This is a bit Donald Rumsfeld, but it is certainly true that the more of these facts I see, the more I know I don’t know, except I would know if I could remember them all.
But enough of that.
Let’s get on with today’s lot.
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The official state vegetable of Oklahoma
is the watermelon.
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Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.
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The word ‘Hazard’ comes from the Arabic ‘al zahr’ which means ‘the dice’.
The term came to be associated with dice during the Crusades
and eventually took on a negative connotation because
games of dice were associated with gambling.
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If you eat a teaspoon of sugar after eating something spicy,
it will completely neutralize the heat.
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When the oldest person on Earth was born,
there was a completely different set of people on the planet.
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The last veteran of the American Civil War died in 1956,
long enough to see the atomic bomb dropped in Japan.
Albert Henry Woolson, last surviving Civil War veteran on either side whose status is undisputed.
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A “butt load” is an actual unit of measurement,
equivalent to 126 gallons.
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The word ‘posh’, which denotes luxurious rooms or accommodations,
originated when ticket agents in England
marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient.
Since there was no air conditioning in those days,
it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship
as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area.
Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra
to get cabins on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia,
and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe.
Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for
Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
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Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag,
it looks like two pennants glued one on top of the other.
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Dr Seuss wrote “Green Eggs And Ham”
to win a bet against his publisher
who thought that Seuss could not complete
a book using only 50 words.
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Crocodiles are more closely related to birds than to lizards.
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Not only was James Garfield ambidextrous,
he could write Latin with one hand
and Greek with the other at the same time.
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Shakespeare and Pocahontas
were alive at the same time.
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Kiribati is the first country in the world
that will be entirely lost due to rising sea levels.
Twenty more random questions to test you knowledge, some easy and some difficult, but there are a few multi-pointers in to help you with your score.
As usual the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
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Q. 1: How many ‘contiguous’ states are there in the United States of America?
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Q. 2: In which movie would you find the robot or cyborg known as the ‘T-800’?
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Q. 3: The 2014 Winter Olympics are being held next month (February 2014) in what country? (A bonus point is available if you can also name the City.)
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Q. 4: Where were the previous (2010) Winter Olympics held and what location has been chosen for the next Winter Olympics in 2018? (A point for each and bonus points if you can also name the Cities.)
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Q. 5: Which company built the ‘1972 911 Carrera RS’ classic automobile?
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Q. 6: In what country did the soup known as ‘Miso’ originate?
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Q. 7: Name the fictional detective associated with ‘Mrs. Hudson’.
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Q. 8: What kind of mixed drink takes its name from the Hindi or Sanskrit word for ‘five’?
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Q. 9: What is the common name for the garden flower ‘Helianthus’?
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Q. 10: ‘Thimpu’ is the capital of what country?
a) Nepal b) Bhutan c) Bahrain
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Q. 11: Where was Super Bowl XLVII played on February 3, 2013?
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Q. 12: In the late 1960s and early 1970s Leonard Nimoy starred in two classic television series, what were they? (Yes, a point for each correct answer and bonus points for the names of the characters he portrayed.)
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Q. 13: ‘Rosalind’, ‘Portia’ and ‘Ophelia’ are moons of which planet?
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Q. 14: A picture of Betty Grable wearing a white bathing suit made her the most popular pin-up of which war?
a) WWI b) WWII c) Korea d) Vietnam
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Q. 15: Scandinavia is a large region of Northern Europe. What are the four mainland countries and one island nation that are generally collectively known as ‘Scandinavia’? (A point for each correct answer.)
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Q. 16: As of the end of 2013, who has won the Academy award for Best Actor the most times? (Bonus points if you can name the movies too.)
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Q. 17: What sort of creature is a whinchat?
a) fish b) insect c) bird d) mammal
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Q. 18: ‘Columbo’, ‘Morse’, ‘Magnum’, ‘Bergerac’, and ‘Nash Bridges’ were all television detectives and policemen who had one thing in common apart from their jobs, what was it?
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Q. 19: With one word complete the following Acme Corporation inventions in ‘The Roadrunner’.
a) dehydrated _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and, b) portable _ _ _ _ _
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Q. 20: Released in 1954, a single by Bill Haley & His Comets became one of the best selling songs of all time with sales of 25 million. What was it?
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Q. 1: How many ‘contiguous’ states are there in the United States of America?
A. 1: 48.
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Q. 2: In which movie would you find the robot or cyborg known as the ‘T-800’?
A. 2: Terminator.
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Q. 3: The 2014 Winter Olympics are being held next month (February 2014) in what country? (A bonus point is available if you can also name the City.)
A. 3: The 2014 XXII Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.
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Q. 4: Where were the previous (2010) Winter Olympics held and what location has been chosen for the next Winter Olympics in 2018? (A point for each and bonus points if you can also name the Cities.)
A. 4: Vancouver, Canada in 2010 and Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.
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Q. 5: Which company built the ‘1972 911 Carrera RS’ classic automobile?
A. 5: Porsche.
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Q. 6: In what country did the soup known as ‘Miso’ originate?
A. 6: Japan.
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Q. 7: Name the fictional detective associated with ‘Mrs. Hudson’.
A. 7: Sherlock Holmes.
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Q. 8: What kind of mixed drink takes its name from the Hindi or Sanskrit word for ‘five’?
A. 8: Punch.
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Q. 9: What is the common name for the garden flower ‘Helianthus’?
A. 9: Sunflower.
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Q. 10: ‘Thimpu’ is the capital of what country?
a) Nepal b) Bhutan c) Bahrain
A. 10: b) Bhutan.
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Q. 11: Where was Super Bowl XLVII played on February 3, 2013?
A. 11: At the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Q. 12: In the late 1960s and early 1970s Leonard Nimoy starred in two classic television series, what were they? (Yes, a point for each correct answer and bonus points for the names of the characters he portrayed.)
A. 12: Mr. Spock in Star Trek (1966-1969, 79 episodes) and Paris in Mission Impossible (1969-1971, 49 episodes).
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Q. 13: ‘Rosalind’, ‘Portia’ and ‘Ophelia’ are moons of which planet?
A. 13: Uranus.
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Q. 14: A picture of Betty Grable wearing a white bathing suit made her the most popular pin-up of which war?
a) WWI b) WWII c) Korea d) Vietnam
A. 14: b) WWII
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Q. 15: Scandinavia is a large region of Northern Europe. What are the four mainland countries and one island nation that are generally collectively known as ‘Scandinavia’? (A point for each correct answer.)
A. 15: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
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Q. 16: As of the end of 2013, who has won the Academy award for Best Actor the most times? (Bonus points if you can name the movies too.)
A. 16: Daniel Day-Lewis. (In 1990 for ‘My Left Foot’, in 2008 for ‘There Will Be Blood’, and in 2013 for ‘Lincoln’.)
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Q. 17: What sort of creature is a whinchat?
a) fish b) insect c) bird d) mammal
A. 17: c) bird.
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Q. 18: ‘Columbo’, ‘Morse’, ‘Magnum’, ‘Bergerac’, and ‘Nash Bridges’ were all television detectives and policemen who had one thing in common apart from their jobs, what was it?
A. 18: They all drove classic or distinctive cars.
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Q. 19: With one word complete the following Acme Corporation inventions in ‘The Roadrunner’.
a) dehydrated _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and, b) portable _ _ _ _ _
A. 19: a) dehydrated boulders and, b) portable holes
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Q. 20: Released in 1954, a single by Bill Haley & His Comets became one of the best selling songs of all time with sales of 25 million. What was it?
Today is another numbers day and the randomly chosen number is twenty-seven. Were you born on the 27th, is it your lucky number, has it some other significance for you or do you just like facts and trivia. Whatever your interest you will probably find something in here that you didn’t know about the number twenty-seven.
Enjoy.
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Number Twenty-Seven 27
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In religion
There are six occurrences of 27th in the Bible: Genesis 8.14; I Kings 16.10, 16.15; 2 Kings 15.1, 25.27; Ezekiel 29.17
God creates man “male & female” in the 27th verse in Genesis I;
After the Flood, the earth was dried on the 27th day of the 2nd month (Genesis 8.14);
In the 27th year the Lord gave Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon;
Book 27 of Proverbs has 27 verses;
The New Testament is made up of 27 books;
The Book of Revelation is the 27th Book and last book of the New Testament;
John Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion when he was 27 years old (1536);
Twenty-seven is the highest level of knowledge in rupaloke (Buddhism);
In ancient Incan culture there were 27 roads to El Dorado.
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In mathematics
An Octillion is 1027 which is a 1 followed by 27 zeros
Twenty-seven is a perfect cube, being 3 to the power of 3 or 3 × 3 × 3.
Twenty-seven is the only positive integer that is 3 times the sum of its digits.
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In science
The atomic number of Cobalt (Co) is 27
The atomic weight of Aluminum (Al) is 27
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In space
Solar rotation: The Sun rotates on its axis once in about 27 days;
The 27th moon of Jupiter is Sinope.
The planet Uranus has 27 moons
Messier 27, the Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Apple Core Nebula, M 27, or NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years;
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On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, he was 27 years old;
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This is the official insignia of the NASA STS-27 mission. The patch depicts the space shuttle lifting off against the multi-colored backdrop of a rainbow, symbolizing the triumphal return to flight of our nation’s manned space program. The design also commemorates the memory of the crew of Challenger mission STS-51-L, represented by the seven stars. The names of the flight crew members of STS-27 are located along the border of the patch. They are astronauts Robert L. Gibson, commander; Guy S. Gardner, pilot; Jerry L. Ross, Richard M. (Mike) Mullane and William M. Shepherd, mission specialists. Each crew member contributed to the design of the insignia.
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In books, music, TV and movies
Rudolph Valentino was 27 when he stared in film Blood and Sand;
Sergei Eisenstein directs The Battleship Potemkin in 1925, aged 27;
27 year old Greta Garbo uttered the famous words, “I want to be alone” in film Grand Hotel in 1932;
Errol Flynn (1909-1959) stars in film Charge of the Light Brigade (1936);
Ingmar Bergman (born 7-14-1918) directs his first film Crisis (1945);
Deanna Durbin, teenage star retires in 1949, aged 27, after her 22 film career;
In the 1977 Carl Reiner movie Oh, God!, Jerry Landers (John Denver), a supermarket manager meets God (George Burns) on the 27th floor in Room 2700;
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has made contact with twenty-seven species of aliens in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation;
The following famous authors published these works when they were 27 years old: Jacob Grimm, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812-1815); George Sand, her first book, Indiana in 1831; Nikolai Gogol, The Inspector General in 1836 and Upton Sinclair, The Jungle in 1906;
Famous Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes The Kilmarnock Poems in 1786, aged 27;
Rupert Brooke was 27 when he wrote the poem “If I should die, think only this of me…” in 1914; he died the following year (1915) in World War I;
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Hugh Hefner (born 1926) publishes Playboy magazine (1953);
In 1956, Grace Kelly was 27 years old when she retired from movies to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco;
Aged 27 Julie Andrews starred in her first film Mary Poppins in 1963 and won an Oscar for the Best Actress (1964);
January 27 is the birthday of Mozart 1756, Lewis Carroll 1832, and Jerome Kern 1885;
When he is 27 years old Claude Debussy composes Claire de Lune in 1890;
The 27 Club is the collective term used when talking about musicians and singers who all died at the age of 27: Robert Johnston, blues singer and musician; Brian Jones, founder member of the Rolling Stones; Janis Joplin, rock singer, from drugs overdose in 1970; Jimmy Hendrix, rock guitarist, died from drugs overdose in 1970; Jim Morrison, rock singer, from a heart attack in 1971; Kurt Corbain, rock singer, from drugs overdose in 1994; and Amy Winehouse, singer, from drink and drug overdose in 2011.
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In politics
Florida became the 27th State to enter the Union (March 3, 1845)
There are twenty-seven words in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution;
The 27th President of the United States was William Howard Taft (1857-1930), who served (1909-1913). He later served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930).
President William H Taft
Taft was the heaviest president ever at 332 pounds, and famously got stuck in the White House bathtub. Subsequently he had an oversized version brought in for his use.
William Howard Taft was the first president to own a car at the White House (he had the White House stables converted into a 4-car garage), the first to throw out the first ball to begin the professional baseball season, and the first president to be buried in the National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, also making Taft the first President of the 48 contiguous states.
Taft liked milk so much that he brought his own cow to the White House. The cows name was Mooly Wolly. Mooly was replaced by another cow called Paulin. Paulin was the last cow to graze on the White House lawn.
During his administration, the U.S. parcel post system began, but sadly during his term Congress approved the 16th Amendment, providing for the levying of an income tax.
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In sport
Carlton Fisk, Baseball Hall of Famer, wore uniform #27 while playing with the Boston Red Sox. Fisk waves his homer fair to win Game 6 of the 1975 World Series 7-6 in the 12th inning against the Cinncinati Reds.
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The size of a tennis court for singles is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide.
In tennis Bill Tilden (1893-1953) won his first Wimbledon tennis championship in 1920 at the age of 27 (he went on to win it two more times in 1921 and 1930); he also won his first US Championship in 1920 aged 27 (and went on to win it six more times in 1921-25, and in 1929)
At the age of 27, Bob Feller achieved a strike-out record of 348 batters; Sandy Koufax breaks his own NL strike-out record with 276 and also sets major-league record with 11 shut-outs for a left-hander;
Dawn Fraser won the Olympic 100-meters freestyle swimming in 1964 aged 27.
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In militaria
USS Suwannee (CVE-27)
During WWII, USS Suwannee (CVE-27) (originally an oiler AO-33, converted to an escort carrier AVG/ACV/CVE-27) saw a great deal of active service and earned 13 battle stars. She took part in the invasion of North Africa and during the Naval Battle of Casablanca from 8–11 November, Suwannee sent up 255 air sorties and lost only five planes, three in combat and two to operational problems. She was also the first escort carrier to score against the enemy undersea menace, and she helped to prove the usefulness of her type in anti-submarine warfare.
Later the Suwannee was sent to the South Pacific. For the next seven months, she provided air escort for transports and supply ships replenishing and bolstering the marines on Guadalcanal, as well as for the forces occupying other islands in the Solomons group. She also participated in the Gilbert Islands operation as part of the Air Support Group of the Southern Attack Force, and her planes bombed Tarawa, while the ships in the Northern Attack Force engaged the enemy at Makin.
During 1944 the Suwannee joined the Northern Attack Force, and her planes bombed and strafed Roi and Namur Islands, in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, and conducted antisubmarine patrols for the task force. By 30 March, she was in the vicinity of the Palau Islands as the 5th Fleet subjected those islands to two days of extensive bombing raids.
On 24–25 October 1944, the Japanese launched a major surface offensive from three directions to contest the landings at Leyte Gulf. Suwanee was hit during the attacks but was able to resume air operations helped to fight off two more air attacks. Just after noon on 26 October, another group of kamikazes jumped Taffy 1. A Zero crashed into Suwanee’s flight deck at 1240 and careened into a torpedo bomber which had just been recovered. The two planes erupted upon contact as did nine other planes on her flight deck. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. The casualties for 25-26 October were 107 dead and 160 wounded.
Suwannee remained in reserve at Boston for the next 12 years. She was redesignated an escort helicopter aircraft carrier, CVHE-27, on 12 June 1955. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 March 1959. Her hulk was sold to the Isbrantsen Steamship Company, of New York City on 30 November 1959 for conversion to merchant service. The project was subsequently canceled and, in May 1961, her hulk was resold to the J.C. Berkwit Company, also of New York City. She was finally scrapped in Bilbao, Spain, in June 1962.
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MIG-27
The Mikoyan MiG-27 is a variable-geometry ground-attack aircraft, originally built by the Mikoyan design bureau in the Soviet Union and later license-produced in India by Hindustan Aeronautics as the Bahadur (“Valiant”). It is based on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 fighter aircraft, but optimized for air-to-ground attack. Unlike the MiG-23, the MiG-27 did not see widespread use outside Russia, as most countries opted for the MiG-23BN and Sukhoi Su-25 instead. It currently only remains in service with the Indian, Kazakh and Sri Lankan Air Forces in the ground attack role. All Russian and Ukrainian MiG-27s have been retired.
It was used by Soviet forces during the later stages of the Afghanistan conflict in 1987–1989.
The MiG-27 aircraft also entered service with the Sri Lanka Air Force in 2000. During the Sri Lankan Civil War, they saw considerable action bombing strategic targets and providing close air support.
Since 2001, the Indian Air Force has lost 12 MiG-27s to crashes and in mid-February 2010, India grounded its entire fleet of over 150 of the aircraft after a MiG-27 crashed on 16 February 2010 in Siliguri, West Bengal. The crash was attributed to defects in the R 29 engines of the aircraft, suspected to have occurred during the overhauling of the aircraft by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
The MiG-27 remains in service with the Kazakh Air Force.
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Alenia C-27J
The Alenia C-27J Spartan is a medium-sized military transport aircraft. The C-27J is an advanced derivative of Alenia Aeronautica’s G.222, with the engines and systems of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules.
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CZ 27
The CZ-27, a single action semiautomatic pistol with a capacity of 8 or 9 rounds, was developed in around 1926 by Czech arms designer Frantisek Myska in an attempt to produce simplified version of the CZ Vz.24 pistol, chambered for less powerful 7.65×17 SR Browning ammunition (also known as .32 ACP) and suited for police and security use.
It was put into production in 1927, at arms factory in Praha. Until the appearance of the famous CZ-75 pistol, the CZ-27 was one of the most successful handguns produced in Czechoslovakia, with well over 500 000 guns of this type produced between 1927 and 1951. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia it was manufactured for German armed forces and police as Pistole model 27, or P.27(t) in short. It was extensively used by Czechoslovak police and security forces, and widely exported to many parts of the world.
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OTs-27 “Berdysh” pistol
Originally developed by the TSKIB SOO (central design bureau for sporting and hunting arms, Tula, Russia, later merged with famous KBP design bureau) the OTs-27 “Berdysh” is a Double Action semiautomatic 9 mm pistol with a capacity of 18 rounds. It was developed for “Grach” trials, with the goal being the replacement for the venerable Makarov PM as a standard issue sidearm for Russian army. The OTs-27 was subsequently dropped from the Grach trials, but the development continued and the pistol first appeared circa 1994.
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Other stuff
Cities located at 27 degrees longitude are Lajes, Azores and Izmir, Turkey;
Cities located at 27 degrees latitude are Brisbane, Australia and Katmandu, Nepal;
There are 27 bones in the human hand;
The Hebrew alphabet consists of 27 letters;
Napoleon was named commander of the army of Italy during his 27th year, on March 2, 1796;
Elias Howe invents the first sewing machine in 1846 when he was 27 years old;
When he was aged 27 F.W. Woolworth founded Woolworth Co. (1879) selling 5¢ and 10¢ merchandise;
There are 27 small cubes in a Rubik’s cube;
In 1806, aged 27, Zebulon M. Pike discovers Pike’s Peak, Colorado;
At the age of 27, Captain Matthew Webb was the first person to swim the English Channel in 1875. He took 21 hours 43 minutes for the distance of 21 miles. Sadly eight years later, aged 35, Webb drowned while trying to swim across the waters above Niagara Falls in an attempt to exploit his fame as a swimmer. A memorial stone to Webb carries this inscription: “Nothing Great Is Easy”.
John Smith was 27 years old when he led the first English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607; he was saved from death by Pocohontas.
Today the number is 100, very popular, much used by almost everyone. Here are some things about 100 that you may know and some you probably don’t.
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100 One Hundred
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In Religion
Shem was an hundred years old when he became a father (Genesis 11:10);
Abraham was also one hundred years of age when his son Isaac was born (Gen. 21:5);
Obadiah saved one hundred prophets by hiding them in a cave and feeding them. (I Kings 18.4);
Jesus’ parable of the 100th lost sheep (Matthew 18.12);
Nicodemus brought one hundred pounds of myrrh & aloes to embalm Jesus after his crucifixion (John 19.39);
Paul’s 14 Epistles in the New Testament total one hundred chapters;
There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year;
A religious Jew is expected to utter at least one hundred blessings daily.
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In politics
The United States Senate has 100 Senators, two from each of the 50 States;
“The First Hundred Days” is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States’ performance at the beginning of his or her term.
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In mathematics
A Centillion 10303 has 100 groups of three zeros after 1000;
A Googol is the figure 1 followed by 100 zeroes, written 10100. It was invented by Milton Sirotta, the 9-year nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner;
A 10×10 Magic Square has 100 squares with numbers 1-100, each row, column & diagonal adding to 505 with the total sum being 5050;
There are exactly 100 prime numbers whose digits are in strictly ascending order. (e.g. 239, 2357 etc.);
Pythagoreans considered 100 as divinely divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad;
The standard SI prefix for a hundred is “hecto-“;
100 is the basis of percentages (per cent meaning “per hundred” in Latin), with 100% being a full amount and representing wholeness, purity, or perfection.
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In science
One hundred is the Atomic Number of Fermium, a radioactive rare earth metal;
One hundred is the molecular weight of Calcium Carbonate;
The boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius.
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In space
Messier 100 is a perfect example of a grand design spiral galaxy, a type of galaxy with prominent and very well-defined spiral arms.
These dusty structures swirl around the galaxy’s nucleus, and are marked by a flurry of star formation activity that dots Messier 100 with bright blue, high-mass stars.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
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In Finance
Most of the world’s currencies are divided into 100 sub-units; for example, one dollar or one euro is made up of one hundred cents, and one pound sterling is one hundred pence;
The U.S. hundred-dollar bill (the largest US bill in print) has Benjamin Franklin’s portrait;
American savings bonds of $100 have Thomas Jefferson’s portrait;
American $100 treasury bonds have Andrew Jackson’s portrait;
The FTSE 100, NASDAQ 100, etc., are financial tables of the top companies on the various stock exchanges.
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In sport
100 is the number of yards in an American football field (not including the end zones);
100 is the minimum distance in yards for a Par 3 on a golf course;
The 100 meters sprint is the race that brings with it the title of the fastest man in the world. Current holder is Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt;
100 points scored by Wilt Chamberlain is the record number of points scored in one NBA game by a single player in basketball game, achieved when Philadelphia Warrior defeated New York Knicks 169-147 on March 2, 1962 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The 316 points by both teams surpassed the record of 312 when Boston defeated Minneapolis 173-139 on Feb. 27, 1959 in Boston.
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In militaria
The Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) between France & England lasted 116 years.
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Ultimax 100
The Ultimax 100 is a squad automatic weapon / light machine gun. It was created by the small arms design team at Chartered Industries of Singapore (CIS; now Singapore Technologies Kinetics) Inc, that included American small arms designer James Sullivan, who previously worked for Armalite and participated in design of the AR-18 assault rifle.In 1982 it was adopted by the Singaporean army. The current production version is Ultimax 100 Mark 3.
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Type 100 Submachine Gun
Designed and built by the Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Japan, the Type 100 Submachine gun was used during World War II, and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity. It was modeled on the famous Bergmann MP18 submachine gun. First samples were delivered to the Imperial Army in 1942 and in total some 30,000 were manufactured.
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F-100
The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979.
The first of the Century Series collection of USAF jet fighters, it was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight.
The F-100 was originally designed by North American Aviation as a higher performance follow-on to the F-86 Sabre air superiority fighter.
Adapted as a fighter bomber, the F-100 would be supplanted by the Mach 2 class F-105 Thunderchief for strike missions over North Vietnam. The F-100 flew extensively over South Vietnam as the Air Force’s primary close air support jet until replaced by the more efficient subsonic LTV A-7 Corsair II.
The F-100 also served in other NATO air forces and with other U.S. allies. In its later life, it was often referred to as “the Hun,” a shortened version of “one hundred.
This aircraft is now on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
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JF-100
NASA’s JF-100 Variable Stability Aircraft is a research aircraft about which very little information is readily available. Only scattered references of it remain in bits of documents and reports.
The JF-100 was built from an Air Force F-100C by NASA’s Ames Research Center, and transferred to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in 1960. The “J” designation refers to it being modified for special test missions, but not so extensively that it could not be returned to being a standard F-100. The aircraft obviously was acquired from the Air Force and carried the registration number 53-1709, but no information about its earlier career was available.
The JF-100 was removed from service as a variable stability aircraft at NASA Dryden in 1964, but its final disposition could not be determined. The information is most likely buried in various reports somewhere, waiting to be rediscovered by a future researcher.
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F100 class frigates
The Álvaro de Bazán class (also known as the F100 class of frigates) are a new class of Aegis combat system-equipped air defence frigates entering service with the Spanish Navy. They are being built in the Spanish factory of Navantia in Ferrol and are named after Admiral Álvaro de Bazán.
The ships are fitted with American Aegis weapons technology allowing them to track hundreds of airborne targets simultaneously as part of its air defence network. The F100 Alvaro de Bazan class multi-role frigate is one of the few non-US warships to carry the Aegis Combat System and its associated AN/SPY-1 radar. Japan’s Kongo class, South Korea’s King Sejong the Great class, the F100-derived Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen class of frigates also use the Aegis system. Lockheed Martin, Navantia and the U.S. Navy are conducting final systems integration.
Spanish Navy F 100 Class Frigate, Almirante Juan de Borbon
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SU-100
Designed on the chasis of the T-34-85 tank, the tank hunter SU-100 was produced until March 1946 with a total number of 3037 units made.
It was one of the most effective anti-tank units up to 1948. In 1960, the SU-100 was upgraded with the installation of a new enhanced B2-34M engine, fuel pump NK-10, air cleaners VTI-3, commander observation equipment TPKU-2B and driver’s night sight BVN, as well as radio sets 10RT-26E and TPU-47.
The SU-100 was produced in Czechoslovakia and was in the inventory of several African and Middle East countries. The Arabs actively used it in military conflicts with Israel.
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In United Kingdom, 100 is the operator telephone number;
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