1971 Locus Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

Comments: Unlike many other awards which simply list the winner and the losing nominees, the Locus Awards rank every single nominee on the short list, from first to last, in every single category. Because the Locus Awards are supposed to provide recommendations for Hugo Award voters (and implicitly for Nebula Award and World Fantasy Award voters as well), this sort of ranking makes some sense. After all, even though the fact that a particular book won the Locus Award provides a certain level of information, the fact that another book finished second, while a third book finished twelfth provides even more. On the other hand, for some of the categories, this sort of detailed information is overkill. After all, do we really need to know which single fanzine issue ranked fifth and which one ranked tenth overall?

Best Novel
Winner:
1.   Ringworld by Larry Niven

Other Nominees:
2.   (tie) Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
      (tie) The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker
4.   And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
5.   (tie) Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg
      (tie) Fourth Mansions by R.A. Lafferty
7.   Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
8.   The Tactics of Mistake by Gordon R. Dickson
9.   I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein
10. Star Light by Hal Clement
11. Beastchild by Dean Koontz
12. Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
13. Chronocules by D.G. Compton
14. The Steel Crocodile by D.G. Compton
15. Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
16. After Things Fell Apart by Ron Goulart

Best Short Story
Winner:
1.   The Region Between by Harlan Ellison

Other Nominees:
2.   The Snow Women by Fritz Leiber
3.   Continued on Next Rock by R.A. Lafferty
4.   Beastchild by Dean Koontz
5.   In the Queue by Keith Laumer

6.   Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

7.   Runesmith by Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon
8.   Brillo by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
9.   The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
10. (tie) Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
      (tie) Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R.A. Lafferty
      (tie) The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
13. The Throwbacks by Robert Silverberg

14. Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Best Anthology or Collection
Winner:

1.   The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume I, 1929-1964 edited by Robert Silverberg

Other Nominees:
2.   Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R.A. Lafferty
3.   Orbit 6 edited by Damon Knight
4.   World's Best Science Fiction: 1970 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr
5.   Orbit 7 edited by Damon Knight
6.   Quark/1 edited by Samuel R. Delany and Marilyn Hacker
7.   Five Fates edited by Anonymous
8.   The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde by Norman Spinrad
9.   Alchemy and Academe edited by Anne McCaffrey
10. Alpha One by Robert Silverberg
11. The Reluctant Shaman by L. Sprague de Camp
12. Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber
13. Great Short Novels of Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg
14. Orbit 8 edited by Damon Knight
15. Nova 1 edited by Harry Harrison

Best Magazine
Winner:
1. Fantasy & Science Fiction

Other Nominees:
2. Analog
3. Galaxy
4. Amazing Stories
5. Fantastic
6. If
7. Vision of Tomorrow
8. Worlds of Fantasy

Best Fanzine
Winner:
1.   Locus

Other Nominees:
2.   Science Fiction Review
3.   Outworlds
4.   Energumen
5.   Speculation
6.   Yandro
7.   Warhoon
8.   SF Commentary
9.   Luna
10. Focal Point
11. Granfalloon
12. WSFA Journal
13. Riverside Quarterly
14. Amra
15. Tolkien Journal
16. Egoboo

Best Single Fanzine Issue
Winner:
1.   Locus #70

Other Nominees:
2.   Outworlds #4
3.   Warhoon #27
4.   Focal Point #12.5
5.   (tie) Science Fiction Review #39
      (tie) Yandro #200
7.   Energumen #2
8.   (tie) Energumen #4
      (tie) Granfalloon #9
10. Science Fiction Review #41
11. Energumen #3
12. The Essence #2
13. (tie) Anomaly #2
      (tie) SF Commentary #17
15. Locus #66

Best Fan Writer
Winner:
1.   Harry Warner, Jr.

Other Nominees:
2.   Dick Geis
3.   Charlie Brown
4.   Liz Fishman
5.   Terry Carr
6.   Ted White
7.   Ted Pauls
8.   Bob Shaw
9.   Bob Tucker
10. Piers Anthony
11. Rosemary Ullyot
12. (tie) Mike Glicksohn
      (tie) Juanita Coulson
13. Gregory Benford

Best Fan Critic
Winner:
1.   Ted Pauls

Other Nominees:
2.   Paul Walker
3.   Richard Delap
4.   Charlie Brown
5.   Dick Geis
6.   Buck Coulson
7.   Fred Patten
8.   Bruce Gillespie
9.   Alexei Panshin
10. Chris Couch
11. John Foyster
12. Dena Brown
13. Ted White
14. Sandra Miesel
15. Alexis Gilliland

Best Paperback Cover Illustrator
Winner:
1.   Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

Other Nominees:
2.   Jeff Jones
3.   Frank Kelly Freas
4.   Jack Gaughan
5.   Frank Frazetta
6.   George Barrv
7.   (tie) John Schoenherr
      (tie) Steele Savage
9.   Dean Ellis
10. Robert Pepper
11. Gervasio Gallardo
12. Jim Steranko
13. Paul Lehr
14. Gene Szafran
15. James Bama

Best Fan Artist
Winner:
1.   Alicia Austin

Other Nominees:
2.   Tim Kirk
3.   George Barr
4.   Steve Fabian
5.   Mike Gilbert
6.   Bill Rotsler
7.   Grant Canfield
8.   James Shull
9.   Derek Carter
10. Atom
11. Bjo Trimble
12. (tie) Connie Faddis
      (tie) Vincent Di Fate
14. Jim McLeod
15. Vaughn Bodé
16. Eddie Jones

Best Fan Cartoonist
Winner:
1.   Bill Rotsler

Other Nominees:
2.   Tim Kirk
3.   Steve Stiles
4.   ATom
5.   Derek Carter
6.   Grant Canfield
7.   Alexis Gilliland
8.   Jay Kinney
9.   Mike Gilbert
10. Vaughn Bodé
11. Doug Lovenstein
12. Jonh Ingham
13. Jack Gaughan
14. Jeff Schalles

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1971 Mythopoeic Award Nominees

Location: Unknown

Comments: In 1971 the Mythopoeic Society created the Mythopoeic Awards with two categories - one for Best Fantasy Literature, and one for Scholarship in Inklings Studies. The second award category focuses on scholarship related to the works of the Inklings - a groups that included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, Roger Lancelyn Green, Hugo Dyson, and several others. But the interesting thing here is that this award for scholarship relating to the Inklings was created while several of the Inklings, such as Tolkien, Green, and Dyson, were still alive. There is something that seems just a little audacious about creating an award for scholarship relating to a group with several living members, which seems like an odd thing to say about an organization dedicated to studying and honoring a collection of university professors who liked to get together to drink and swap stories.

Best Adult Fantasy Literature

Winner:
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

Other Nominees:
Deryni Rising by Katherine Kurtz
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian by Lloyd Alexander
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies

Winner:
(tie) C.S. Kilby
(tie) Mary McDermott Shideler

Other Nominees:
None

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1971 Hugo Award Nominees

Location: Noreascon I in Boston, Massachusetts.

Comments: 1971 was a fairly ordinary year for the Hugo Awards, with only two notable elements, both of which are somewhat negative.

First: After a couple of years in which women made inroads in the male dominated field of science fiction, the 1971 ballot was devoid of any female writers in the fiction categories.

Second: Despite a somewhat weak array of nominees, the result of "No Winner" in the Best Dramatic Presentation category was still something of an embarrassment - either Colossus: The Forbin Project or No Blade of Grass would have both been worthy winners. This marked the third time that the Best Dramatic Presentation Award had a "No Winner" result. The Best Dramatic Presentation category did have some interesting new nominees in the field, with two albums nominated, one by Paul Kantner, formerly of Jefferson Airplane, performing on Blows Against the Empire with the embryonic Jefferson Starship, and the second by comedy troupe Firesign Theatre.

Best Novel

Winner:
Ringworld by Larry Niven

Other Nominees:
Star Light by Hal Clement
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

Best Novella

Winner:

Ill-Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Other Nominees:
Beastchild by Dean R. Koontz
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The World Outside by Robert Silverberg
The Snow Women by Fritz Leiber

Best Short Story

Winner:

Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Other Nominees:
Brillo by Ben Bova and Harlan Ellison
Continued on Next Rock by R.A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
Jean Duprès by Gordon R. Dickson

Best Dramatic Presentation

Winner:
No Winner

Other Nominees:
Blows Against the Empire (album)
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers (album)
Hauser's Memory (television movie)
No Blade of Grass

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 Ejler Jakobsson
Vision of Tomorrow edited by Philip Harbottle

Best Professional Artist

Winner:
Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon

Other Nominees:
Frank Kelly Freas
Jack Gaughan
Eddie Jones
Jeff Jones

Best Fanzine

Winner:

Locus edited by Charles N. Brown and Dena Brown

Other Nominees:
Energumen edited by Michael Glicksohn and Susan Glicksohn
Outworlds edited by Bill Bowers and Joan Bowers
Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
Speculation edited by Peter R. Weston

Best Fan Writer

Winner:

Richard E. Geis

Other Nominees:
Terry Carr
Tom Digby
Elizabeth Fishman
Ted Pauls

Best Fan Artist

Winner:

Alicia Austin

Other Nominees:
Steve Fabian
Mike Gilbert
Tim Kirk
Bill Rotsler

What Are the Hugo Awards?

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1971 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Les Champs Restaurant, New York City, New York.

Comments: 1971 was the first year in which the Nebula Awards returned a "No Winner" result, with "No Winner" being the leading vote getting in the Best Short Story category. This result seems to have been the result of some confusion, and also caused some moderate controversy. It seems that some voters turned in a "No Winner" vote with the intention of abstaining rather than choosing no winner. We'll never know for certain if rectifying this confusion would have resulted in a winner for the award, as many of the voters from thirty-plus years ago are no longer with us, and of those who are, it seems unlikely that they would remember exactly how they voted after all these years.

The controversy resulted when Isaac Asimov, announcing with winner for the Best Short Story award, mistakenly announced the author who probably should have won the award: Gene Wolfe who had been nominated for The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories. Asimov was quickly informed of the error, and changed the announcement, but the mistaken announcement caused him a fair amount of embarrassment. This result, which seemingly resulted from confusion on the part of some voters, seems to indicate that even five years after they were first created, the Nebula Awards was still experiencing some growing pains.

Best Novel

Winner:
Ringworld by Larry Niven

Other Nominees:
And Chaos Died by Joanna Russ
Fourth Mansions by R.A. Lafferty
The Steel Crocodile by D.G. Compton
Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg
The Year of the Quiet Sun by Wilson Tucker

Best Novella

Winner:

Ill Met in Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Other Nominees:
April Fool's Day Forever by Kate Wilhelm
The Fatal Fulfillment by Poul Anderson
The Region Between by Harlan Ellison
A Style in Treason by James Blish
The Thing in the Stone by Clifford D. Simak
The Snow Women by Fritz Leiber

Best Novelette

Winner:

Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon (reviewed in The Hugo Winners, Volume 3, Book 1)

Other Nominees:
The Asian Shore by Thomas M. Disch
Continued on Next Rock by R.A. Lafferty
Dear Aunt Annie by Gordon Eklund
The Second Inquisition by Joanna Russ
The Shaker Revival by Gerald Jonas

Best Short Story

Winner:
No Winner

Other Nominees:
By the Falls by Harry Harrison
A Cold Dark Night With Snow by Kate Wilhelm
The Creation of Bennie Good by James Sallis
A Dream at Noonday by Gardner Dozois
Entire and Perfect Chrysolite by R.A. Lafferty
In the Queue by Keith Laumer
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories by Gene Wolfe

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1970 Nebula Award Nominees

Location: Unknown.

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

What Are the Hugo Awards?

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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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