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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