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The ever-expanding list of the synchronous occurrence of the number Twenty-Three (23)
compiled by vaious Discordians, Erisians and readers of the Illuminatus Trilogy and related thought-streams. It seems to be the same thing as the 11:11 phenomenon where people see that number frequently and search for a meaning in it. But unlike 11:11, "23" people are usually self-aware of the selective attention aspect of finding certain numbers out of the thousands we see each day. For more info read the "Illuminatus Trilogy" By Robert Shea & Robert anton wilson OR "Principia Discordia" -~miqel


1723 A.D. The year that Adam Weishaupt (cf your nearest
American one dollar bill) revived the Illuminati.
The 23 is 2+3=5, going to the Law of Fives. The
17 is also interesting, as 1+7=8, 2 to the 3rd
power = 8. Eight is also the number of letters in
the Kallisti, Hail Eris!

Artists Pop-mystical hard-core band with Alien and
Currently A+ Bud overtones. (3+ [1+1]) = 32
Known As 311 Therefore, the opposite of the band must
be the Comte Saint Germain or not at all.

666 2 / 3 = .666... See, this stuff can be
dangerous.

AOL Chat Only 23 people allowed in a AOL chatroom.
Rooms Coincidence? Obviously, just an
"illuminated" programmer.

Film: In the movie Airplane II the name of the
Airplane II: space ship is the XR - 2300.
The Sequel

Victory/Peace Consisting of five fingers: 2 up to form
hand sign a Roman Number V, 3 fingers down. Hippies
and Nixon: willing dupes for THEM.

Airplane 230 people died on TWA Flight 800.
disaster

Film: Airport In the movie Airport, the mad bomber has
Seat 23.

Aliens 23 Annunaki, the number of the original
advance team of "aliens" who aided in the
seeding of life on this planet.

Alphabet: The W is the 23 letter of this alphabet. The
letter W symbol for that letter is two points down
and three points up.

Apollo Lunar First landing on the Moon was in the Sea
Landings 1 & of Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East. Second
2 landing was in the Ocean of Storms, 23.42
degrees West. Notice the names of the
picked sights and how they contrast. Note:
First two landings were Apollo 11 & 12
(11+12= 23!). Just exactly what does NASA
know?

April 19th As in 4-19... 4 + 19 = 23. April 19 is the
date the Battle of Lexington, Waco, and
the Oklahoma City Bombing... (4+19=23).
You connect the dots!

April 23 William Shakespeare was born and died on
this date. Most of Shakespeare is known to
us through the first folio published in
1623.

Area 51 Area 51: Secret aircraft! UFOs! Groom
Lake! Gift Shops! 23+23+(2+3)=51.

Asteroids 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. I dunno, physics.

Astrology Johannes Kepler was born at 2:30pm in
1571. In astrology, this gives him an
Ascendant degree of 23 degrees. He was
born at 2:30pm on Dec. 27, 1571 His
astrological rising sign was at 23' of the
sign Gemini, meaning that the
constellation of Gemini was rising in the
east when he was born.

August 23, The day William Wallace, whose life is
1305 fictionalized in the movie Braveheart, was
executed for treason to the crown by
leading a Scottish revolt. Interestingly,
this was the pre-cursor to the underground
Knights Templar refugees' involvement with
Robert the Bruce at the Battle of
Bannockburn. Now it's starting to make
sense, isn't it?

August 23, Birth date of River Phoenix, actor. Died
1970 of drug overdose, "You call him Dr. Bones,
doll!"

August 23 Birth date of Keith Moon, original drummer
for the Who. Also died from drug overdose,
"my decomposition".

August 23rd, David Gottel, a member of Skinny Puppy,
1995 died. Huh.

Average Lunar Average Lunar Cycle is 28 (23+5) days.
Cycle

Average An average menstrual cycle is 28 (23+5)
Menstrual days.
Cycle

Avogadro's The number of atoms of an element in one
Number mole (cf. Atomic Weight) is 6.21x10²³.

BCE Politically correct term meaning "Before
Common Era", or more to the point, before
the supposed birth of Christ the Zealot.
B, C, E: the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th letters of
the alphabet

Film: Babe In the movie Babe, the little piggy is the
23rd contestant for the Sheep Dog contest.
Kind of takes the innocence of the flick
away doesn't it?

TV: Babylon 5 A 5 mile long space station, a 5 year
story line, set in the 23rd century,
naturally. And if you watch closely,
you'll notice it's all parable for Clinton
and Whitewater.

Base 3 The number 23, written in base 3, is 212
(2+1+2=5)

Base 4 23 written to the base 4 is 113 (1+1+3=5).

Base 7 23 written to the base 7 is 32 (3+2=5).

Beer Rolling Rock beer labels have a
mysteriously marketed "33" (2 3's) on the
back of every bottle. Sure they have an
innocent story about the number of letters
and blah blah, but what's the real Masonic
meaning behind all this?

Binary Digits 10111 is the binary equivalent to 23. Note
the five digits, yet another connection to
the Law of Fives.

Biorythm The human biorhythm cycle is generally 23
days. One measures a circle beginning
anywhere.

Blood It takes 23 seconds for blood to
Circulation circulate through the human body.

Film: Blue In the epic cartoon Yellow Submarine the
Meenies Blue Meenies are comprised of a wild pack
of destructive anti-music villains. 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... and you know
what that means.

Boy Scouts The Order of the Arrow: a secret
organization within the Boy Scouts of
America uses "WWW" as one of their
symbols. W is the 23rd letter of the
alphabet. Hmmm... 'w w w' has a ring to
it.

Buddha 2x2x3x3x3 or 2 to the power of 2 times 3
to the power of three = 108, the number of
auspicious signs by which the Buddha is
known.

Burrough's 23 In the early '60's in Tangiers, William
Enigma Burroughs knew a certain "Captain Clark"
who ran a ferry from Tangiers 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 everyone aboard. In the
evening, Burroughs was thinking about this
when he turned on the radio. The first
newscast headlined 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.").

CB Channels There were originally 23 channels of
Citizens Band (CB) radio in the US. There
are now 40.

Sports: Car Camel Cigarettes racing machine bears the
23 number 23. And what is up with Tom Robbins
anyway?

Literature: The Catch-22 of Joseph Heller's book/film:
Catch-22 "If a bomber-pilot don´t want to fly
missions then he´s sane, for
mission-flying is deadly dangerous. If a
bomber does want to fly missions then he´s
insane for missions-flying is deadly
dangerous. The only way to stop flying
missions is to be insane, but if the flyer
does want to fly missions then why
shouldn't he go on? No way out (23)."

Ceasar Ceasar was stabbed 23 times when he was
assassinated.

Crowley In Chapter 23 of the Book of Lies by
Aleister Crowley, the chapter consists
entirely of:
SKIDOO
What man is at ease in his Inn?
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.
If thou hast T already, first get UT.
Then get O.
And so at last get OUT.

Literature: In Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, Sidney
Charles Carlton, the 23rd man, is guillotined in
Dickens 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."

Charly The Academy Award winning film Charly is
the story of a low-grade moron (IQ around
Dan Quayle's) 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 23.

Chomsky and Over 50% of the national media is owned by
23 23 major corporations, as reported by Noam
Chomsky. To recapitulate... more than half
of the information thrust upon the
American people is controlled by only 23
corporations.

Chromosome The human body has 46 chromosomes, which
Pairs are paired, in somatic cells. Generative
cells have half this number, 23, which is
the number of chromosomes each parents
gives to human deoxyribonucleic acid.

Church of 7.32 is the Holy Number of the First
Zypgx Church of Zypgx, which gives all of its
members a number between 7.32 and 8. (7
being the number of luck, 32 being 23
backwards and 8 being approximately the
symbol for infinity. 3.1415 is of course,
the mathematical enigma which is pi.
Multiply these two numbers and you get
almost exactly 23. The followers of the
First Church of Zypgx also believe that
when pi is found to the last decimal
place, the number of their Savior times
exact pi will be precisely 23. And you
thought the Heaven's Gate people were a
bit kooky?

Cigarettes The average smoker smokes 23 butts a day.

Clinton Bill Clinton's numerical initials are B=2
C=3.

Clinton The number of letters in William Jefferson
Clinton is 23.

Clinton William, W being the 23rd letter of the
alphabet.

Computers Computers communicate in 2³ bits (bytes).

Crowley In Aleister Crowley's Cabalistic
Dictionary, he defines the number 23 as
the number of "parting, removal,
separation, joy, a thread, and life..."

Crowley Refer to Chapter 69 of Aleister Crowley's
Book of Lies. 69/3=23. 6+9+3=18. 18=23-5.
We could go off all day...

Cults The law firm which has represented the
Church of Scientology for years purchased
the logo and license agreement of the Cult
Awareness Network (CAN). The Heaven's Gate
Away Team nerds were really happy about
this according to some of their USENET
posts.

Cults There are 23 chapters of the Cult
Awareness Network.

Bible Daniel 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two
thousand and three hundred days; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

Sports: Darts 23 is the lowest positive integer number
not scoreable with one dart on a
dartboard.

January 23rd On January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo was
hijacked off of North Korea. The crew was
held exactly 11 months until December 23,
1968 when they were released after being
beaten by soviets to give back an
intercepted USSR message stating plans to
start a nuclear war with Red China.

April 23, Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and
1564 and died on April 23, 1616.
April 23,
1616

December 23, Birth date of Joseph Smith, founder of The
1805 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (or as the better marketed name,
Mormons).

December 23, Passage of the Federal Reserve Act by 3
1913 members of Congress, 2 of which were
stockholders of the parent firms of the
Federal Reserve Bank.

December 23, The date the Mayans believed the world
2012 will end. Hence why they were really
obsessed with time and it's observance.

December 23, A huge cycle ends in the Mayan calendar.
2012 Terence McKenna thinks the Eschaton will
Immanetize. Other 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 23.5 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
pre-historic race.)

December 23, The date that Dagobert II, a Merovingian
679 King was murdered. Speculation, derived
from the research of the highly
controversial book entitled Holy Blood,
Holy Grail, leads one to conclude this
assassination 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 to best
serve their own interests. 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.

Artists The name of a band.
Currently
Known As
Demolition 23

Descartes 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.

Dillinger 2323 Clark St. Chicago, IL: this is the
theater where John Dillinger was allegedly
shot while leaving after the flick
Manhattan Melodrama ended. Also, have you
noticed that in most movies hotel room
numbers are based on five, with many of
them being 23, or some variation that
breaks down to 5? Oh sure, go ahead and
roll your eyes.

Dillinger John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only
23 for money.

Dvorák's In Dvoráks Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (5th
Symphony No. letter of the alphabet, btw), you hear the
9 morse code for V, the Roman Numeral Symbol
for 5. Titled From the New World, probably
as in "The New World Order". You also hear
the same BA BA BA BUUUMMMMMM (Dot Dot Dot
Dash) in Beethoven's 5th Symphony, which
he wrote after being "Illuminated" by Adam
Weishaupt.

Astrology The axis of the Earth (which currently
points vaguely at Polaris) describes a
circle in the heavens (switching off 'pole
stars' and sometimes going without) over a
period of 23,000 years. Precision, as this
motion is called, also accounts for talk
of our entering the Age of Aquarius (we
entered the age of Pisces around the era
of the birth of the historical Jesus). The
Sun will 'be in' each of the '12' Zodiac
at Spring Solstice (each being an 'age')
during this 23000 year cycle.

Astronomy The axis of the planet Earth is 2.3
degrees. As it is above, so below.

Mathematics 23 Axioms in Euclid's Geometry.

Fallen Angels 2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out
in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the
other 1/3 fell.

Great Pyramid Supposedly there are 2,300 stones
comprising the Great Pyramid.

Film The number on Adam Sandler's helmet in
Happy Gilmore is 23.

Harmonic The harmonic convergence occurs every
Convergence 23,000 years.

Freemason Henry Price is buried in the cemetery of
Henry Price Townsend, Massachusetts. His monument is
an obelisk that measures 69" tall (69 / 3
= 23). On the side of the monument facing
west it says: Henry Price "Founder of Duly
Constituted Masonry in America." On the
east face it says: Born in London about
1697, removed to Boston about 1723,
appointed Provincial Grand Master of New
England in 1733. The monument is carved on
2 faces, made of 3 pieces - base, block,
and cap stone.

Human 63 years, the average lifespan of a human
Lifespan being on the planet Earth, is roughly
23,000 days.

I Ching The I Ching Hexagram 23 means "Break
Apart". Telegrapher's use 23 as the code
for "break the line".

January 23 Adolf Hitler organized the National
Socialist Congress on January 23. On
November 23 he tried to take over.

Human body The number of joints in the human arm is
23.

July 23, 1996 "Mysterious Eyes" of comet Hale-Bopp first
sighted.

July 23 More reported UFO sightings on this day
than any other day of the year.

June 1, 1996 The day Tim Leary died. The date 6-1-1996
provides 6+1+1+9+9+6=32

June 15th, (19 + 04 = 23) The date the ship "General
1904 Slocum" catches fire and over a thousand
die.

June 16th, (19 + 04 = 23) The day James Joyce uses in
1904 Ulysses, who mentions the General Slocum
disaster the day before repeatedly within
this book.

Artists Used There are 23 letters in the name Justified
To Be Known Ancients of Mu Mu
As Justified
Ancients of
Mu Mu

Knights October 13 (10+13=23) is the month and day
Templar that the Knight Templars were arrested in
France... hence Friday the 13th being
considered a day of bad luck. Amazing how
it all starts to fit together, isn't it?

Knights The Templars had only 23 Grandmasters.
Templar Jacques de Molay was the 23rd and last of
the Templar Grandmasters. "Jacques de
Molay, thou art unhinged!"

Artist Born 1967: 1+9+6+7=23. Died 1994:
Previously 1+9+9+4=23
Alive Kurt
Cobain

Video After the Rodney King verdict, a Korean
shopkeeper during the L.A riots 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.

Latin There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet
Alphabet

Level of ONE The newest front society of the
Illuminated, the 23rd level of the ONE is
reported to be the last level attainable
(achieving departure from Earth). Remind
you of something else?

Male Sex 23 days in the male sex cycle (according
Cycle to Tantrists)

Astronomy: The comet Hale Bopp was at her closest
March 23, point to Earth, 123 million miles.
1997

Marilyn Marilyn Monroe's former address is 12305
Monroe Helena Drive.

Astronomy The distance from the center of the planet
Mars to the center of it's farthest moon
is 23,500 kilometers.

Mathematics In base 5, 23 = 2x5 +3 = 13 in decimal
notation. 13 is an amazingly significant
number being the actual level of most
floors labeled 14 in American hotels.

TV Max Headroom broadcast on Network 23.

Sports Michael Jordan's retired shirt number is
23, which is also the day of his father's
death.

Microsoft There are 23 buildings on the Microsoft
campus in Redmond, Washington.

Dutch Shultz Arthur Flengenheimer (a.k.a. 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..."

Mathematics 2/3 of numbers which are multiples of 3
are not divisible by 2.

July 23rd July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian
New Years.

Nissan brand Nissan is a brand of Japanese cars. In
cars Japanese, "ni" is 2, and "san" is 3. So
Nissan would be 23.

Nixon's The Articles of Impeachment meant for
Articles of Richard Nixon were under Article 2,
Impeachment Section 3 of the Constitution.

November 22, The day Kennedy was shot.
1963

November 24, The day Oswald was allegedly shot.
1963

Nuclear Tests The USA performed 23 tests of atomic
detonations at Bikini Atoll in the South
Pacific.

Numerology Two (2) and Three (3) are next to each
other in our numbering system. (e.g.
1,2,3...)

October 23, The day the Hungarian revolution began
1956 against the Russians (Not to be confused
with many previous Hungarian revolutions).

October 23, Supposed date of God's creation of the
4004 BCE world. Thus the 6th Millennium is truly
this year. Pa-arrrrrrrrrr-ty!

Literature: Lines 22-23 of Book I of Milton's Paradise
Paradise Lost Lost read, ".... what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and
support..."

Parliamentary 23 votes are required to rescind a
Procedure Motion.

Geometry: The angle between the rays of a
Pentagons symmetrical-pointed star is 72 degrees.
Also, the angle between legs of a pentagon
is 108 degrees (the complementary angle of
108 is 72(108+72=180)).
(2^3)*(3^2)=2*3*2*3*2=72. (Note that 5
(2^2)*(3^3)=3*2*3*2*3=108. Numbers are
2*3*2*3*5=180 multiplied in each
equation.)

Pepsi Cans Calories: 150 = one 5 Carbohydrates: 41 =
5 As % Daily Value: 14% = 5 Sugars: 41g =
5 1 Can: 12Fl (355 mL) = two 5s, 1, 3, &
2: 1(3+5) = 5, = three 5's. The Pepsi
sigil is a corruption of the Holy Chao...
also directly to the left of the
ingredients you'll find a bold "K" =
Kallisti?

Pepsi The advertisement Security Camera, in
which a Coke worker tries to take a Pepsi
in a convenience store and knocks down the
shelf, displays the time in the upper
right hand corner as 6:23.

Pookah! In the film version (titled Alice) of
Charlie Dodgson's classic Alice in
Wonderland by the 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".

Mathematics: 23 is the first prime number in which
Primes both digits are prime numbers and add up
to another prime number.

Mathematics: Two (2), three (3), and five(5) are the
Primes first three prime numbers in our counting
system. (1 is not prime, it's an
identity.)

Qabala In the Qabalistic Tree of Life the 23rd
path is associated with the Hanged Man
Tarot Card. Aleister Crowley also states
that this card represents the concept that
the only way OUT is WITHIN!

Rave scene 23 HOP is the club where the Toronto rave
scene was created.

Bible: Revelations of The New Testament has 22
Revelations sections the 22nd having 21 lines;
implying a progression to 23

Bible: There is no 23rd Chapter to Revelations.
Revelations

Artist Name of the backup vocalist for the
Claiming To Belgian industrial rock band Front 242.
Be Richard 23

Sports: Ryne Number 23 on the Chicago Cubs, holds MLB
Sandberg record for consecutive errorless innings,
123. The 1 in 123 added to 4, the
numerical designation for second base
equals 5, adhering to the law of fives.

TV: Seinfeld Kramer hides his air conditioner on Level
Purple 23 in a shopping carpark. This
episode was played in Australia on 23
September 1996.

September 23 Rosicrucian (AMORC): Annual Outdoor Fete
is held on September 23, when the sun
enters the sign of Libra.

September 23 The Fall Equinox.

September 23 Yom Kippur.

Sex: 69 (23*3) is one of the many loved sexual
Positions positions of humans. The Zodiac sign for
Cancer looks like a sideways 69. Cancers
are born between June 21 and July 21 and
21+2 (the number of characters in 69)=23

Shakespeare Shakespeare was 46 (2*23) years old in the
year 1610 (1+6+1+0=8, 8=2³), the year the
King James Bible was published. Psalm 46
in that translation has as its 46th word
"shake" while the 46th word from the end
is "spear." Go ahead, explain that one. I
dare ya.

TV: Cartoons Popeye is seen repeatedly pondering the
number 23 in many of his 1970's TV
Cartoons.

Astronomy: Sirius, the Dog Star, rises with the sun
Sirius every solar year on what is classified by
the Gregorian calendar system as July
23rd. (6/23)=((2*3)/23)

Astronomy: The "Dog Days" of summer begin on July
Sirius 23rd when the star Sirius, in the
Constellation of Orion, first rises from
behind the sun.

Mathematics: Square root(s) of 2,3, and 5 are used in
Square Roots respect to tetrahedral hyperdimensional
physics and perfect form in design.
Square root(s)of 2, 3, and 5 supposedly
relative to D&M Pyramid on Mars and other
similar relationships. Also these square
roots were quite common in early
architecture and considered the most
aesthetically pleasing in design.

TV: Star In most every episode of ST:TNG, if a
Trek: The number is given it will usually be a 23
Next (or 23,000).
Generation

Film: Star R2-D2 and C-3PO: R2+C3=RC (Rosy Cross,
Wars Rosecrucian) and 23.

Film: Star When Luke Skywalker is in the trench
Wars during his bombing run, the first number
you see on the targeting computer is 23.
The next scene that shows the computer
shows the number 32.

Film: Star The Millennium Falcon escapes Mos Eisley
Wars spaceport from docking bay 94 (9/3=3 and
4/2=2 reverse it and you get 23).

Film: Star In the final assault on the Death Star,
Wars Luke Skywalker is in Red 5. Red 2 and Red
3 start the bomb runs at 23 degrees. "Stay
on target!"

Film: Star The cell block where Princess Leia was
Wars held on the Death Star was AA-23.

Computers: Standard TCP/IP port for Telnet is 23.
TCP/IP

Film: George Lucas' first real movie, in
THX-1138 alphabetic order, T=20, H=8, X=24.
(T)20-(H)8=12; 1+3+8=12; reconcile:
12-12=0 which leaves (X)24-1=23.

Alphabet E is the fifth letter of the alphabet, and
also the most commonly used in the English
language. W is the 23rd letter of the
alphabet. Half of W is V, which is the
roman numeral for 5. Once again,
therefore, the inherent connection between
5 and 23 is proven. Relent ye skeptics!

Artists The first song on Side A of the Beatles
Cutely Named first Album took 23 takes to record.
The Beatles.

Bible I Corinthians 15:56, Paul said "The sting
of death [23] is sin and the strength of
sin [13] is the law [10]."

Bible Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall
not want..."

Church of the Famed church, espoused by Skinny Puppy and
Process Psychic TV, which regards 23 as a special
number of great significance.

Tarot The trump cards, or the Major Arcana of
the Tarot represent a cycle, or wheel. The
cards are 22 in number, "beginning" with
the fool and "ending" with the universe.
But, as the standard musical scale of
western music is an octave (seven notes
(ABCDEFG) with the first repeated as the
last (ABCDEFGA) to represent the
progressive cycle of the musical scale),
the 22 trumps, when arranged with the fool
at the "beginning and end", actually form
a cycle of 23.

Astronomy The number of days in a year on Earth is
365.2422.

Freemasons The address of the Freemasons lodge in
Stafford, England is 23 Jaol Rd. In New
York it is on 23rd street.

Mob 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 assassination) 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 in St. Raymond's
Cemetery.

Film: The In the movie The Prophecy, the Bible
Prophecy belonging to the dead angel Uziel has it's
bookmark on the 23rd chapter of
Revelations.

Tarot There is no 23rd card in the Major Arcana.

Tarot 2 is the number of balance, 3 is the
number of synergy and 5 is the number of
strife in the Tarot deck. Presumably,
therefore, if things always changed, or if
things never changed we would be all
right, but when both happen, we experience
troubling times.

Unabomber The Unabomber allegedly hurt or killed 23
people.

Astrology: The days on which the signs of the Zodiac
Zodiac begin/ and end are the 22nd and 23rd of
every month.

Physics: On average every 23rd wave crashing to
Tidal Wave shore is twice as large as normal.
Frequency

Money: U.S. There are exactly 23 plainly visible
Coinage characters (letters & numbers) on the
front of U.S. Coins.

Artists U is the 21st letter in the alphabet added
Marketed As to the number two gives you 23.
U2

UFOs Regarding UFOs, the myth-inspiring Hangar
18 is yet another alien parts store.
(23-5=18)

Computers: Most URLs for the web contain 2 "/"s and 3
URLs W's..

Physics: The name of the Uranium isotope used in
Uranium bombs is U235.
Isotopes

Physics: The symbol for the 23rd element is V
Vanadium (roman numeral 5).

W W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet and
is also the shape a woman's legs form
while copulating in the missionary
position. W is also the first letter in
the names of many important historic
figures (Washington or Weishaupt for
example).

W W, the only letter in the English language
to be renounced polysyllabically, is 23rd
in line. Note also that it is a
double(2)-u and that t has three(3)
syllables.

Washington, Washington starts with the letter "W"
D.C. which is the 23rd letter in the alphabet.
The Pentagon (5 sides) building is located
in Washington D.C.

Sports: World 23 World Series have been won by the New
Series York Yankees. Also they won their first
World Series in 1923. Ah, statistics.

Computers: 23+23+23=WWW, the World Wide Web is
World Wide referred by "WWW." W, of course, occupies
Web the 23rd position in the alphabet. Tim
Berners-Lee, at CERN, created the Web.
CERN=3,5,18,14. 24=(18+14)-(3+5). Close
one.

TV: X-Files Ten-Thirteen (10+13=23) is the name of the
production company famed for producing
shows like the X-files and Millennium.
10-13 is the Birth date of creator Chris
Carter and the day the Knights Templar
were arrested in France in 1307.

TV: X-Files Agent Mulder goes to the apartment of a
recently deceased man, and we see the
number 23 on the door as he is let in.

TV: X-Files 1013 (10+13=23) is the number on the
abandoned nuclear missile silo where a UFO
is contained and Crycek is locked up by
the Men in Black in an episode of X-Files.

Film: Die In the movie Die Hard III the train
Hard III derails in subway station 23


 
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