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Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:37 am

51st (Highland) Division, Scotland's most famous fighting formation.
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Postby Arneb » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:01 am

My hometown, Berlin , is situated around the 52nd parallel.
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Postby troubleagain » Wed Oct 17, 2007 4:02 pm

53 is the atomic number of Iodine.
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Postby pmcolt » Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:37 pm

54 is the answer to the question: "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?"
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Postby Arneb » Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:21 pm

55, the age at which Julius Caear died (13 July, 100 B.C. - 15 March, 44 B.C.)
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Postby KLA2 » Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:52 pm

Hickson 56, A Compact Group of 5 Galaxies in Ursa Major
aka Arp 322
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Postby Superluminal » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:28 am

M-57, is a planetary nebula in Lyra.
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Postby Arneb » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:32 pm

58 years ago, Federal Republic of Germany, and German Democratic Republic founded.
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Postby troubleagain » Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:25 pm

Only 3 people have gotten a score of 59 in the PGA, and one in the LPGA.
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Postby St. Jimmy » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:35 pm

The 60th traditional wedding anneversary gift is diamond.
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Postby Arneb » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:53 pm

1961: Yuri Gagarin in orbit inside Vostok 1; Berlin wall built.
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Postby Мастер » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:38 pm

1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
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Postby troubleagain » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:56 pm

Michael Jordan scored a record 63 points in a Chicago Bulls –Boston Celtics (double-overtime) NBA playoff game on April 20, 1986

(Straight from Wiki. I wasn't watching B-ball back then.)
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:09 pm

The Commodore 64. 64k of RAM. Who needed more?
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Postby Arneb » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:31 pm

65 is the (official) pension age in most Western countries.
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Postby pmcolt » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:33 pm

I've never traveled historic Route 66
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:46 pm

1967 the summer of looove. :D

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Postby troubleagain » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:56 pm

1968--Bobby Kennedy and MLK Jr. assassinated. Not so lovely. :cry:
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Postby Arneb » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:11 pm

69. I know what youfolks are thinking...
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Postby Superluminal » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:27 am

^^^First moon landing, what else could it be?^^^

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Postby troubleagain » Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:15 pm

It took 71 judges in the Sanhedrin to try a death-pentalty case.
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Postby KLA2 » Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:39 pm

The Rule of 72: to find the approximate number of years required to double your money at a given interest rate (compounded annually), you just divide the interest rate into 72

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Postby Arneb » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:03 pm

73 years ago: The first Football World Cup on European soil (host and winner: Italy)
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Postby Мастер » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:32 pm

KLA2 wrote:The Rule of 72: to find the approximate number of years required to double your money at a given interest rate (compounded annually), you just divide the interest rate into 72

Check it here
http://www.moneychimp.com/features/rule72.htm


Geeze. Why not just calculate log(2)/log(1+r)?

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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:32 pm

1975 Apollo-Soyuz link up in space. :D

Thomas Stafford, Alexei Leonov, "Deke" Slayton, Vance Brand, Valery Kubasov :=D:
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