Strange Occurences of 23

Chick Track 23

Several years ago I started noticing a peculiar little facet of personal numerology. The number 23 seemed to pop up in my life more often than any other number. I subsequently learned that Robert Anton Wilson's surreal occult classic The Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret Of The Illuminati deals with what he calls The 23 Enigma. He connects the synchronous occurances of the number 23 with the Illuminati, "...the secret, invisible society that has been playing head trips with mankind since the beginning of time." According to Terry Alden, who has done significant research into numerological enigmas, Wilson relates his own observations to the works of Leary, Gurdjieff, Castaneda, and Crowley, and makes a case not easily dismissed that men are being contacted and experimented upon by more intelligent beings who share the universe with us. Members of this secret society are said to be in telepathic contact with advanced beings in the star system of Sirius. They use the number 23, and the eye-in-the-pyramid design of traditional occultism (or the Eye of Horus in ancient Egyptian symbolism) as their mystical seal and emblem.

Wilson relates synchronicity to modern theoretical physics by associating it with the Quantum Inseparability Principle and its extension, The Bootstrap Theory. The former holds that every particle in the Universe affects every other particle everywhere. The latter contends that everything causes everything, every which way in time. These are termed "non-local" models in modern physics and such models are not restricted by the speed-of-light limit. They allow, for example, the future to determine the present as much as the past. From The Cosmic Trigger:

"Non-local theories, like Jung's synchronicity, take us out of the Newtonian action-reaction machine and bring us eerily close to the logic of the I Ching and Taoism, in which the seemingly random tossing of three coins may reveal an archetypal pattern of both personal and cosmological significance. With that kind of rationale (or rationalization) I accepted the 23 enigma as a signal that I should attempt to decipher."
Cognizant of other synchronous occurences of 23, I now notice the number popping up everywhere: in movies, on the backs of trucks, stamped mysteriously on the envelopes of junk mail, etc. Following is my running list of these occurences, both personal and of historical significance. Most recent occurences are listed at the end.

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    Historical Occurences of the Number 23

  1. In the year 2000, when Jesus supposedly comes back to wreak vengeance on the heathens, Easter will be on March 23.
  2. Peter Lorre died on 3/23/1964. If you add 3+1+9+6+4 you get 23.
  3. The standard Georgia income tax deduction in 1996 was $2300.
  4. Basketball player Michael Jordan's retired number is 23. Also, his father was murdered on the 23rd.
  5. 2 octaves consist of a range of 23 notes.
  6. Stan Laurel died on 2/23/1965. 2+1+9+6+5=23, so there are 2 23s there. My birthday is 2/23/1969. 1+9+6+9=25-2=23. 1=9+6+9+2+2+3 = 32, 23 in reverse. So there's 3 23s there. 2 from before, 3 from here, is 23. Also, 32/26 (my age) = 1.23.
  7. 23,000 students took the SAT exams in mid-1995.
  8. Both the bombing in Oklahoma (TERROR IN THE HEARTLAND!!!! (big bombastic music)) and the Waco thingy happened on 4/19 (19+4=23).
  9. Uranium 235 is the preferred radioactive element in most nuclear weaponry.
  10. The round used by Oswald was the standard NATO round of 5.56 milimeters. When this metric designation of bullet caliber is translated into the percentage-of-an-inch caliber commonly used in the US (ie .45 caliber, .38 caliber, .22 caliber) it is written as... .223 caliber.
  11. According to Meatloaf when he was a guest on Politically Incorrect, "23% of all Americans have watched every minute" of the OJ Simpson trial.
  12. On March 23, the water level in the Neely Nuclear reactor on the Georgia Tech campus (yes, in the heart of Atlanta) dropped substantially, causing alarms to go off.
  13. There are 23,000 parking spaces at Hartsfield International Airport here in Atlanta.
  14. John Waters was in town one week, and he was on the radio discussing mass murderers, and he mentioned that Leslie Van Houten and the rest of the Manson Family have been in prison for 23 years (as of 1995).
  15. In 1995, Dr. Kevorkian assisted his 23rd suicide.
  16. The final episode ever of that evil TV show Full House aired on May 23rd, 1995.
  17. The IEEE standard for 32-bit floating-point number representation allocates 23 bits to store the significand, 8 bits for the exponent, and 1 bit to flag positive or negative.
  18. The sock found at OJ Simpson's house had 23 spots of the victims' blood.
  19. Only 23% of Prodigy users polled by Politically Incorrect think that the FBI is more dangerous to America than the cast of Beverly Hills 90210.
  20. Beethoven was 23 when he composed his first piano sonata. Oh, and his Moonlight Sonata was #23.
  21. George Reeves, who played Superman on television in the 50s, shot himself with a gun at approximately 2:30 in the morning.
  22. If you watch the movie Quiz Show, John Turturro is in a restaurant with the show's producer, and is irate at being asked to give a wrong answer and lose on purpose. To prove his vast knowledge he yells at the waiter to pick a number, any number, and the waiter says "I dunno....23?" Turturro then begins to spout facts and dates and events associated with the number...
  23. The human body has 46 chromosomes, which are paired, in somatic cells. Generative cells have half this number, 23, which is the number of chromosones each parent gives to human deoxyribinucleic acid.
  24. In 1993 a total of 23,271 people were killed with firearms in America.
  25. According to US News and World Report, only 23% of Hollywood's decision-makers belong to an organized religion.
  26. The Nationsbank building in Atlanta is 1023 feet tall.
  27. On April 23rd of 1996, Robert O'Donell, the guy who saved Baby Jessica from the well in 1988, killed himself with a shotgun.
  28. Information Superhighway has 23 letters.
  29. Way back in November of 94, the Georgia Bulldogs tied with auburn, 23-23.
  30. To describe the entire human body for the purposes of mapping the behaviour of the skeleton in a computer, the simulator needs to monitor 23 total bone rotations.
  31. It takes 23 gallons of water to produce a pound of tomatoes (according to statistics).
  32. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran was first published in 1923.
  33. The House Subcomittee on Labor, Health, and Human Services voted to cut by $23 million the remainder of the HIV prevention money alloted in 1995 to the Atlanta-based CDC.
  34. In issue #3 of the Vertigo Comics Tank Girl miniseries, the cover shows Tank Girl wearing a tight bra/halter thingy with a big circled 23 on each breast.
  35. Computer Hacker Kevin Mitnick, who was captured last year in a high-profile FBI manhunt, faces 23 Federal counts for illegal use of telephone lines and computer systems.
  36. Susan Smith was 23 years old when she drowned her children.
  37. Jerry Garcia was found dead in his bed at Serenity Knolls, a drug treatment center, at 4:23 a.m.
  38. According to a wacky mailing from the NRA, prosecutions of Federal weapons violations have plummeted 23% in the first two years of the Clinton presidency. They are trying to make it look like THEY want tougher laws passed against gun-toting criminals, so we won't notice when they lobby congress to make it legal to sell surface-to-air rocket launchers at Wal-Marts in every small town. For hunting purposes, you know.
  39. Walt Disney studios was founded by Walter E. and Roy O. Disney in 1923.
  40. A quote from the documentary 'Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media' (1992): "In North America there are: 7 major movie studios and more than 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,000 TV stations, 2,500 book publishers. 23 corporations own and control over 50% of the business in each medium. In some cases they have a virtual monopoly."
  41. A poll of Perot voters found that 23% had favorable opinions of Clinton, and 23% also had favorable opinions of Dole.
  42. A small plane crash one week in Carrollton, GA initially left 23 of 29 passengers alive.
  43. In 1923 the Attorney General said it was legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.
  44. The 8-hour work week was established by the Carnegie Steel Corp. in 1923.
  45. The Times Best-seller list estimates that Newt Gingrich's book will earn 2.3 million if all 665,000 copies are sold.
  46. Dwayne Goettel, drummer for the industrial band Skinny Puppy, died of a heroin overdose in Edmonton on August 23rd, 1996.
  47. The movie Mortal Kombat had a $23 million opening weekend.
  48. The science fiction TV show Max Headroom revolved around the mega-corporate network for which Edison Carter worked: Network 23.
  49. Over the course of his career, Bob Dole has accepted $23,000 in campaign contributions from Time-Warner, the company he lambasted for dumping violent "smut" like Pulp Fiction on our children.
  50. According to statistics, the total value of office buildings in Atlanta has increased 23.2 percent in the past four years.
  51. Georgia's Senator Sam Nunn is declining to run again in 1996 after 23 years in the Senate.
  52. In the cheeseball yet embarrasingly entertaining movie Hackers, Penn Jilette and the Bad Hacker (Fisher Stevens? somebody shoot the casting director) sit down at the massive corporate computer system to catch the Good Hackers who are breaking in...they log into "Terminal 23".
  53. Warner Brothers was founded in 1923.
  54. Weeks before Rock Hudson's death 10 years ago today, he had flown to France to try the then-experimental drug HPA23, but was deemed to be in too poor health.
  55. One of the few trials that took longer than OJ Simpson's, the Hillside Strangler case in LA, took 23 months to complete.
  56. Food stamps, the government's largest welfare program, provided $23 billion in benefits to Americans in 1994.
  57. According to publisher's statistics, Americans spent $23.8 billion on books in 1994.
  58. That 1-Million-Man march on Washington thingy was planned to cover 23 blocks.
  59. On The Simpsons one night Lisa tries to convince the local jazz station to play a tribute to Bleeding Gums Murphy, the late Jazzman, but the station only has a broadcast range of "23 feet."
  60. According to the US Labor Department's Bureau of Statistics, America's national work force consists of 123 million employed people.
  61. River Phoenix was 23 years old when he died.
  62. The brand spanking new Atlanta stadium being built for the Olympics was $23 million over-budget in early 1996.
  63. In 1996 a rebel bomb went off at an oil facility in Sri Lanka, killing 23 security personnel.
  64. NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terri Gross featured a story in 1996 in which the guest was talking about an innovative, eccentric, gay British record producer, Joe Meek, who had a fixation with Buddy Holly. He went to a seance after which he predicted Buddy Holly would die in a plane crash on Feb 3, 1958 (2/3). Months later he told Holly about it. On Feb 3, 1959 (2/3), Holly died in a plane crash. Meek killed his landlord & himself on Feb 3, 1968 (2/3).
  65. In 1996 Newt Gingrich nixed a congressional proposal to sell off 23 federally controlled hydro-electric projects (dams and lakes) in the southeast because it jeapordized the career of influential GOP Kentucky governor Larry Forgy.
  66. September 23rd is the National Day of the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia.
  67. The house where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962 is at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in the Brentwood Section of LA.
  68. Nevada has 23 parks and recreation areas.
  69. On The Simpson's 138th episode anniversary special, there was a blurb at the beginning informing us that the show contains "at least twenty-three percent" new material.
  70. Liberal congresswoman Pat Schroeder is retiring from the House of Representatives after 23 years of service. This year, 23 members in all are choosing not to run again (1996).
  71. According to the NRA's statisics, in 1986-1996, 23% of cop-killers were on parole at the time of the killing.
  72. In the pseudo-scifi movie Strange Days, there's this scene where his friend is about to off him, and he makes a reference to his handgun, a Glock 23.
  73. In the 12 Days of Christmas, 6 of the 12 items are birds: 1 partridge, 2 turtle doves, 3 french hens, 4 calling birds, 6 geese a layin', and 7 swans a swimmin'. The total number of gift fowl present is indeed 23.
  74. In 1995 the air ducts were cleaned out in Grand Central Station for the first time in 100 years. Some idiot turned on the fan too early and the resulting dust cloud incapacitated 23 people.
  75. Shakespeare was born and died on April 23rd. His first folio was published in 1623. 23 + 23 = 46 and Shakespeare was 46 years old in the year 1610, the year the King James Bible was published. Psalm 23 in that translation has as its 23rd word "shake" while the 23rd word from its end is "spear".
  76. On Christmas Eve '95 a fire broke out in the Pittsburgh Zoo's primate cage, killing 23 animals, many of whom were on endangered lists.
  77. Nixon's number in college football was 23.
  78. In 1932 bootlegger "Dutch" Schultz had 23-year-old Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll murdered on 23rd Street in New York City. Schultz himself was assassinated on October 23, 1935, and his convicted assassin, Charlie Workman, served 23 years of a life sentence before he was paroled.
  79. "The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel." -Matthew 1:23
  80. Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential of the early avant-garde artists, gave up formal art with his last official work, Broken Glass, in 1923.
  81. In the movie IQ, at the end Albert Einstein (Matthau) is using his telescope from his porch at night, and verbally reads off the degrees as he adjusts it, stopping at 23.
  82. As Jesus hung on the cross dying, one criminal crucified with him taunted: "Aren't you the Christ? Save yourself and us!" (Luke 23:39)
  83. Cigar-smoking Tom Murphy, Georgia's speaker of the house, is in his 23rd year in that position, the longest run of any current state speaker in the country.
  84. Today (1/23/96) a teacher in LA was shot in the head by a stray bullet from a gang confrontation while his 23 students screamed and dived under their desks.
  85. In the film JFK: one scene showed a TV news show reporting 23 soldiers injured during Vietnam maneuvers, the photo of Jack Ruby was numbered 23 as evidence in the hearings, and there were 2.3 seconds between shots fired during the assassination (at 12:30 pm).
  86. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963. Oswald was supposedly shot on November 24, 1963.
  87. According to the Bible, erroneous conspiratorial assumptions began to undermine the pure gospel practically from the moment Jesus appeared. His enemies accused him of working for Satan, subverting the scriptures, and of plotting to overthrow the government (Luke 23:1-2).
  88. In the film Babe, the pig is entry number 23 in the finale's Sheep Dog competition.
  89. Irrelevant now, but in a poll prior to the Georgia primary, 23% of the people said they would vote for Pat Buchanan.
  90. In a Windows magazine poll concerning users' dislikes of the internet, 23% considered it too costly to use (what? you're uncomfortable with giving your credit card number to AOL?)
  91. The cartoon strip Dilbert (king of computer geeks worldwide) appears in 900 newspapers in 23 countries.
  92. There was an early Sunday morning suicide bus bomb in Jeruseleum in February 1996 which killed 23 people. The bomber was 23 years old.
  93. In Barton Fink, the room number of Charlie (John Goodman) next door to Barton is 623.
  94. In February 1996 a 23-year-old man was killed in Fallston, Md. when his car smashed into a truck carrying burial vaults.
  95. The Watts Bar nuclear plant in Tennessee received its operating license after 23 years of construction. The plant is closer to Atlanta than Savannah and will be licensed until the year 2035.
  96. Ron Brown's White House plane crashed in 1996 from 2300 feet.
  97. According to the bag, Lay's potato chips are made daily in 23 cities across America.
  98. In the movie The Prophecy; Eric Stoltz kills the Angel Lieutenant of Gabriel (Christopher Walken), who is carrying a copy of Chapter 23 of Revelations describing a war amongst the Angels.
  99. Revelations stops at the 22nd chapter.
  100. An AOL user got their account pulled because they were spreading rumours about Courtney Love and Trent Reznor, to the effect that they were both involved in Kurt Cobain's murder. The user was Sasha23.
  101. According to the keepers of the NIST-7 atomic clock at NIST's Boulder (Colo.), 1995's leap second will be inserted at 23:59:60 Coordinated Universal Time (7 p.m. EST) on Dec. 31, 1995.
  102. Not only was Shakespeare born on April 23rd, but so was Lee Majors and Shirley Temple.
  103. The world's oldest man is 123 years old (1996).
  104. A silent version of the Ten Commandments was filmed by Cecil B. Demille in 1923.
  105. The Washington Post reported in January that, in preparation of the outdoor gallows for the first death-row hanging in 50 years (for convicted murderer Billy Bailey), workers affixed non-skid safety strips to each of the 23 steps up.
  106. In 1991 George Hennard drove his pickup through the window of a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas and opened fire killing 23 and injuring 22 people.
  107. Stages, a local theatre company, recently held a 4-day run for ALONE!, a Netherlands production of an interactive play containing 23 scenes chosen by the spectators (kinda like those crappy D&D choose-your-own-adventure books).
  108. Clay seal imprints dated to the 23rd century BC have identified the ruins of Tell Mozan in NE Syria as the Biblical city of Urkesh.
  109. CBS' hospital drama Chicago Hope ranked No. 23 among all primetime series this past season (1996).
  110. On 11/23/76, Jerry Lee Lewis was arrested outside of Graceland after waving a pistol and demanding to see the King.
  111. In a study of 23,000 women, those who took more than 10,000 IUs of vitamin A a day in supplemental form were nearly 5 times more likely to give birth to babies with birth defects.
  112. Joan Miro, a surrealist painter, had a "constellation series" consisting of 23 works, one of which, "the beautiful bird revealing the unknown to a pair of lovers", painted on July 23, 1941, appears on pg.123 of "The World of Marcel Duchamp", an art book on the surrealists.
  113. Rudolph Valentino died August 23rd, 1926. 2+3+1+9+2+6 = 23.
  114. AT&T occupies 2.3 million square feet of office space in Atlanta.
  115. As of 1996, Gwinnet police had revealed 2,232 violations of insurance fraud by McFrugal Auto Rentals.
  116. Joseph W. Tkach, publisher and editor of the Worldwide Church Of God’s flagship magazine The Plain Truth died of cancer on September 23, 1995.
  117. Jesus said to the thief on the cross "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." (Luke 23:43).
  118. "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." (genesis 7:23).
  119. Fellowship with God was broken, because God cannot fellowship with sinners...and man was lost (Genesis 3.23-24).
  120. November 23rd is the birthday of serial killer Dennis Nilsen of Scotland who killed 15 young men and dismembered their bodies for easy disposal, caught when the remains clogged a sewer.
  121. Edmonton, Alberta transit worker Salim Kara, 44, was sentenced to four years in prison in March 96 for a 13-year scheme of stealing coins from fare machines. Using a rod with a magnet on one end, he had amassed $2.3 million (canadian). Noone suspected anything until he bought an $800,000 house on a $38,000 salary.
  122. An employee of Dunkin Donuts reported that on May 23rd, 1996, she was robbed by a man who said he was holding a gun under his shirt. She didn’t have the key to the register, so he grabbed a cookie instead.
  123. Man Or Astro-Man?, the instrumental surf-rock band from outer-space (Atlanta) hail from Sector 23-B6-1.
  124. 30 activists staged a calm protest outside the Cobb County Commision meeting on Tuesday, May 23rd, 1996, to call attention to the forced removal of two gay men from a previous meeting.
  125. A Bangladesh newspaper reported that 100 criminals attended the nation’s first conference of muggers on April 23rd. The leader, Mohammed Rippon, was acclaimed "Master Hijacker" by the group for his record of 21 muggings in a two-hour period.
  126. A local Atlanta businessman recently had a 12-story tower built in the shape of a torch along the Downtown Connector as a legacy of the Olympic Games. It is 123 feet tall.
  127. Lon Chaney first played The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923.
  128. The Georgia Dome is gilded with 23 carat gold.
  129. 230 people died in the crash of TWA Flight 800.
  130. Robert Downey, Jr. was arrested on June 23rd, 1996, for drug and weapon charges, and has been arrested at least twice since.
  131. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow was 23 when she started dating Brad Pitt.
  132. According to a pamhplet entitled "Manual For Above-Knee Amputees", 23% of amputations occur from accidents.
  133. In 1992 the Christian Coalition accepted as an illegal donation a check dated July 23 for $60,000 from an investment company chariman.
  134. An episode of Alex Mack on Nickelodeon had her participate in a cow-milking contest in which her number was 23.
  135. In his next-to-last year in the Senate, Bob Dole voted to raise his pay by $23,000.
  136. In the movie The Net, a mugshot number ends in 23, one of Sandra Bullock’s passwords has 23 in it, and the ip address of one of the machines has 23 in it.
  137. 23 cruise missiles were launched in 1993 as a response to an alleged assasination attempt by Kuwait on former President Bush.
  138. The starting salary for Atlanta Police Department officers is $23,580.
  139. In the movie A Boy And His Dog, 23 "screamers" attack Don Johnson and his dog.
  140. In a recent high-profile Atlanta trial, a woman was killed with 23 cuts to the skull.
  141. In recent comparison of market shares, Coke had 69% versus Pepsi’s 23%.
  142. 23% of the trash collected from US Beaches by the Center for Marine Conservancy is cigarette butts.
  143. A man cleaning a bird feeder in Toronto on his condo balcony slipped and fell 23 stories to his death. He was standing on a wheelchair.
  144. Fox held a big-screen premier of its new show Millenium on October 23rd, 1996.
  145. In 1995 the national UFO Reporting Center reported 23 UFO sightings in Pennsylvania.
  146. The Altavista web search engine advertises itself as being accessed over 23 million times daily (12/96).
  147. A man who threatened President Clinton’s life in a letter to the White House was sentenced in Columbia, SC to 23 years in prison (12/96).
  148. Palestine, formerly belonging to Turkey, was placed under British contrl in 1923.
  149. In Florida, the sugar companies successfully organized with $23 million to oppose a proposition that would tax their product a penny a pound to help clean up the Everglades. They called themselves "Citizens to Save Jobs and Stop Unfair Taxes" (11/96).
  150. After 12 shootings in Compton, CA on the night following Tupac Shakur’s murder, LA police arrested 23 gang members (8/96).
  151. According to the US Dept. Of Justice, there were 23 wiretap orders for violent crime in 1990.
  152. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
  153. Concerning X-Files: Scully’s badge number is 2317-616, she was born on 2/23/64 in Anywhere, USA (sharing my birthday), and it takes an ensemble crew of 235 people to produce the show.
  154. "Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark." Genesis 7:23
  155. In a 1996 Thanksgiving poll, 23% of Georgian blacks liked cranberries.
  156. Al Franken’s Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot spent 23 weeks on the NY Times best-seller list.
  157. A building housing Russian soldiers and their families near Chechnya collapsed in a powerful bomb blast, killing 23 people (11/96).
  158. A bomb exploded in Athens while thousands of people marched through the city center to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of a student uprising that helped end a dictatorship (11/96).
  159. The FAA reports that commercial airlines in the US have come as close as 500 feet to another plane at least 23 times in 1996.
  160. On the island of Maui, the Haleakala National Park has a volcano that is 10,023 feet high.
  161. George Bush will be the main speaker at the Nov. 23 opening of an Argentine newspaper owned by the Reverand Sun Nyung Moon (11/96).
  162. 23 nations came online to the internet in 1996.
  163. Andrew Loyd Weber was 23 when he wrote Jesus Christ Superstar.
  164. Senator Sam Nunn’s new Commission on Civic Renewal, formed to report on ways to clean up America’s moral fabric, has 23 members (11/96).
  165. Tyco has begun shipping its new VideoCam, designed for youngsters 6 and up, which uses a 23-foot cord (included) to connect to the family VCR.
  166. 11/23/96 was the broadcast of Bob Hope’s 284th prime-time NBC special.
  167. In one episode of the crappy sitcom Suddenly Susan, Brooke Shields scored 23 points in her basketball game (11/96).
  168. Penguins can live in temperatures as low as 23 degrees.
  169. USA’s Reel Wild Cinema was showing a Mexican Little Red Riding Hood movie in which a guy in a wolf suit gives 23 whacks to a midget in a skunk suit. Later, when the wolf is about to be burned at the stake, the skunk returns the 23 whacks.
  170. 23% of all New Year’s resolutions are broken in the first week (1/97).
  171. On December 23rd, 1783, George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va.
  172. Little Rock Businessman Charles Trie visited the White House 23 times to make questionable donations during Clinton’s first term.
  173. On December 23rd, 1823, the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" ("Twas The Night...") by Clement Moore was published anonymously in the Troy (NY) Sentinel.
  174. Two-thirds of Americans polled would take a pay cut or reduce their hours for more family time. Women would give up 23% of their income, versus men’s 18%.
  175. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass), co-author of the Telecommunications Act, joined 3 other lawmakers and a coalition of 23 groups in endorsing an open letter that urged Jack Valenti to revise its new ratings system for television to more accurately reflect pragram content (12/96).
  176. Harry’s New York Bar, the expatriate-magnet in Paris that was a stomping ground for Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, got its name in 1923.
  177. The US Government spent $23 million in 1995 to find out how long it takes to deliver the mail.
  178. A recent internet treatise on Mentos commercials cited the television show Three’s Company as having 23 minutes of useless information (11/96).
  179. More than 500 people, including the chiefs of 23 American Indian tribes, gathered in Myrtle Beach, SC for a five-day annual conference of Indians. Activities included fish and wildlife projects, housing programs and bingo and gaming laws (10/96).
  180. Wired magazine had an ad for The cd-rom game You Don’t Know Jack, which has won 23 gaming awards.
  181. 10111 is the binary equivalent to 23. Note the five digits, yet another connection to the Law of Fives.
  182. Port 23 is the standard TCP/IP port for Telnet.
  183. 2^3 bits is how computers communicate (bytes).
  184. Conversion of 23 to 13: In base 5, 23 = 2x5 +3 = 13 in decimal notation. 13 is a significant number, being the actual level of most floors labeled 14 in hotels.
  185. Adolf Hitler organized the National Socialist Congress on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.
  186. The Rosicrucian (AMORC) Annual Outdoor Fete is held on September 23, when the sun enters the sign of Libra.
  187. December 23, 679 A.D. was the date that Dagobert II, a Merovingian King was murdered. Speculation, derived from the research in a book entitled "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", leads one to conclude this assasination was performed in connivance with the Catholic Church. The church leaders, unhappy with Dagobert's apparent policy of religious tolerance in his kingdom, located in the south of France, allegedly got him out of the way so that their best interests would be served. A predecessor of Dagobert, Clovis, had an alliance with the Catholic church, so it is possible that church leaders saw Dagobert's actions as a betrayal of what was considered a long standing policy of pro-Catholic reforms.
  188. October 23 4004 BCE is the supposed date of God's creation of the world.
  189. June 15th, 1904 (19 + 04 = 23) is the date that the "General Slocum" boat catches fire and over a thousand die. This is also the day James Joyce uses in Ulysses, who mentions the General Slocum disaster repeatedly within this book.
  190. April 19th (4+19=23) is the date of the Battles of Lexington, Waco, and Oaklahoma.
  191. There are more reported UFO sightings on July 23rd than any other day.
  192. September 23rd is Yom Kippur and the Fall Equinox.
  193. December 23, 2012 is the day the classic Mayans said the world would end.
  194. The human biorhythm cycle is 23 days long.
  195. Asteroid researchers measuring the rotation periods of asteroids reported that none were found with periods of less than 2.3 hours. A rotation period of less than 2.3 hours would cause them to be torn apart by centrifugal force.
  196. The axis of the Earth is 23.5 degrees.
  197. Both the average Lunar cycle and average menstrual cycles are 28 (23 + 5).
  198. According to the Tantrists, the male sex cycle is 23 days.
  199. One theory states that there were 23 Annunaki, the advance team of aliens who aided in the seeding of life on this planet.
  200. The Harmonic Convergence occures every 23,000 years.
  201. Daniel 8:14: "...2300 days the sanctuary will be reconsecrated..."
  202. John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only 23 for money.
  203. Vanadium is the 23rd element.
  204. There are 23 joints in the human arm.
  205. On May 23, 1939, the newly built submarine USS Squalus sank off the eastern seaboard. A sister ship, the USS Sculpin, sped to the rescue, and saved more than half of the fifty-six-man crew. The Squalus was salvaged and renamed the Sailfish. In 1943 the Sculpin was sunk by the Japanese who took forty-two crew members prisoner, and placed half of them on board the aircraft carrier Cuyo. As it approached Japan, the Cuyo was torpedoed by the Sailfish and went down with all hands. The crew of the Sailfish rejoiced at their victory - unaware that they had just killed half the survivors of the sub that had come to their rescue four years earlier.
  206. Actress Carol Channing and author Norman Mailer were both born on January 31, 1923.
  207. Lou Gehrig died in 1941, 23 months after giving his farewell specch at Yankee Stadium.
  208. A deranged man drove his truck through a military checkpoint and crashed into the front steps of CIA headquarters in Langley, VA on December 23, 1996.
  209. Popeye is seen to repeatedly ponder the number 23 in many of his 1970's TV Cartoons.
  210. The unabomber (Ted Kaczinski) has allegedly hurt or killed 23 people.
  211. A character in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, Sidney Carlton, the 23rd man, is guillotined in the final scene. "The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three."
  212. In the early '60's in Tangier, author/poet/artist William Burroughs knew a certain Captain Clark who ran a ferry from Tangier to Spain. One day, Clark said to Burroughs that he'd been running the ferry 23 years without an accident. That very day the ferry sank, killing Clark and everybody aboard. In the evening, Burroughs was thinking about this when he turned on the radio. The first newscast told about the crash of an airline plane on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark and the flight was listed as Flight 23 (ala the line "Captain Clark welcomes you aboard,").
  213. The Academy Award winning film, Charly is the story of a low-grade moron (IQ around 70) who is transformed by neuro-surgery into a superhuman genius (IQ 200 plus). In the crucial operation scene, the number on the operating room is visible, and it is, of course, 23.
  214. Gangster "Mad Dog" Coll was shot on 23rd Street when he was 23 years old; a year later, Dutch Schultz (who paid for the Coll assasination) was himself fatally shot on October 23, 1935. Marty Krompier, king of the Harlem numbers racket, was non-fatally shot on the same October 23, 1935. ("It's got to be one of them coincidences," he told the police.) Shultz's killer, Charlie Workman, served 23 years of a life sentence and was then paroled. Coll is buried St. Raymond's Cemetery.
  215. Arthur Flengenheimer (Dutch Schultz) died in a New York hospital on October 23, 1934 and uttered: "A boy has never wept nor dashed a thousand kim... French Canadian bean soup... The bears are in trouble and the sidewalks are in trouble..."
  216. Euclid’s Geometry has 23 axioms.
  217. In the movie Airport, the mad bomber has Seat 23.
  218. The I Ching Hexagram 23 means "Break Apart" (Telegrapher's use the code for "break the line").
  219. In Chapter 23 of the Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley, the chapter consists entirely of: "Get out. Wide is the world and cold. Get out. Thou hast become an in-itiate. Get out. But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The way out is THE WAY. Get out. For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power. Get OUT. ed SKIDOO and consists entirely of "What man is at ease in his Inn? If thou hast T already, first get UT. Then get O. And so at last get OUT.
  220. In Aleister Crowley's Cabalistic Dictionary, he defines the number 23 as the number of "parting, removal, separation, joy, a thread, and life"...
  221. 2 divided by 3 is .666.
  222. 69 divided by 3 = 23. Refer to Chapter 69 of Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies.
  223. Ten-Thirteen (10+13=23) is the name of the production company famed for producing shows like the X-files and Strange Luck. The company is named this because that's the month and day that the Knight Templars were arrested in France... hence Friday the 13th being considered a day of bad luck.
  224. The racing car in the Joe Camel Cigarette ads bears the number 23.
  225. 23+23+(2+3)=Area 51, famous for Secret aircraft and UFOs.
  226. Princess Leia was held in cell AA-23 on the Death Star.
  227. In the final assault on the Death Star, Luke Skywalker is in Red 5. Red 2 and Red 3 start the bomb runs at 23 degrees.
  228. 2/3 Majority is the number of votes required to recind a Motion-Simple Parliamentary Procedure in Britain and the number of votes required to override a Presidential veto in the US.
  229. The number of the Freemasons lodge in Stafford, England is 23 Jaol Rd. In New York it is on 23rd street.
  230. 2+3=5 is the equation Descartes chooses to theorize about as being an objective truth that he is possibly being fooled into believing is true in his Meditations on First Philosophy.
  231. On December 23, 2012, a huge cycle ends in the Mayan calendar. Some theories suggest the ice caps, having become wobbly from the gravitational pull exerted by the alignment of FIVE planets directly opposing the earth on 5/5/2005, will cause the crust of the earth to slip over the soggy innards, causing the ice caps to melt, and new ones to form. Of course, this will cause massive flooding, earthquakes, and general mayhem. All because the earth is slightly tilted, averaging about 23 degrees! (Refer to Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods for more background on this phenomenon. It ties in the Egyptians and other ancient civilizations, Atlantis, Osiris, star-charts, geological evidence, and hard physical evidence of the remnants of a lost, technologically superior race.)
  232. The square root(s) of 2,3, and 5 are used with respect to tetrahedral hyper-dimensional physics and perfect form in design. Square root(s)of 2,3, and 5 are also supposedly relative to D&M Pyramid on Mars and other similar relationships. These square roots were quite common in early architecture and considered the most aesthetically pleasing in design.
  233. Bill Clinton's numerical initials are B=2 C=3.
  234. There are 23 letters in the name Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
  235. On January 23rd, Bulgaria celebrates Babin Den, or the Day of the Midwives; Israel celebrates Tu B'Shevat; Malaysia celebrates Thaipusam; Mauritius celebrates Thaipoosam Cavadee; Sri Lanka celebrates Duruthu Full Moon Poya Day.
  236. Model and actress Tiffani-Amber Thiessen turned 23 on January 23rd, 1997.
  237. People with January 23rd birthdays: actor Richard Dean Anderson, Princess Caroline of Monaco, actor Rutger Hauer, and actress Jeanne Moreau.
  238. On January 23rd, 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon died and was succeeded as king of Spain by his grandson Charles V.
  239. On January 23rd, 1668, Holland, Britain and Sweden signed the Alliance of the Hague, known as the Triple Alliance, under which they agreed to aid one another if attacked.
  240. On January 23rd, 1793, Russia and Prussia agreed to a second partition of Poland.
  241. On January 23rd, 1832, Edouard Manet, the French painter, was born. His "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" scandalized the critics but won him the enthusiasm of a group of young painters who became the forerunners of the Impressionists.
  242. On January 23rd, 1898, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, the Russian film director, was born. His films include "The Battleship Potemkin" and "Ten Days that Shook the World."
  243. On January 23rd, 1944, Edvard Munch, the Norwegian painter, died. His most notable work is "The Scream."
  244. On January 23rd, 1989, the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali died. He was buried in a crypt under a glass dome in the Dali museum in Figueras, in Catalonia.
  245. Timothy Leary’s ashes will be jettisoned into orbit from the space shuttle sometime in 1997 along with 23 others, including "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, space physicist Gerard O'Neill and rocket scientist Krafft Ehricke.
  246. The bomb planted on July 26, 1996 at Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park was found at 12:57 pm and exploded 23 minutes later, killing one person and injuring 111.
  247. It took Pavlov 23 repetitions to train a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell.
  248. William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and dramatist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
  249. The serial number of the robot Tweeky in the Buck Rogers television series was 2223T.
  250. Oliver North shredded crucial documents that could have proven Reagan’s involvement in the Iran-Contra dealings on November 22, 1986, 23 years to the day after the Kennedy Assassination.
  251. In January 1997 Bill Cosby admitted to an extramarital affair 23 years ago.
  252. In 1984 a platypus jaw with three large teeth was found among a collection of opalised bones at Lightning Ridge in northern New South Wales and pronounced to be at least 110 million years old. Evolutionist scientists were excited. It seemed they had now established the platypus's great antiquity. Before that discovery, they believed no land mammal had been found in Australia in sediments dated older than 23 million years.
  253. The Hale-Bopp Comet was discovered on July 23, 1995 by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp. Its closest approach to Earth will be on March 22, 1997, at 122 million miles. On July 23 1996, the 'mysterious eyes' of comet Hale-Bopp were first sighted.
  254. Ornithorhynchus Anatinus, the scientific name for the platypus, has 23 letters.
  255. The three bombings that we’ve had in Atlanta in the past seven months have injured 123 people and killed 2. No-one has been arrested (3/10/97).
  256. In January of 1923, an angry mob of white people descended on the African-American town of Rosewood, Fla. Stirred up by a white woman’s false accusation that a black man had beaten and raped her, they annihilated the place and killed six residents.
  257. The Ministry video for the song ‘NWO’ has clips of an faux amateur video showing cops beating a woman dressed up in an angel costume, with the date on the video reading March 23, 1991.
  258. On Jun 23rd, 1996, Robert Downey wa charged with driving under the influence, cocaine and heroin possesion, and carrying a .357 magnum.
  259. Madonna’s new baby is named Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, with 23 letters.
  260. A Livermore, Ca. fire station has the longest burning light bulb in the world. According to Ripley’s, it has not gone out since 1901, except for when the station was moved in 1976 (1+9+7+6=23), when it was turned off for 23 minutes.
  261. In the Sid & Marty Krofft show Far Out Space Nuts, Bob Denver’s space ship was #123.
  262. At the North Pole, the sun never sets for 6 months, from March 20th to September 23rd. At the South Pole, the sun remains above the horizon from September 23rd to March 20th.
  263. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Yorick has been dead for ‘three and twenty years.’
  264. The redneck pedophile rapist that gets blown away in the film version of Grisham’s ‘Time To Kill’ is 23 years old.
  265. In August of 1996, a British medical journal reviewed 23 clinical trials concluding that the herb St. John’s Wort is effective in treatment of mild to moderate depression.
  266. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled (Ezekiel 23:20-21, New International Version).
  267. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts (Malachi 2:3 (KJV)).
  268. No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the assembly of the Lord (Deut. 23:1).
  269. In a frightening surrealistic film version of Alice In Wonderland by the brilliant Czech director/ animator Jan Svankmejer, alice's taxidermically stuffed rabbit flings open the door by dressing itself and running 'away'. The case that holds the white rabbit (i.e. pookah (i.e. one who takes you OUT)) is labeled "No. 23 Lepus Cunniculus".
  270. Blue Meenies are in the epic cartoon "Yellow Submarine" and are essentially a wild pack of destructive anti music villians. Among them is a character named the Butterfly Stomper (butterfly being a symbol of transformation). The Butterfly Stomper is one who destroys all things of beauty. On his shirt is the number 23.
  271. 23 seconds is the time it takes for blood to course through the human body.
  272. There were originally 23 channels of citizens band (CB) radio in the USA.
  273. During the L.A riots after the Rodney King verdict, a Korean shopkeeper can be clearly seen shooting at looters from the roof of a building in front of a large sign proclaiming the number 23 and nothing else.
  274. There are 23 letters in the latin alphabet.
  275. Julius Ceasar (Sep. 23, 63 BC - Aug. 19, 14 AD) was stabbed 23 times when he was killed.
  276. Richard23 is the name of the backup vocalist for Belgian industrial rock band Front 242.
  277. There are 23 buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington.
  278. The single from the British band Beautiful South, Blackbird On The Wire, entered the UK charts at #23 (3/97).
  279. The Jetsons premiered on September 23rd, 1962 on ABC.
  280. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Riker’s ID is SC 231-427.
  281. On August 23rd, 1914, Japan declared war on Germany. On April 23rd, 1917, Turkey severed relations with the US. On May 23rd, 1917, Costa Rica declared war on Germany.
  282. Omar Khayyam lived 1027-1123.
  283. Popes throughout history: Adrian VI (1522 - 1523), Clement VII (1523 - 1534), Gregory (1621 - 1623), Urban (1623 - 1644), Pius VII (1800 - 1823), Leo XII (1823 - 1829).
  284. The World Wide Web is referred to by WWW. W, of course, occupies the 23rd position in the alphabet.
  285. In an episode of the X-Files, Agent Mulder goes to the apartment of a recently deceased man, and as he is let in we see the number on the door: 23.
  286. In another X-Files episode, 1013 is the number on the abandoned nuclear missile silo where a UFO is contained and Crycek is locked up by the Men in Black.
  287. Florida’s electric chair was built in 1923.
  288. According to the latest UN predictions, international fertility will decline, stabilizing the world population early in the 23rd century at somewhat under 11 billion (compared with 5.8 billion today).
  289. While making the movie Apollo 13, the cast and crew flew 628 parabolic flights in NASA's KC-135 airplane to achieve real weightlessness. Each of the flights got them 23 seconds of zero gravity, making a total of 4 hours and 44 seconds.
  290. In the film Follow The Fleet (1936), during the final dance sequence on the boat, it is possible to see Fred Astaire get hit in the face by Rogers' beaded sleeve. The sequence was shot again 23 times in the hope of capturing the magic of that take without the accident, but it wasn't to be, and this original take was used.
  291. Some of Robocop’s new directives in the movie Robocop 2: DIRECTIVE 233: Restrain hostile feelings, DIRECTIVE 234: Promote positive attitude, DIRECTIVE 235: Suppress aggressiveness, DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values, and DIRECTIVE 238: Avoid destructive behavior.
  292. During filming of The Shining, the management of the Timberline Lodge requested that Kubrick not use room 217 (as specified in the book), fearing that nobody would want to stay in that room ever again. Kubrick changed the script to use the non-existent room number 237.
  293. On 23rd July, 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two juvenile Asian actors were killed during an accident on the set of The Twilight Zone, The Movie. SFX caused a helicopter to crash, killing all three instantly.
  294. Two powerful earthquakes struck Xinjiang province in northwestern China on Sunday, injuring at least 23 people and causing heavy damage (4/6/97).
  295. One episode of the TV show King Of The Hill has Peggy attending the regional Boggle championship at the Arvin, Texas Elk Lodge #23.
  296. Tobacco litigation settlement talks are underway; the attorneys general of 23 states have sued cigarette makers to recoup Medicaid costs of smokers (4/18/97).
  297. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
  298. Lawyers in the Oklahoma City bombing trial can each dismiss 23 members of the potential jury pool.
  299. The budget for the 6-hour ABC mini-series "Stephen King's 'The Shining'" clocks in at $23 million. The author had the inspiration for the book when he and his wife stayed at a Colorado hotel 23 years prior to the airing of the miniseries. The Torrance family is stuck 23 miles from Sidewinder, the nearest town.
  300. The stock market moved up 23% in 1996.
  301. Democratic lawmakers charged that Republicans were forcing a delay in disaster relief for 23 states by using an emergency money bill to gain leverage in budget talks (5/1/97).
  302. Ralph Reed, the executive director of the Christian Coalition, announced on April 23rd, 1997 that he is resigning to open a political consulting firm in Atlanta, GA.
  303. The name Chuck Taylor was added to the Converse basketball shoe in 1923.
  304. David Helfgott, subject of the film 'Shine', was 23 when he triumphantly performed Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto, shortly after which he suffered his collapse.
  305. Based statistically on the entire history of Playboy's run, the average playmate measures 36-23-35.
  306. The phone number for the CNN Studio Tours is 404-827-2300.
  307. There are 238 candidates for Iran's presidential election on May 23rd, 1997.
  308. Jurassic Park: The Lost World has its theatrical debut on May 23rd, 1997.
  309. According to the 'Pamela Lee Anderson's Breasts As A Function Of Time' website, 23 pentium motherboards can be constructed from the silicone in her breast implants.
  310. A Senate committee investigating campaign finance voted to issue 43 new subpoenas, including 23 connected to a Democratic fund-raising event last year at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in California that was attended by Vice President Al Gore. Participants paid $2,500 each to attend, in apparent violation of the temple's tax-free status as a non-political religious group (5/23/1997).
  311. 16-year-old Kenny Butler starts his first day of life in prison with no possibility of parole on May 23rd, 1997, after a jury of three men and nine women convicted him of first-degree murder in the killing of a gas station clerk in St. Petersburg on May 23, 1996.
  312. in 1923 The Attorney General said it was legal for women to wear trousers anywhere.
  313. After deliberating for 23 hours, a jury found Timoth McVeigh guilty on all counts of the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing (6/2/97).
  314. The recent action movie Con Air features a fearsome career rapist named Johnny 23 (played by Danny Trejo) who, along with other freaks and baddies, hijacks a C-123K military transport plane.
  315. The federal Medicare program made some $23 billion in improper payments to health care providers last year, The Wall Street Journal reported on 6/11/97.
  316. Jimmy Stewart filibusters for 23 hours in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.
  317. The recent Mars landing featured a 23kg probe vehicle.
  318. Loch Ness in Scotland is 23 miles long and 230 meters deep at its deepest point.
  319. A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment charging 13 people in a drug-smuggling ring run out of a southern California car-wash company (6/11/97).
  320. Bloodthirsty bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow terrorized the southwest during the early 1930's, committing countless robberies and murders, while somehow managing to evade the police. However, on the morning of May 23, 1934 their reign of terror came to an end when the car they were driving was ambushed by six police officers who were waiting in the bushes by the side of a road near Gibsland, Louisiana. The police fired at least 167 shots; at least 50 of them struck Bonnie and Clyde directly and they died almost immediately. "We just shot the hell out of them, that's all... they were just a smear of wet rags," said one policeman.
  321. On April 26, 1986 at 1:23 am technicians at the Chernobyl Power Plant in the Ukraine (former Soviet Union) allowed the power in the fourth reactor to fall to low levels as part of a controlled experiment which went wrong. The reactor overheated causing a meltdown of the core. Two explosions blew the top off the reactor building releasing clouds of deadly radioactive material in the atmosphere for over 10 days. The people of Chernobyl were exposed to radioactivity 100 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. The people of the world and Northern Europe were greeted with clouds of radioactive material being blown northward through the sky. Seventy percent of the radiation is estimated to have fallen on Belarus and 10 years later babies are sill being born with no arms, no eyes, or only stumps for limbs. It is estimated that over 15 million people have been victimized by the disaster in some way and that it will cost over 60 Billion dollars to make these people healthy. More than 600,000 people were involved with the cleanup many who are now dead or sick.
  322. Singers Elton John and Sting sang an unaccompanied version of the 23rd Psalm at a service on 7/22/97 in Milan for slain Italian designer Gianni Versace that was attended by the designer's family and celebrities from around the world.
  323. In all, death claimed some 23 people linked to the tombs of King Tut, while many others suffered various misfortunes. Of course, the greatest argument against the concept of a curse is the fact that Howard Carter, the leader of the expedition, suffered no ill effects. The burial chamber of King Tut's tomb was uncovered in 1923.
  324. The Tele-Tubbies, a bizarre British children’s show on BBC, is 23 minutes long.
  325. Whitewater Figure Susan McDougal was transferred to a more lenient federal prison from the Twin Towers county jail, where she was kept isolated from other prisoners for up to 23 hours a day and forced to wear shackles for court appearances (7/31/97).
  326. The FCC is expected to approve Bell Atlantic Corp.'s planned $23 billion merger with Nynex Corp, making the second largest US phone company (8/6/97).
  327. TCM is running a 23-film Cary Grant festival this month (8/97).
  328. An Internal Revenue Service report identified 1,515 browsing cases in fiscal years 1994 and 1995, which resulted in the firing of 23 IRS workers and the creation of the Taxpayer Browsing Act (8/97).
  329. Andrew Cunanan, suspected killer of Gianni Versace and four other men, killed himself on a Miami Beach houseboat July 23rd, 1997.
  330. After years of denials, Republican Congressman Jay Kim and his wife pleaded guilty to federal charges that they accepted and hid $230,000 in illegal campaign contributions. The three-term congressman could get as many as three years in prison, and his wife, June, could get two years when sentencing is held October 23 (8/12/97).
  331. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation revealed that this fall's network primetime lineup includes 30 characters who are openly gay, lesbian or bisexual -- a 23 percent increase from last fall's 23 (8/97).
  332. Panama will take control of the 50-mile US-owned Panama canal at the turn of the century and pick up more than 230,000 acres of land and 7,000 buildings, inheriting unexploded munitions and chemical waste resulting from U.S. military exercises since World War I (8/21/97).
  333. In the film The Blues Brothers, John Belushi's character is let out of prison and given $23.07 in cash.
  334. In the John Woo action film Face/Off, Travolta/Cage breaks out of prison and steals a car by breaking into a valet parking box and taking key number 23, hitting the alarm button to signal where the car is located.
  335. In South Park on Comedy Central, Kenny, the kid who dies in every episode, is number 23 on the football team. He gets decapitated and set upon by rats.
  336. In 1741 the German-born English composer George Frederick Handel finished his "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days.
  337. In 1923 Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the League of Nations.
  338. In 1949 the Berlin Airlift, under which the U.S. and Britain kept Berlin supplied against a Russian blockade, came to an end after 277,264 flights which carried 2,323,738 tons of supplies.
  339. The South Korean president granted AMNESTY to 23 businessmen convicted of bribery, tax evasion and embezzlement. The government said the pardon would enable them to work to improve the stricken economy (10/1/97).
  340. The Congressional Budget Office lowered its estimate of the fiscal 1997 budget deficit to $23 billion from its August estimate of $34 billion (10/6/97).
  341. On Black Monday, October 19th, of 1987, the stock market crashed when the Dow dropped 508 points, nearly 23 percent.
  342. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923.
  343. On October 23rd 1997, the "Hong Kong Crash" sent world markets spiraling. A story ran in the middle of the day featuring 2 (mechanical) monkeys (Gorillas = King Kong on Hong Kong Day) dancing to the Macarena. The one on the left wore a red sport shirt with the number23 boldly emblazoned on the front. On October 27th 1997, the NYSE stopped trading for a mandatory 1/2 hour due to losses of more than 350 points (first time in history for that reason). Time and point loss (as displayed on CNNFN) was at 2:35 PM EST, -352.16 points. NASDAQ was stopped at their Chairman's discretion. NYSE trading resumed at 3:05 PM EST and NASDAQ resumed, you guessed it, 2 minutes later. The final "2,3,5" indicator was when NYSE fell below 550 pt. level (and trading stopped for THAT reason for first time in history) 23 minutes after the NASDAQ resumed trading.
  344. On May 22, 1968, a N303Y passenger helicopter was en route from Disneyland to LAX. At about 5:50 PM, Flight 841 was flying at about 2,000 feet near Paramount when a distress message was received from the helicopter: "L.A., we're crashing, help us!" All 23 people on board were killed.
  345. At 2:00 AM on Saturday, October 23rd, 1731, the books and manuscripts that were to become the British Library were stored, much too casually, in a house in Westminster. It caught fire, catching the attention of the Speaker of the House of Commons who lived nearby; he rescued as many smoking bundles of parchment as he could, and rushed out finally with the Codex Alexandrinus, the priceless fifth-century manuscript of the Greek Bible, in his arms. 114 books, many irreplacable, were ruined or lost.
  346. In 1923, Garrett Morgan patented the traffic signal, his invention.
  347. London has 23,000 licensed taxi drivers (11/97).
  348. A sibling vaudeville act created in 1923 and billed as Ted Healy and His Stooges evolved into the Three Stooges in 1928 with the addition of Larry Fine.
  349. Governments of at least 23 countries including Germany, Russia, China, France and Israel have stepped up their economic espionage against U.S.-based companies, the LA Times reported on 1/12/98.
  350. The London Sunday Times reported that the BBC has found a cache of 23 unreleased Rolling Stones recordings from 1963-1965 (1/30/98).
  351. In 1923Ink paste was manufactured for the first time by the Standard Ink Company.
  352. The grand jury investigating allegations concerning Monica Lewinsky's alleged affair with Bill Clinton has 23 members (2/11/98).
  353. A volume of dramatic distress signals from the doomed ocean liner Titanic sold for $123,500 in electrifying bidding at an auction at Christie's on 2/17/98.
  354. Suspected Moslem rebels massacred 23 civilians overnight in the western province of Tlemcen, Algeria, on 2/18/98.
  355. Time Magazine made its debut in 1923.
  356. 1923 was also the year for the first dance marathon ever, held at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
  357. A California court upheld a $23 million damages award on 4/5/98 against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department for a violent raid on a bridal shower party, a lawyer for the family said. The judgment is believed to be one of the biggest ever against a law enforcement agency.
  358. A silver-plated pistol which once belonged to famed Wild West sharpshooter Buffalo Bill Cody sold for $123,500 on 5/12/98 at an auction of historic guns and Western memorabilia.
  359. A United Arab Emirates national with 46 children has advised his countrymen to forget the male potency drug Viagra and eat plenty of fish instead, the daily Emirates News said on 6/7/98. Ahmed Rashid bin Aboud, 48, who lives in the emirate of Fujairah on the UAE's east coast, said he had 23 sons and 23 daughters from eight wives, one of whom had given birth to 17 children. "Eat fish, and more fish," Aboud reportedly said. "I spend 200 dirhams ($54) every day on fish." The paper said the prolific father was living with three wives and had divorced the other five.
  360. A signed script from the "Contest" episode of the hit series "Seinfeld" fetched $23,000 at a Christie's New York auction of Hollywood memorabilia on 6/18/98.
  361. The new Disney film Mulan had an opening weekend on 6/21/98 of $23 million.
  362. In cities with major league baseball teams, the divorce rate is 23 percent lower than in cities without major league baseball teams.
  363. A 23 foot high tidal wave crashed into Papua New Guinea on 7/18/98, initially killing 600 people.
  364. In The Big Lebowski, The Dude's favorite bowling station is number 23.
  365. The town of Bedford, VA lost 23 men at Normandy in WWII, more per capita than any other town, village, or city in the country.
  366. President Clinton's Grand Jury has 23 people.
  367. In the film Speed, the bomb squad at the beginning has 23 minutes remaining of the time given to them by Dennis Hopper to provide the ransom. The hostages are subsequently rescued from the rigged elevator on floor 23.
  368. The Visigoths stormed Rome on August 23rd, 410.
  369. William Wallace, the Scottish patriot who demanded independence, was hung, drawn & quartered on August 23rd, 1305.
  370. Professor Kevin Warwick claimed on 8/25/98 to be the first person in the world to have a computer chip surgically implanted into his body. He told a press conference that a glass capsule about 23 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide containing an electromagnetic coil and a silicon chip had been inserted into his arm.
  371. In 1923 an earthquake which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale struck Japan and completely destroyed Yokohama and nearly destroyed Tokyo.
  372. In 1654, 23 Sephardic Jews exiled from Brazil landed in New York, becoming the first US immigrants.
  373. Manhattan is 23 square miles of land.
  374. A roof collapsed at the Church of the Universal Kingdom of God on 9/5/98, killing 23 people and injuring 500.
  375. In 1741 the German-born English composer George Frederick Handel finished his "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days.
  376. Two young brothers aged 5 and 8 found a bank deposit bag containing $23,399 and dozens of checks inside a mall bathroom in El Paso, but handed the cash to police saying they could not keep it (9/13/98).
  377. On September 23rd, 1950, the McCarren Act passes, over a presidential veto. It provides for severe restrictions on civil liberties, suspension of free speech, and placing of undesirable Americans in concentration camps. The act has never been repealed.
  378. On September 23rd, 1952, answering accusations that slush funds were being diverted into his personal account, Richard Nixon, candidate for Vice President under Ike, told the nation that he had accepted no money, but his daughter had received a cocker spaniel. "I'm not going to break that little girl's heart by taking away that dog."
  379. On October 13th (10/13, 10+13=23), Art Bell announced the final radio show broadcast of his career (based on a threatening experience his family received).
  380. Also on 10/13, that wacky gal in Conyers, Georgia makes her final public communication with the Virgin Mary in front of an expected crowd of 100,000. Shout out to Dirk for these two.
  381. A gossipy 1823 Viennese newspaper column has been pinpointed as the origination for the most likely untrue claim that composer Antonio Salieri poisoned Mozart.
  382. In Switzerland, John Harwood patented his self-winding watch in 1923.
  383. 1923 was also the year that the first planetarium opened at the Deutsche Museum in Munich.
  384. Adolf Hitler was arrested in Germany in 1923 for his failed attempt to sieze power.
  385. The Flatiron building, located on 23rd Street in New York, was the tallest in the world when it was completed in 1902. In the building's early days, the winds around it drew crowds of men hoping to get a peek at women's ankles as their long skirts got blown about (how quaint). Police officers had to keep people moving along, and their call, "23 Skidoo", became slang for "scram."
  386. In the movie Conspiracy Theory, Mel Gibson has combination locks on the canisters in his locked refrigerator. The combo for his coffee can is 4-23-12.
  387. The first episode of Doctor Who premiers on the BBC on 11/23/63.
  388. Over 2500 people are killed when a 6.8 earthquake rocks the Campania and Basilicata regions of Italy on 11/23/80.
  389. One of the "chaos" scenes in Deep Impact briefly shows a fire truck with the number 23 emblazoned on its side. Also, the kid after whom the comet is named is headed for Ark 23 in Missouri when he inexplicably goes back to save his girlfriend.
  390. A woman was arrested (11/28/98) for allowing her teenager daughter (who has Cerebral Palsey) to sicken and die. The girl weighed only 15 lbs. when authorities found her. Her mother claimed that she never weighed more than 23.
  391. In the film Enemy Of The State, Will Smith gets caught in a hotel fire and ends up in ambulance number 23. He steals a gun and escapes. Hilarity ensues.
  392. The first congressional open session is broadcast via radio in 19 23.
  393. Florida's governor Lawton Chiles died of an enlarged heart in December of 1998, just 23 days from the end of his elected term.
  394. In the movie Phantoms, Peter O'Toole and the remaining protagonists are holed up in the mobile military science lab numbered 23.
  395. A recent study found that patients have only 23 seconds to get their point across to their doctor before he tunes them out.
  396. High school seniors Harris and Klebold fatally shot a teacher and 12 students and wounded 23 others before killing themselves at Columbine High, in the nation's deadliest school shooting (4/20/99).
  397. On 5/9/99 a chartered bus carrying members of a seniors casino club on a Mother's Day gambling excursion ran off a highway and crashed, killing 23 people.
  398. George Lucas is trying to buy 23 acres of the 1,480 acre Presidio military base in San Fransisco.
  399. The Empire State Building is struck on average 23 times a year by lightning.
  400. In Altamonte Springs, Fla, the concrete roof of a covered walkway collapsed as churchgoers socialized between services, injuring 23 people (11/8/99).
  401. The Lear Jet that killed golfer Payne Stewart was 23 years old (11/1/99).
  402. Israeli pop singer Ofra Haza died of massive organ failure on February 23 (2000).
  403. Donny Osmond had 23 gold records in 9 years at the height of his career.
  404. In the Coen Brothers movie The Big Lebowski, they bowl on lane 23.
  405. In October 2000,a Russian sub was stranded below the Arctic Circle. A note found on one of the doomed sailors read "There are 23 people here...none of us can get to the surface."
  406. The Catholic patron saint of musicians, Saint Cecilia, died in 230 AD. I was told this in an email from Cecilia Carter, who lives at 230 Caplin Drive, and who loves music.
  407. Dale Earnhardt Sr, considered by many to be the greatest Nascar driver ever, died on the final turn of the final lap of his 23rd Daytona 500.
  408. 23 people suffered minor injuries when a tree fell in Frontierland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA (4/26/01).
  409. Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, affecting children, accounts for 23% of all deaths linked to congenital heart defects - a higher proportion than two decades ago (5/14/01).
  410. President George W. Bush was jogging when Secret Service agents detained a man in the park with a gun because he was too close to the President. Bush ran a brisk three miles in 23 minutes (5/18/01).
  411. Michael Lund, a former champion skier charged with conspiring to import 37 tons of marijuana was arrested in Denver after 23 years on the run (5/18/01).
  412. A national survey finds that the allergy-causing proteins produced by dust mites - tiny creatures that live on flakes of human skin - have been found in high levels in the beds of 23 percent of U.S. homes.
  413. According to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame showed 23 seconds of tobacco use (6/5/01).
  414. Blockbuster Video will issue millions of coupons for free video rentals to settle 23 class-action lawsuits accusing the company of charging exorbitant late fees (6/5/01).
  415. Israeli officials have closed Jerusalem's hottest nightspot and four other discotheques as part of a crackdown on unlicensed clubs in the aftermath of a wedding hall collapse that killed 23 people (6/5/01).
  416. Philip Miller of Allentown, PA was sentenced to 23 months in jail for breaking into two family burial vaults, opening coffins, scattering century-old skeletal remains and stealing five skulls (6/21/01).
  417. Iraq's state-run television claimed that a U.S.-British airstrike killed 23 people during a soccer game. U.S. officials blamed a malfunctioning Iraqi anti-aircraft missile (6/23/01).
  418. Fidel Castro publicly fainted in Cuba at 11:22 AM on Saturday, June 23rd, 2001.
  419. Pope John Paul is not believed to have handled cash to buy anything for the past 23 years, as reported on 7/4/01.
  420. Oct. 23, 1983, suicide bombing at U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon
  421. On Feb. 23, 1993, bombs exploded in a parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring 1,000. Six Islamic militants were convicted in the bombing and sentenced to life behind bars.
  422. 9/11/2001=9+11+2+1=23
  423. Marwan Al-Shehhi was one of the terrorists on United Airlines Flight 175, which left Boston at 7:58 a.m. and crashed into the World Trade Center at 9:05 a.m. Al-Shehhi, 23, was born in the United Arab Emirates.
  424. Two of the individuals were placed on the government's terrorists watchlist on Aug. 23 and the FBI had been looking for them since.
  425. Blighted by conflict, Afghanistan has been embroiled in various wars for 23 years.
  426. 23 percent of Americans favor random identification checks on streets and highways according to a new Newsweek poll. (10/15/01)
  427. Pakistan, one of only three countries to recognize the Islamic Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, has 10 major operational air bases, 11 forward operational bases, nine emergency landing facilities and 23 other air fields.
  428. One million people attended a Sept. 23rd memorial service in Central Park to honor the estimated 300 firefighters who were killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
  429. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped by Al Quaeda operatives on 1/23/2002.
  430. The "smoking gun" memo proving that Enron was trying to buy influence over accounting standards was dated 2/23/2001.

    Personal Occurences of the Number 23

  431. I was watching The Lion King with my little brother in early 1995 and had to sit through the 5-minute trailer for Pochahantas. The release date? June 23, 1995.
  432. I wrecked my car, doing around $2300 worth of damage, on November 23rd.
  433. My friend David was playing the Genus III version of Trivial Pursuit when the question that came up to be answered was "Who signed 23 one-year contracts to manage the Dodgers?". The answer was "Walter Alston". Also, W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet.
  434. My address at Jackie's house in Montgomery was 320 Bellinger Lane....023 backwards, PLUS "Bellinger Lane Montgomery" has 23 letters.
  435. The Saint associated with the 23rd of February (my birthday) is Saint Polycarp, and he's the Bishop of Smyrna (don't know the origin of the name exactly). Now, Smyrna is also the name of the town next to Marietta, where I live (both suburbs of Atlanta). I was with a realtor one day looking at houses in Smyrna, and one of the houses that I liked the best was on lot 23 on landlot 66.
  436. I was helping Jackie build some sets for Saint Joan at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival this weekend, and we were stapling christmas lights to the back of these big pieces of plywood, and the numbers stamped on the back of the plywood was 23/32. It turns out that the play, considered to be one of Bernard Shaw's best, debuted in December 1923. Also, ASF, one of the world’s largest regional theatres, was comissioned by Red Blount, a billionaire residing in Motgomery, Alabama. His initial grant was $23 million, the largest single amount ever donated to the furthering of the arts in this country.
  437. I was in ORACLE DBA class one day in 1995 and I learned that the operating system dependent Transaction Entry length is 23 bytes.
  438. I bought a Crest toothbrush one week, and picked out the coolest combination of colors (there were lots to choose from), and later while opening the package, noticed that I had chosen style #23.
  439. I was at this club called Oxygen one night and the music was really dreadful, so when I glanced at the digital clock behind the DJ booth, it said 11:23, so I decided it was time to leave. I had a map in the car I had printed out on the computer that gave directions from there to this other club I wanted to go to in case that one was lame, so I looked at it, and it gave the distance in miles and blocks, and it was 23 blocks from where I was.
  440. We were working on the Software Design Document at work, and all the tables in one section which several different people had been inserting into had incorrect reference numbers. They were all referncing a single table, Table XXIII.
  441. My work address in 1996 was 2300 Windy Ridge Parkway. Again, W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet.
  442. I was driving to Atlanta from Montgomery one morning, and I passed a big truck that had 2303 in big letters on its back end and said 'ENERGY' on its side. Earlier the same morning I had filled my tank at an Exxon where the Supreme gas price was 1.23.
  443. Whilst typing this message, my cc:mail program killed itself and I lost everything I was working on. The system time was 9:23.
  444. A couple of weeks ago on VR.5 on Fox, there was this guy, Joseph Bloom, the evil government assassin that pouty Lori Singer had to subvert. The two middle numbers of his SSN was 23.
  445. I hit a nail at exactly 8:23 one morning and was out of air by the time I made it home. The previous week I also had a flat tire, the same day 23 year old Mexican singing sensation Selena was shot to death.
  446. The first house I bought was 23 years old at time of purchase.
  447. Channel 23 on my cable is the Cobb County Community Channel.
  448. I received a Spiegel pre-approved credit card notice on the 23rd of March, 1995. The credit limit was $2300.
  449. I was doing some coupon shopping awhile back, and my total reduction came to $2.30 in coupons used. This was on 4/5/95 (4+5+9+5=23). Two of the coupons I had, one for Lucky Charms and one for Progresso bread Crumbs, expire on 4/23/95 (again, 4+2+3+9+5=23).
  450. Jackie asked me to go get the mileage off her Jeep when she was shopping for a car, and it was 123,000 miles.
  451. My haircut generally costs $23.00.
  452. I was playing Minesweeper in Windows one day and I completed the level in 23 seconds exactly.
  453. I sold my big hexagonal fish tank (for almost $230) , and the girl's check number was 2302.
  454. All the license plates in the county in Alabama where my grandparents live start with the number 23.
  455. I just made payment #23 of my car loan, for $235.57. I mailed it to the bank at PO Box 2233.
  456. Jackie and I were planting seeds a couple of weeks ago and the package of yellow banana pepper seeds had the number 23 stamped in ink on the envelope, with no indication why.
  457. The woman in that Nordic Track commercial dropped 23 lbs. and 2 dress sizes!
  458. I was in Oracle DBA class one week, and the instructor handed us a list of the top 23 things to do to tune an Oracle Database.
  459. At 8:23 on 5/23/95, I received an email from Buttnugget saying the "MacMurray building in Oklahoma is being leveled...there are 2 or 3 people left in the building."
  460. I recently bought this CD that's a collaboration between Brian Eno and the band James, and consists of 23 tracks of experimental and bizarre electronic music.
  461. On the day I wrote this, it was the 23rd week of the year.
  462. Don, a friend and former coworker, emailed me that his daughter's birthday is January 23rd.
  463. Jackie and I ate at Lek's Taste Of Thailand in Montgomery, and she predicted out of the blue that the bill would be $23.95. She was wrong; it was $23.36.
  464. We were at an antique store this weekend, and there was this statuette/bourbon bottle shaped and painted like Pancho Villa, the great Mexican outlaw. His death date, 1923, was on the base.
  465. I had a call from Chris and paige in Colorado one weekend, who had noticed a moving guy across the street wearing a t-shirt with a big 23 on it. This is unusual in that I'm taking ownership of a 23-year old house this Friday, June 23rd at midnight.
  466. Chandlee, a friend of mine in Montgomery, decided to weigh both herself and my girlfriend's dog, Tucker, at the same time a couple of weekends ago. The total was 123 lbs.
  467. I took my car into Saturn for servicing one day, and they put a big cardboard number on my rearview mirror: 238.
  468. I was at Home Depot one day, and they had big floor fans on sale for $23.23.
  469. I was listening to this religious radio soap opera called Unshackled while driving the other night, and it was episode number 2315, something about this guy whose girlfriend manipulates him into finding Jesus upon which time his entire life ceases to be shitty.
  470. The minimum payment on my Discover card in June, 1995 was $23.
  471. A while back I had 3 packages to mail. I weighed them on the postage scale, and 2 of the 3 (23) required 55 cents postage while the third requird 78 cents postage. Now, 78-55 = 23. The 55 cent packages each would require one 32 cent stamp (23 backwards) with 23 cents in postage left. I ended up using 2 32 cent stamps on each because I only had 2 3 cent stamps.
  472. One night when I turned off my computer to go to bed I looked at my clock and it was 1:23 exactly.
  473. Moving a sofa from Montgomery to Atlanta Sunday night, we somehow lost one of the cushions, so I was measuring the others last night so we could get some foam and eventually recover the couch; it's length and width dimensions were 23 inches by 23 inches.
  474. 4 people on my WOTD mailing list have 23 characters in their names.
  475. I was watching Jenny Jones late one night (yeah, well, it's better than the Mexican channel) and the topic was "I hate my trashy twin" or something like that, and they had 5 sets of twins on, 3 of which were 23 years old.
  476. Marty was watching some show on one of the myriad stations at work, & they mentioned that the Aztecs (or Incas or Mayans) had predicted the end of the world would be on 12/23/2012. Which, you'll notice, adds up to several 23's. 1+2=3, 23, 2+0=2, and 1+2=3.
  477. My friend Scott called me one day to tell me about his trip to Amsterdam and Paris and he mentioned that he's completely broke because work is slow and he's only getting 23 hours a week.
  478. The mileage counter on my car was at 23 when I reset it one day to drive downtown; I ended up behind an Audi with 23 in the tag, and stayed up that night watching "Escape From Witch Mountain", which ended at 2:23.
  479. T-shirts cost $23 at the Bjork concert.
  480. The check number I wrote for my first mortgage payment was 1223.
  481. I bought my little brother a Mad Libs one day (I hadn't seen one of those things in ages) and it had this ominous little black 23 stamped between the bar-code and the price.
  482. I was looking at an ATM transaction statement for a transferral of $1500 from my checking to my savings accounts for the purposes of buying a 23-year old house. The time of the transaction was 5:23.
  483. I emailed a guy who runs an electronic version of Factsheet Five, which is a magazine that reviews 'zines and small publications. His address was jerod23@well.sf.ca.us.
  484. I recently bought some new bookshelves and was pulling tomes from boxes when I came across a book of my grandmother's which was given to me after she died: "The 23rd Psalm For Today", basically consisting of lots of pictures of rivers and trees with superimposed bible verses.
  485. I saw in the paper that Natalie Merchant will be in Atlanta on September 23rd. Tickets? $23.50.
  486. I got a credit-card mailing for a gold Mastercard or something and the stamp was a presorted first-class self-adhesive 23-cent thingy.
  487. I am working on a communications system called TACINTEL. I had to present an overview of a particular routing system at our PDR, and I noticed that in the documentation, the Figure for the Information Model for this system was Fig. 23.
  488. My ticket to the FooFighters show at the Masquerade last week had G1 23 stamped on the row/seat number despite the fact that it was general admission.
  489. I received an email from Chandra: "I bought tickets (2) to the NIN/Bowie concert on Aug 23. Our transaction number is 23-48970. For buying 2 tickets on the 23rd, I got one $3 off coupon for some pizza restaraunt in Chicago."
  490. I received my Oracle Master's Certificate (a computer database thing) in the mail, and it was signed and dated August 23rd.
  491. Jackie and I were grocery shopping at A&P one week and the total came out to exactly $23.00 after coupons.
  492. I mailed a book to a friend, and the postage meter weighed it at 2.3 pounds.
  493. We had picked a friend of Jackie's up at the airport a while back, and she was telling us this story about her cat that weighs 23 pounds. Minutes later, we pull up to the window to pay for parking for a half hour, and the previous person's bill was still up on the digital readout...$23.13.
  494. I had a major HP operating system error while working on my database today: File System Full, Error #0023.
  495. A full-page ad in the paper one weekend in late 1995 declared a giant furniture sale at Helig Myers in which EVERYTHING was 23% off (in big red letters).
  496. I got my car serviced the other day at Saturn and the total bill came to $23.34.
  497. I bought a wheelbarrow at Wal-Mart (shudder) one day that had been marked down to $23.00. It was rung up at the garden center register, marked as register #23 in big black permanent marker letters. The register had two bottles of Infusium 23 shampoo sitting on top of it. Really.
  498. We were doing these Create-a-Card things where you punch in a bunch of stuff and the machine prints a card up, and one had 23 in the code stamped on the back; my total at the cash register (with the other stuff I was getting) then came to $23.99.
  499. I was in a meeting at work, and we were eating from this big plastic bear-shaped thingy full of animal crackers that had 23g of carbohydrates per serving, and Jim points out that his watch says 11:23.
  500. Some underground/industrial bands I've run across lately: Virus 23, Oxygiene 23, Richard 23, and Insight 23.
  501. I received a letter from a long distance carrier that promises a lower rate over the big 3, and in the fine print says that comparisons are based on direct-dial in-state calls over an area of 23 aerial miles.
  502. On October 23rd, several cars were broken into in the parking deck where I work.
  503. I received an antique German postcard in the mail from a guy requesting a copy of my 'zine. The photo on the postcard was dated 1923.
  504. I took a picture of Jackie and Tucker (our little dog) one night, and the film advanced to picture #23.
  505. I bought a newspaper and a bag of Munchos (Frito-Lay Inc, Dallas Tx, 75235) and the total came to $1.23.
  506. My friend Rick emailed me on April 23rd, informing me that his SSN has 23 in it, that when he was 23 he purchased a Mustang with tag # DXF-223, and that on the previous day he had 23 voice mail messages at work.
  507. I saw a Best Buy commercial stating that the average consumer listens to 23 sales pitches this season. It was advertising their credit terms, and in the fine print on the screen it said "23.85%".
  508. We were looking at antique champagne and wine glasses and Jackie picked up the most attractive one; it's price, on the bottom, was $23.00.
  509. Cobb County (where I live) is opening a new $23.2 million trash co-composting facility in April of this coming year.
  510. There is a 23 acre lot available for development next to the Lenox Mall area in Buckhead, here in Atlanta.
  511. As I was driving into work this morning the radio informed me that it was 23 degrees outside.
  512. One evening several months ago I opened a letter from AT&T offering a pathetic $15 to switch back; the offer expired on October 23rd. Later than same evening my VCR was acting up and it spit out a stuck tape at exactly 7:23 pm.
  513. A friend of mine, Don, has a daughter that turned 16 yesterday (1/23/96).
  514. We were in the middle of this little plumbing project last night, and I had to run to Home Depot a couple of times for washers, gaskets, etc. They have huge sliding walls of parts, each one with hundreds of tiny drawers , each drawer individually labeled with the part size and price. Nearly all of one of the walls had nothing but various types of washers, each of them priced at 23 cents.
  515. In the Georgia State Tax Manual there is a (useless) example of a simple tax calculation, the resultant arbitrary taxable income listed being $23,000. The standard Georgia deduction, BTW, is $2300.
  516. Turned on the TV one night during the Presidential primaries, and they were reporting the current results of the Iowa primary; Pat Buchanan had at that point received 23% of the votes, a close second (shudder) to Bob Dole.
  517. Bellsouth is having a promotional thing where you garner points for every local call you make, and you win Olympic tickets or something. This month I had accrued 23 points.
  518. My March 1996 horoscope specifies a union of sun and pluto on the 23rd, indicating that I must not hesitate in setting my price and demanding my due (pretty useful advice seeing as how raises and promotions are due this month).
  519. In a big advertisement in one of the crappy local papers here last week,Winn-Dixie is comparing itself to Kroger: in big letters, it says "23% lower" (based on certain purchases). The address for this particular WD is 2350 Spring Rd.
  520. On Saturday I got a haircut that cost $23 (with tip), I briefly played Duke Nukem 3D on the computer, which informed me that it was the 23rd time I had played it, and Jackie and I went to a drive-in theatre located on Moreland avenue downtown, otherwise known as highway 23.
  521. I received a check from AT&T to switch back (about the fifth time) and was informed that April 23rd would be the activation date for my new long-distance service.
  522. I received an email today, the 23rd, that was 23K in size.
  523. A recent op-ed article about carpooling said the average time a commuter spends in Atlanta traffic is 23 hours a year. This is of course misleading because it's per capita, thus including babies in the calculation. I actually spend upwards of 250 hours a year in traffic.
  524. I was driving on December 23rd, passed the turn for County Road 23, and across the street gasoline was priced at $1.23.
  525. We watched The Manchurian Candidate a while back, and Robert Shaw's phone number when he was called on by China to perform an assasination under hypnosis was 3223. Also, that same weekend I purchased a big thingy of salt at the grocery store for 23 cents.
  526. Christmas 95 Jackie and I were comparing cordless drills (Makita and Dewitt); both had 23 in their serail numbers, but the Makita had a 23 in the patent number for the rechargable battery.
  527. I was presenting a document to SRC’s Navy customers and the source number for their comments on the document was 23.
  528. I had to kill a unix vi process, process id 2342.
  529. We went grocery shopping one night, and the total bill was $123.84, but I used 23 coupons.
  530. A refill of Jackie’s asthma inhalant costs $23.
  531. We watched an episode of The Outer Limits called Veronica 23.
  532. I receive an internet compendium of movie samples used in industrial songs, and the latest mailing included 2323 samples frm 364 sources.
  533. The office address of the Defense Investigator that interviewed me for my Top Secret clearance is 2300 Lake Park Drive, Atlanta.
  534. I get a mailing from some weirdo fly-by-night missionary church which boasts a membership of 23 families.
  535. We paid $23 for a red glossy hand-carved and painted devil’s mask in Cancun.
  536. I saw an old episode of American Bandstand that had the GoGos performing. The original broadcast date was January 23, 1982.
  537. One day I ate a bag of Cheetos that was going to expire on July 23rd, and later that night some chick called the radio station saying that it was her birthday and she was 23 years old.
  538. Jackie’s theatre got a shipment of t-shirts in with 23 stamped on the side of the box in big letters.
  539. In 1996, the total contract bookings at my company grew by 23%.
  540. Condomania, a store in Atlanta, is advertising Herbal Ecstasy at $23 for 10 tablets (11/96).
  541. I received a glossy flyer from Macy’s which said "Look inside for 23 pages of ornaments."
  542. The phone number for Georgia Voter Registration is 528-2300, and the number for Smyrna Water and Sewage is 423-1000.
  543. A recent sweepstakes mailing informed me that I may have already won $23,500 (11/96).
  544. I bought an antique glass flask at an antique mall in Louisville, Kentucky, and received 23 cents in change (3/9/97).
  545. At the Kentucky airport we bought a Home Design magazine with a cover story reading ‘23 Pages of Latest and Greatest Kitchens.’ It had a Kohler ad with a painting reading ‘#23 in a series’ and an Uncle Ben’s ad which informed us that their rice has 23 herbs and seasonings.
  546. According to a survey, 23% of 231 "important" buisness people surveyed felt that Atlanta’s business center is in Buckhead, while 43% felt that it is migrating north outside of the perimeter (3/9/97).
  547. I did an ego search on the internet (searched for my own name) and came up with 23 hits at the Internet Address Finder (2/23/97).
  548. A $2.3 million pedestrian walkway spanning Cobb Parkway between Cobb Galleria Centre and Cumberland Mall here in Atlanta is expected to be built by Thanksgiving of 1997.
  549. Driving to work downtown I passed a service garage that was advertising that it now had 23 service bays (4/16/97).
  550. Our software project at work got cut in size from approximately 125 people to 23 people (9/4/97).
  551. We bought an antique linen press, basically a huge armoire, dating from the late nineteenth century. It had an ominous 23 stamped into the wood on the back.
  552. I was walking down the street near work one day and passed a firestation where the truck was pulled out facing the road; The huge yellow number on the nose of the truck was of course 23.
  553. Email received 8/31/98: "Hey, my friend found your page before searching for alex mack and donut (because he's obsessed with Alex Mack and donuts) and umm ya so he told me about your page and all the weird things that had to do with the number 23 in your life. Hmmm so anyway, just a moment ago, i checked the time on my computer (by typing "date" because I have linux and it only prints out the time once --as opposed to windows clock -- and when after i typed in "date" it said that the time was EXACTLY "23:23:23" (or 11:23 pm and 23 seconds) but WOAH! WE WERE FREAKED OUT BECAUSE IT SAID 23:23:23 and the first thing my friend said was that we should e-mail this to you..."
  554. I gave blood today (11/11/98) and one of the Red Cross' big metal storage boxes had a huge 23 stamped on the side.
  555. My friend Chris went to my home page to get to salonmagazine and saw there's a 21st century challenge there that asks for an e-mail up to 23 words (12/25/98).
  556. Jackie flew back from Bethesda on Flight 623, and she sat in 23E.
  557. Email received in May, 2001:
    oh my god, i was totally astounded to hear about your connection with the number 23! what a coincidence, i have had sooooooo many similair experiences with the same number for example every member of my family (apart from 2 or 3)was born on the 23rd of different months.my grand mother was born in 1923, and unfortunatley she passed on the 23rd of march this year.as i write this to you i realise that it is the 23rd today!wow!there are so many other things that i have not got time to mention. i live in scotland and my address is number 23!etc etc i hope you will write back this is just to weird for words!!! thanks for your time anna kelly (aged 23 surprise, surprise)
  558. Email received in August, 2001...:
    Hello my name is Tarek B. I am not a paranormalist; however, something quite extraordinary happened to me today. I was watching CNN-Headline News and a story about an unusually large gathering of sharks off the Florida coast came on. I felt overwhelmingly compelled to review the incident further by logging on to the internet. I then ran a search on Yahoo under the terms "strange worldwide occurrences" and hit your site, (about the number 23), as a second choice. Incidentally my birthdate is 6-23-76. I have a very solid "inner-conviction" that something very strange is happening or about to happen...Any thoughts? -T Also, I am a member of Albany Masonic Lodge no.5, (2+3).
  559. Email received in September, 2001...:
    Hello there- Just to let you know, I also find that the number 23 crops up strangely frequently, and wanted to print out your "Strange Occurences" page to show my girlfriend, who is also fascinated by this number. It's 23 pages long. Spooky! Cheers, Mike
  560. Email received in December, 2001...:
    Here's something for you to consider. The historian and teacher of the Science of Correspondences John Tritimeus (mentor of medieval Conjurator Henricus Cornellius Agrippa of Nettesheim) predicted that in the reign of the angel of Michael (that's now) on the 23rd July in the year 1965 - at the time of the Egyptian new Year marked by the rising of Sirius a man would be born of Danish Princely origin and his name would mean literally son of the Wolf, his family crest would be a golden wolf, and his given name would be David. It was predicted he would be born in the Northern lands of Great Britain and from an early age would display spiritual knowledge beyond learning.

    This would be all very well but I have met such a man and although I am a skeptic in a great many things I am thoroughly convinced that I have tracked down this very man, who now resides in Texas and is somewhat of a wealthy recluse!

    I know him to be a 33rd degree freemason and on the 23rd July 1995 when he was 30 years of age he was invited by a group (the illuminati???) to perform an egyptian rite once practised by the Pharaohs and mark the rising of Sirius - this remarkably coincided with the first sighting of the Hale Bopp comet!

    He also seems to have some hereditary connection with the Knights Templars and bars a family connction to the House of Stuart who once ruled Scotland and by this link claims descent from King David of the Jews! Although what is most remarkable is that his ancestor was indeed a 9th century Prince of Denmark and his family name is indeed represented by a golden wolf on their coat of arms!

    I have met with him and enquired into people and events from the past and astoundingly he seems to have an incredibly complex knowledge of a great many historical events and astronomy. What I find this particularly incredible since he has written on the science of correspondences and the mythology of ancient egypt. I mean how can he know these things and it seems to me just too many coincidences?

    Cheers,Ronald Fergusson, Esq.



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