the Unplayable "Split-Screen" Level

05/19/18: Rome Won the Battle of Adis and Lost the Battle of Tunis in 255 B.C.

05/12/18: A Plane Can Be Subdivided by 22 Lines into a Maximum of 254 Regions

05/05/18: Aemilianus Was Roman Emperor for Three Months in 253 A.D.

04/28/18: There Are 252 Ways of Writing the Number 4 as a Sum of Six Squares of Integers

04/21/18: 251 Is a Sophie Germain Prime

04/13/18: Diophantus Wrote Arithmetica in 250 A.D.

04/06/18: If I Live Another 200 Years After This April 9^th, I Will Be 249 Years Old

03/30/18: Origen Wrote an Eight Volume Refutation of Celsus' On the True Doctrine in 248 A.D. This Is the Only Form in Which Celsus' Work Has Survived

03/24/18: 247 A.D. Was Marked as the Millenium of Rome

03/17/18: My Copy of Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon Is 246 Pages Long

03/10/18: 245 Is a Jazz Instrumental by Eric Dolphy

03/03/18: The Tupolev Tu-244 Was a Proposed Supersonic Passenger Aircraft That Was Never Actually Built

02/24/18: 243 Is the Calling Code for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, A Country That Was Called Zaire When I Lived There

02/17/18: U.N. Resolution 242 Was Adopted Unanimously by the U.N. Security Council in Response to the Six-Day War

02/10/18: The First Punic War Ended in 241 B.C.

02/03/18: The Mercenary War, a Revolt by Mercenary Troops Against Carthage that Began as a Pay Dispute, Took Place in 240 B.C.

01/27/18: Pu-239 Is the Most Common Isotope of Plutonium

01/20/17: 238 Is an Untouchable Number, Someone Call Eliot Ness!

01/13/18: Room 237 Is a Documentary About the Meanings in Kubrick's Version of The Shining

01/06/18: Scipio Africanus Is Believed to Have Been Born in 236 B.C.

12/30/17: U-235 Is the Uranium Isotope That Was Used to Make Little Boy

12/23/17: 234 Is the Country Code for Nigeria

12/16/17: 233 Is a Fibonacci Prime

12/09/17: Heracias Became the First Bishop of Alexandria to Use the Title "Pope" in 232 A.D.

12/02/17: Radium-231 has a Half-Life of Just Over a Minute and a Half

11/25/17: 47 U.S.C. § 230 Provides for Protection of Private Blocking and Screening of Offensive Material on the Internet

11/18/17: Area Code 229 Apparently Shows Up in a Lot of Rap Songs

11/11/17: Shah Arshadir I Conquered Parthia in 228 A.D.

11/04/17: Marla Gibbs Starred in the Sitcom 227 from 1985 to 1990

10/28/17: The Colossus of Rhodes Was Destroyed in 226 B.C.

10/21/17: Trieu Thi Trinh Was Born in 225 A.D.

10/14/17: The Sassanid Dynasty Was Founded by Arshadir I in 224 A.D.

10/07/17: The Chinese Scholar Xi Kang Was Born in 223 A.D.

09/30/17: 222 (Live & Uncut) is the Unedited Version of Patton Oswalt's Album Feelin' Kinda Patton

09/23/17: Sherlock Holmes Lived at 221B Baker Street

09/16/17: Imperator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Married a Vestal Virgin in 220 A.D., Which Was a Huge Scandal in Rome

09/09/17: The "219 Restaurant" Is a Creole Restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia

09/02/17: A Total of 218 Votes Are Needed in the U.S. House of Representatives to Achieve a Majority

08/26/17: 217 Is the Sum of All of the Factors of 100

08/19/17: According to Ken Burns, There Are 216 Stitches on a Baseball

08/05/17: 215 Is the Dewey Decimal Classification for Science and Religion

07/29/17: According to Sarah Connor in Terminator 2, a Normal Human Skeleton Has 214 Bones

07/22/17: 21.3.60 Is a Record Company Founded by Henry Rollins

07/15/17: Archimedes Was Killed During the Sack of Syracuse in 212 B.C.

07/08/17: Publius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus Both Died Fighting the Carthaginians in 211 B.C.

07/01/17: 210 Is the Sum of Eight Consecutive Prime Numbers

06/24/17: There Doesn't Seem to Be Much That's Interesting About the Number 209

06/17/17: There Are Exactly 208 Five-Bead Necklaces Drawn from a Set of Beads with Four Colors

06/10/17: Cao Cao Won the Battle of White Wolf Mountain in 207 A.D.

06/03/17: 206 Bones Is a Novel by Kathy Reichs

05/27/17: 18 U.S.C. § 205 Seems Like It Might Be Real Important in U.S. Politics Soon

05/20/17: The Peugeot 204 Was the Best-Selling Car in France from 1969 Through 1971

05/13/17: Septimius Severus Rebuilt Byzantium in 203 A.D.

05/06/17: Scipio Africanus Defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 B.C.

04/29/17: The Second Punic War Ended in 201 B.C.

04/22/17: The HTTP Status Code Indicating Success Is "200"

04/08/17: In 2007, Ryan Howard Set a Major League Record With 199 Strikeouts

04/01/17: Public Law 93-198 Provided for Local Government for the District of Columbia

03/25/17: Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Norm Coleman, and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg All Attended P.S. 197 in Brooklyn, New York

03/18/17: The Rosetta Stone Was Created in 196 B.C.

03/11/17: Mithridates I, the Great King of Parthia, Was Born in 195 B.C.

03/04/17: U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 Is Cited as the Basis for the Palestinian Right of Retrn

02/26/17: The U.S. Navy Said That the Ship T-AG-193, Also Known as the Glomar Explorer, Was for Deep Sea Drilling

02/18/17: The Achaean League Annexed Sparta in 192 B.C.

02/11/17: Finding Special Order 191 Gave the Union Valuable Intelligence About Robert E. Lee's Plans and Led to the Battle of Antietam

02/04/17: The Great Geometer Apollonius of Perga Died in 190 B.C.

01/28/17: Galen Published His Treatise On the Various Temperaments in 189 A.D.

01/21/17: Casey Jones' Final Journey Was a 188-Mile Run from Memphis to Canton

01/14/17: Samuel L. Jackson's First Headlining Movie Role Was in the Film One Eight Seven

01/07/17: POX 186 Is a Small Galaxy

12/31/16: 185 Is a Square-Free Integer

12/24/26: Proposition 184 Implemented California's "Three Strikes" Law, Which Was (and Remains) a Terrible Idea

12/17/16: Remember Gladiator? In Reality, Roman Senators Failed to Assassinate Emperor Commodus in 183 A.D.

12/10/16: The Star of Bombay Is a 182-Carat Sapphire Once Owned by Mary Pickford

12/03/16: Stock Footage of the U.S.S. Straub (DE-181) Was Used in an Episode of Wonder Woman Titled The Bermuda Triangle Crisis

11/26/16: In Men's Archery, the Clout Shooting Distance Is 180 Yards

11/19/16: 179 Days of the Year Are Even-Numbered

11/12/16: TT178 Is the Tomb of Neferrenpet, Who Was Also Known as Kenro

11/05/16: The Second Marcomannic War Started in 177 A.D.

10/29/16: The Heinkel He 176 Was a German Experimental Liquid-Fueled Rocket Propelled Aircraft

10/22/16: The Documentary Flight 175: As the World Watched Is About United Flight 175 Which Crashed into the World Trade Center

10/15/16: Marcus Aurelius Wrote Meditations in 174 A.D.

10/08/16: The Vought-173 "Flying Pancake" Was an Experimental Aircraft Built by the U.S. Navy During World War II

10/01/16: Dana Kunze Holds the World High Dive Record at 172 Feet

09/24/16: 171 Is Slang for "Scam" or "Swindler" in Brazilian Portuguese

09/17/16: 170! Is the Largest Factorial Google's Built-In Calculator Can Handle

09/03/16: 169 Is a Reversible Square Number

08/27/16: Tracy 168 Is a Graffiti Artist in New York

08/13/16: Martina Navratilova Has 167 Tennis Titles

08/06/16: The Piaggo P.166 Is a Twin Engine Push-Prop Aircraft

07/30/16: Claudius Ptolemy Died in 165 A.D.

07/23/16: 164 Is the Smallest Number That Can Be Expressed as a Concatenation of Two Squares in Two Different Ways

07/16/16: The Square Root of 163 Appears in the Ramanujan Constant

07/09/16: Major League Baseball Teams Play 162 Regular Season Games

07/02/16: The Penal Colony in the Film Alien 3 Would Have Been Named Fiorina Fury 161 (If There Had Been an Alien 3 Film)

06/25/16: 160 Is the Sum of the First Eleven Prime Numbers

06/18/16: The Alfa Romeo 158/159 Was a Grand Prix and Formula One Racing Car Used Primarily from 1937 to 1953

06/11/16: Mia Hamm Scored 158 Goals in International Soccer Play

06/04/16: Gaius Marius, Reformer of the Roman Army, Was Born in 157 B.C.

05/28/16: There Were 156 Sons of Magbish in the Census of Israel

05/21/16: The Romans Began to Abandon Hadrian's Wall in 155 A.D.

05/14/16: Shakespeare Wrote 154 Sonnets (That We Know Of)

05/07/16: 153 Is the 17^th Triangular Number

04/30/16: In the Movie You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks' Character's E-Mail Address Was NY152

04/23/16: The IQ 151 Was a Personal Computer Made in Czechoslovakia Back When There Was a Czechoslovakia

04/16/16: Dunbar's Number Is Approximately 150

04/09/16: 149 Fish and Chips Has a Shop in Bridlington and Another in Barnard Castle

04/02/16: The Numidian King Masinissa Died in 148 B.C.

03/26/16: 147-Break Is a 1983 Documentary About Snooker Featuring Steve Davis

03/19/16: New Horizon's Flyby of Jupiter Slowed the Planet, xkcd's "what if" 146 Works Out How Many Such Flyby's Would Be Needed to Stop Jupiter Completely

03/12/16: Marcus Aurelius Became Consul in 145 A.D. (So Did Antonius Augustus Pius, But Most People Don't Care as Much About Him)

03/05/16: 144 Is Twelve Squared and the Twelfth Fibonacci Number

02/27/16: The Vickers Type 143 Was a British Single-Seat Biplane

02/20/16: Aemilius Papinianus, the Greatest Roman Jurist, Was Born in 142 A.D.

02/13/16: 141 Is a Blum Integer

01/30/16: Jeppe Carlsen Created a Video Game Named 140

01/23/16: Hadrian's Tomb Was Completed in 139 A.D.

01/16/16: The Misfits Wrote the Song We Are 138

01/09/16: Feynman Said Physicists Should All Put Up a Sign With the Number 137 On It to Remind Them of What They Don't Know

01/02/16: 136 kHz Is the Lowest Band Frequency Amateurs Are Allowed to Transmit

12/26/15: The EZ 135 Drive Was a 3.5" Removable Hard Disk Drive Produced by SyQuest Technology Starting in 1995

12/19/15: Article 134 of the UCMJ Is the General Article

12/12/15: Kosmos 133 Was the First Unmanned Test Flight of the Soyuz Spacecraft

12/05/15: 132 Is the Smallest Minimal Osiris Number in Base 10

11/28/15: You Can Use United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Form I-131 to Apply for a Reentry Permit, Refugee Travel Document or Advance Parole Travel Document

11/21/15: Rome Banned the Execution of Slaves Without Trial in 130 A.D.

11/14/15: The Greek Philosopher Carneades Died in 129 B.C.

11/07/15: The Atari 2600 Console Had 128 Bytes of Memory. Not Megabytes or Kilobytes. Bytes.

10/31/15: The Fiat 127 Was One of the First Modern Supermini Cars

10/24/15: 126 Is the Seventh Magic Number in Nuclear Physics

10/17/15: 125 Is the Cube of 5

10/10/15: 124 Is the Sum of Eight Consecutive Prime Numbers

10/04/15: Madara and White Wrote the Song 1-2-3, and Then Holland-Dozier-Holland Sued Them

09/27/15: Construction of Hadrian's Wall Began in 122 A.D.

09/19/15: 121 Is the Official End Score for Cribbage

09/16/15: 120 Is a Turkish Film About Children in the Battle of Sarikamish

08/05/15: Project 119 Was a Program Initiated by the Chinese Government to Increase Their Medal Performance at the Olympic Games

08/29/15: The Roman Emperor Hadrian Executed Four Ex-Consuls in 118 A.D.

08/22/15: Master Chief in Halo Is Also Designated John-117

08/15/15: Susannah Mushatt Jones Lived to 116 Years Old

08/08/15: Limit 115 Is Also Called the Blue Flu and the New Plague in Fallout

07/25/15: The CRM114 Discriminator Is in Dr. Strangelove, Pod CRM114 Is in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Serum 114 Is in A Clockwork Orange

07/18/15: The Salt Vampire from the Star Trek Episode The Man Trap Is from the Planet M113

07/11/15: There Are 112 Pounds in an English Long Hundredweight

07/04/15: 111 Is Called a "Nelson" and Is an Unlucky Score in Cricket

06/27/15: The Sears Tower Is 110 Stories Tall

06/20/15: On an Infinite Chessboard a Knight Can Reach 109 Squares in Three Moves

06/13/15: In Hindu Myth, 108 Gods and Demons Pull on a Serpent to Create the Elixir of Immortality

06/06/15: 17 U.S.C. § 107 Limits the Exclusive Rights Provided Under U.S. Copyright Law

05/30/15: Seaborgium Was Named After a Living Person and Its Atomic Number Is 106

05/23/15: 105 Is Part of a Ruth-Aaron Pair With 104

05/16/15: The HMS Victory Had 104 Guns When She Was Nelson's Flagship

05/09/15: 103 Is the Twenty-Seventh Prime Number

05/02/15: One Hundred and Two Is a Song by the Judds

04/25/15: The Wanderer in Fallout 3 Is from Vault 101

04/18/15: The 100 Is a Post-Apocalyptic Novel by Kass Morgan That Was Made into a Television Series

04/12/15: People Who Think Springsteen Is Upbeat Should Listen to Johnny 99

04/04/15: Trajan Became Roman Emperor in 98 A.D.

03/28/15: Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Boxcar Willie All Recorded Wreck of the Old 97

03/21/15: Question Mark and the Mysterions Cried 96 Tears

03/14/15: e.e. cummings Published 95 Poems in 1958

03/07/15: This Message Is Continued in the Latest Issue of Private Eye on Page 94

02/28/15: Aleister Crowley Created Thelema, Which Uses 93 as Shorthand for Its Law

02/21/15: The "Glorious 92" Were Massachusetts Legislators Who Refused to Rescind the Massachusetts Circular Letter

02/14/15: The McCarthy 91 Function Is a Recursive Function

02/07/15: Gaius Valerius Flaccus Died in 90 A.D.

01/31/15: MTV Demanded Three Sets of Breasts be Censored in the Video for Pop Song 89, Stipe Censored Four

01/24/15: To Travel Through Time, You Must Get a DeLorean to Go 88 Miles Per Hour

01/17/15: The Wenger Swiss Army Knife Has 87 Tools

01/10/15: Maxwell Smart Is Agent 86

01/04/15: Federalist No. 85 Was the Last of the Federalist Papers

12/27/14: It Takes 84 Years for Uranus to Orbit the Sun Once

12/20/14: A Jewish Person May Celebrate a Second Bar Mitzvah When They Turn 83

12/13/14: Vercingetorix Was Born in 82 B.C.

12/06/14: The Sinclair ZX81 Was a Scottish Computer Repackaged for the U.S. Market as the Timex Sinclair 1000

11/29/14: Ultraman 80 Was the Ninth Show in the Ultra Series

11/22/14: Live Seventy-Nine Is an Album by the Space Rock Band Hawkwind

11/15/14: There Are 78 Total Gifts in the Song The Twelve Days of Christmas

11/08/14: During World War II, "77" Was Used as a Password at the Swedish-Norwegian Border

11/01/14: The "76" Brand Gas Stations Are Owned by Conoco

10/25/14: 75 Is the Age Limit for Canadian Senators

10/18/14: The Atomic Number of Tungsten Is 74

10/11/14: In the 1940 NFL Championship Game the Bears Beat the Redskins 73-0

10/04/14: Osiris Was Enclosed in a Coffin by 72 Evil Disciples of Set

09/27/14: The Third Slave Uprising, Which Was Led by Spartacus, Was Crushed in 71 B.C.

09/20/14: French Speakers Who Are Not French Use the Word "Septante" for "Seventy"

09/14/14: 69 Is the Number Bill and Ted Were Thinking of When Talking to Their Future Selves

09/07/14: 68 A.D. Is the Final Year Recorded in Tacitus' Annals

08/30/14: There Are 67 Judo Throws

08/23/14: 66 Is a Sphenic Number

08/16/14: Sammy Hagar No Longer Can't Drive 55, But Now He Can't Drive 65

08/10/14: There Are Sixty-Four Demons Listed in the Dictionnaire Infernal

08/02/14: Rule 63 States That for Every Fictional Character, There Is an Opposite Gender Counterpart

07/27/14: The Sum of the Faces, Edges, and Vertices of an Icosahedron Is 62. Roll a d20.

07/20/14: 61* Is a Movie About Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle

07/13/14: The Babylonian Number System Was Base 60

06/28/14: The Roman Emperor Nero Had His Mother Killed in 59 A.D.

06/22/14: 58 Lonely Men Is a Book About Federal Judges in the South During Desegregation

06/14/14: Agent 57 Is a Master of Disguise

06/08/14: I Remember When 56 kbit/s Was the Fastest Analog Modem Speed

06/01/14: Sammy Hagar Can't Drive 55

05/24/14: A Rubik's Cube Has 54 Colored Squares

05/18/14: The Book 53 More Things to Do in Zero Gravity Is Mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

05/11/14: Julius Ceasar Defeated Vercingetorix in 52 B.C.

05/03/14: Fifty-One Tales Is a Collection of Short Stories by Lord Dunsany

04/26/14: Hawaii Was the Fiftieth State to Join the United States

04/20/14: Members of the Manhattan Project Referred to Plutonium as "49"

04/13/14: '48 Is an Alternate History Novel by James Herbert

03/30/14: In 1964 Donald Bernstein Demonstrated That All Numbers Are Equal to 47

03/22/14: The Atomic Number of Palladium Is 46, Now Go Play Some of Their Role-Playing Games

03/09/14: The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion Is Called "The '45"

03/01/14: Julius Ceasar Was Assassinated in 44 B.C.

02/23/14: Sheldon Cooper's Hacky Sacking High Score Is 43

02/15/14: 42 Remains the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

02/09/14: Judah Ben-Hur Was Called 41 When He Was a Roman Warship Slave

02/01/14: Forty Is the Highest Number Ever Counted to on Sesame Street

01/26/14: 39 Is the Atomic Number of Yttrium

01/18/14: The Crest of the Hardrada Clan Was 38 Ravens Around 38 Arrows

01/12/14: Channel 37 Is Reserved for Radioastronomy in the United States

01/04/14: Superman Loves 36, Because He Is the First Son of Krypton
12/28/13: There Are Thirty-Five Free Hexominoes

12/21/13: Rule 34. That Is All.

12/14/13: 33 Is the Pilot Episode of the Reimagined Battlestar Galactica Series
12/08/13: A Full Adult Set of Human Teeth Consists of Thirty-Two Teeth
11/29/13: There Are Thirty-One Musical Triads
11/22/13: The Thirty Years War Lasted from 1618 to 1648
12/21/12: There Are Twenty-Nine Knuts in a Sickle

12/14/12: Esperanto Has Twenty-Eight Letters in It's Alphabet

12/10/12: There Are 27 Bones in the Human Hand

11/30/12: There Are 26 Spacetime Dimensions in Bosonic String Theory

11/16/12: A Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Must Be at Least 25 Years Old

11/04/12: A Tesseract Is Made Up of Twenty-Four Squares

10/26/12: In a Randomly Chosen Group of 23 People There is a 50% Chance That Two Will Share the Same Birthday

10/19/12: Twenty-TwoWas a Second Season Episode of the Twilight Zone

10/12/12: The Numbers on a Six-Sided Die Add Up to Twenty-One

10/05/12: Exponential Thermostellar Bomb Number 20 Threatened to Detonate in the Dark Star's Bomb Bay

09/29/12: Nineteen Is a Song About the Vietnam War by Paul Hardcastle

09/21/12: Alice Cooper's First Top Ten Hit Was I'm Eighteen

09/14/12: William Holden Starred in the Movie Stalag 17

09/07/12: There Are Sixteen Myers-Briggs Personality Types

08/31/12: All Four of the Gaelic Games Have Fifteen Players to a Side

08/24/12: My Son Is Fourteen Years Old

08/17/12: Thirteen Ghosts Is a Silly Movie, But I Love It Anyway

08/10/12: Hercules Endured Twelve Labors

08/03/12: Nigel Tufnel's Amplifiers Go to ELEVEN!

07/29/12: Five Different Superstring Theories Posit Ten Spacetime Dimensions

07/13/12: The Nine Muses Are Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania

07/06/12: Eight Is the Second Magic Number in Nuclear Physics

06/23/12: The Sevens Are a Secret Society at the University of Virginia

06/15/12: The Six Are Superhumans in Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

06/09/12: Leeloo Was the Fifth Element

06/01/12: There Were Four Classical Elements Until Aristotle Came Along

05/25/12: The Triluminary Is the Most Sacred Artifact of the Minbari

05/18/12: Salusa Secundus Is the Training Ground for the Sardaukar

05/04/12: Three Dog Night Says One Is the Loneliest Number

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