Category Archives: Numbers

Numbered Songs

  • 3 AM | Matchbox Twenty
  • Zero Sum Game | The Burroughs
  • One of These Days | FFH
  • Love Potion #9 | The Searchers
  • 867-5309 | Tommy Tutone
  • If I Had $1,000,000 | Barenaked Ladies
  • Million Pieces | Newsboys
  • A Million Years | Johnnyswim
  • The One I’m Waiting For | Relient K
  • 7 Things | Miley Cyrus
  • 7 Years | Lukas Graham
  • A Few More Days | Matthew West
  • 100 Years | Five For Fighting
  • 1000 Years | Christina Perri
  • 10,000 Reasons | Matt Redman
  • Three Times a Lady | Kenny Rogers
  • Nine in the Afternoon | Panic! at the Disco
  • I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) | The Proclaimers
  • One | Lewis Capaldi
  • Mambo No. 5 | Lou Bega
  • 9 to 5 | Dolly Parton
  • June 18, 1976 | Pedro the Lion
  • Til I’m Ninety Nine | Nathan Angelo
  • 99 Problems | Jay-Z
  • FourFiveSeconds | Kanye West, Rhianna, Paul McCartney
  • 4 Minutes | Madonna, Justin Timberlake
  • Another One Bites the Dust | Queen
  • Eight Days a Week | The Beatles
  • Three Little Birds | Bob Marley
  • One is The Loneliest Number | Three Dog Night
  • 1979 | Smashing Pumpkins
  • 1985 | Bowling For Soup
  • Six Feet Under | The Weeknd
  • Sk8ter Boy | Avril Lavigne
  • One Thing Remains | Jeremy Riddle
  • High of 75 | Relient K
  • Fifteen | Taylor Swift
  • Two of a Kind, Workin on a Full House | Garth Brooks
  • A Billion Starving People | Keith Green
  • Two of a Crime | Miranda Lambert
  • 50 Something Cats | Deadmau5
  • 42 | Coldplay

Twenty Seven

  • This Etsy shop
  • The number of bones in your hand
  • Number of books in the New Testament
  • Number of letters in the Spanish alphabet
  • The atomic number of the element Cobalt
  • How many days it takes the moon to orbit the earth
  • How many identical coins you should keep in your home to ensure economic prosperity (according to the principal of Feng Shui)
  • The number of years in the cycle followed by Pennywise the clown
  • Kilometers in the circumference of the Large Hadron Collider
  • The age at which Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison died
  • This song, which alludes to the previous bullet point
  • How many piano concertos Mozart composed
  • This book called “Twenty Seven Hours of Will”
  • How many Outs are in a full game of baseball
  • A perfect cube (3 x 3 x 3)
  • The year in the 1900s in which Mickey Mouse was invented
  • Number of pieces in a Rubik’s Cube
  • How many days it takes for your skin cells to replace themselves
cobalt | Definition & Facts | Britannica

Sixteen Things That Happened on the Sixteenth

  • April 16, 1178BC – A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
  • February 16, 374 – 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
  • February 16, 600 – Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze
  • November 16, 1380 – French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
  • October 16, 1492 – Columbus and his fleet anchor at “Fernandina” (Long Island, Bahamas)
  • September 16, 1795 – British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch
  • March 16, 1830 – Slowest day ever recorded on NYSE  (31 shares traded)
  • June 16, 1858 – Abraham Lincoln says “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, while accepting nomination to Senate
  • July 16, 1861 – Battle of Bull Run  (First major battle in Civil War)
  • January 16, 1870 – Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
  • May 16, 1919 – Birth of Liberace
  • December 16, 1929 – Chicago Blackhawks first game at Chicago Stadium (Defeated Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1)
  • January 16, 1973 – NBC airs final episode of Bonanza
  • November 16, 1981 – Luke & Laura marry on General Hospital
  • May 16, 2013 – Human stem cells are successfully cloned
  • March 16, 2017 – Donald Trump’s second travel ban is blocked by two federal court judges

 

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus
Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus

Tuesday Twos-day

  • two of a kind
  • tea for two
  • two shakes of a lamb’s tail
  • bicycle built for two
  • two by four
  • two step
  • two is company
  • two peas in a pod
  • a one, and a two…
  • put two and two together
  • catch 22
  • two cents worth
  • goody two shoes
  • two heads are better than one
  • two wrongs don’t make a right
  • take two aspirin and call me in the morning
  • terrible twos
  • kill two birds with one stone
  • two can play
  • two to tango

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Friday the 13th

1/13/2012 – Cruise ship Costa Concordia wrecks off the coast of Italy
3/13/2009 – “Saw – the Ride” roller coaster opens at the Thorpe Park amusement center in England
4/13/2004 – Famous chef Julia Child dies at the age of 91
10/13/1989 – Dow Jones Industrial stocks take the 2nd greatest plummet as of that time
6/13/1986 – Twins Mary Kate & Ashley Olson are born
10/13/1972 – A plane crash sets off an epic tale of survival & rescue, eventually retold in the book and movie “Alive”
2/13/1976 – Figure skater Dorothy Hammill wins gold at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria
9/13/1940 – Five German bombs destroy the chapel at Buckingham Palace
6/13/1930 – England’s first nudist colony officially opens
7/13/1923 – California land developer Harry Chandler unveils “HOLLYWOODLAND” sign
1/13/1894 – America’s first patent for an accordion is filed
7/13/1832 – American explorer Henry Rowe Schoolcraft discovers the source of the Mississippi River
11/13/1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes his famous line “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.”

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