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Postby Dragon Star » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:22 am

Galaxy NGC26 is located in Pegasus.
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Postby Superluminal » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:03 am

A pitcher holding a team to only 27 at bats, is a perfect game.
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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:01 pm

28 days in the shortest month of the year, except 24 times a century.
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Postby Superluminal » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:45 pm

^^^29 makes that a leap year.^^^
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Postby Arneb » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:23 am

30 years since the terrible fall of 1977, ("Deutscher Herbst", German autumn) when the Red Army Faction was on a terrorist rampage. I was a kid then, but I seem to remember the leaden atmosphere of those days.
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Postby Lance » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:26 pm

The USofA celebrated it's bicentennial 31 years ago.

(Damn, it's really been that long?)
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Postby KLA2 » Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:17 pm

The 80386 was the first 32 bit processor

(bet you thought you had nodded off when you saw "80386" :lol: )
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Postby troubleagain » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:40 am

33 was the age of Jesus at his crucifixion (according to the Christian bible, anyway.)
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Postby Мастер » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:57 am

Arneb wrote:In 20 years, my son will be allowed to drink beer in Texas.


Assuming they don't change the law between now and then :P

It has been 34 years since Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won the Nobel peace prize.
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Postby Arneb » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:29 am

35 is the minimum age to become Federal President of Germany. For all other officices awarded by a vote, it is 21 ("passive voting right", as we call it).
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:05 pm

36th year of the 20th century, the 200 inch Mount Palomar mirror blank is shipped for grinding.

(Sad events also occur :cry: )

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Postby umop ap!sdn » Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:12 pm

37 is the atomic number of rubidium.

(Surely not that the construction of the Mt. Palomar telescope is a sad event? :? )
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Postby Arneb » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:37 pm

My last days as a 38 year-old.
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:03 pm

39: unlucky times three?

[Thanks, umop: sloppy me, fixed it, whee. :oops: }
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Postby troubleagain » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:55 pm

40 Days and nights it rained on Noah et al. (Okay, not a fact, whatever.)
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Postby Arneb » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:12 am

1941: Hitler's Germany invades the USSR, in retrospect the final nail in his coffin. The suffering that resulted from this act is unimaginable.
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Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:33 am

42 - The answer to life, the universe and everything.
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Postby Arneb » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:16 pm

I thought you would say that - it was hard one to give away.

And now for something completely different:

43 B.C., Publius Ovidius Naso born in Sulmo

43 A.D., the year Britain (except Scotland, of course) was finally conquered by the Romans.
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Postby Heid the Ba » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:24 pm

I was sitting waiting for 42 to come up. :D

44 - John Riggins
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Postby troubleagain » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:35 pm

45 RPM's--the speed of the little records I wish I still had and hadn't dumped.
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Postby Arneb » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:46 pm

46 - the number of the human chromosomes.
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Postby troubleagain » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:01 pm

The 47th problem of Euclid is used as a Masonic symbol.

For the benefit of those who may have forgotten their geometry days, the Forty-Seventh Problem is here simply stated; in any right triangle, the sum of the squares of the two sides is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. This is demonstrably true regardless of the length of either side. But in the Problem as diagrammed in the lodge, and for simplicity’s sake it is usually shown with sides the proportions of which are as three, and four units when the hypotenuse, or longest side of the triangle will be as five units. If one draws on paper a line three inches long, and at right angles to it , and joined to one end, a line four inches long, then the line connecting the two ends will be five inches long when the angle is a perfect right angle, or one of ninety degrees. The square of 3 is 9. The square of 4 is 16. The sum of 9 and 16 is 25. The square root of 25 is 5.

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Postby pmcolt » Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:22 pm

There are 48 contiguous states in these United States. And two freakish outliers.
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Postby Superluminal » Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:49 am

Alaska was the 49th state.
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Postby Мастер » Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:12 am

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