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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