FACT: 39 years ago today, as the story the goes, two adventurous fellas named Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin had been searching for a week to find evidence of cryptozoology's best known mystery, Bigfoot, when their horses reared-up while riding through California's Bluff Creek valley.

Patterson, an ex-rodeo rider, quickly recovered, grabbed his rented 16mm camera from his saddlebags and began shooting something crouching near a creek on their left. What the men claim to have shot has become some of the most controversial film footage ever developed: 53 seconds of an ape-like (or ape-suited man) steadily walking away from the pair.

So cryptozoology's most famous mystery creature, Bigfoot, at last had been "captured." Or maybe not. Naturally the shocking footage and the men behind the camera stirred up a huge amount of debate, suspicion and controversy when it was released. Since the film's debut, die-hard believers and skeptical detractors have managed to make an entire cottage industry over the footage for years.

To help you sort it out for yourself, here's a quick reference guide of FACTs surrounding the film, the creature, the men and the ensueing debate:

• Details on M.K. Davis' stabilized version of the film
  
  
• Patterson-Gimlin Film at Wikipedia
  
  
• Big Foot: Fact or Fantasy?
  
  
• Nitpicker's Guide to the Patterson/Gimlin Bigfoot Film
  
  
• Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film Frames in Series analysis
  
  
• How Not to Plan a Hoaxed Film
  
  
• The Bigfoot Field Researches Organization - A sightings database with Bigfoot sound recordings
  
  
• British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club Sasquatch/Bigfoot
  
  
• Shameless plug for an old friend's restaurant, Bigfoot Bar-B-Q in Flagstaff, AZ.

I dunno, I could go either way, but the barbecue's good.

Cyptozoology | Bigfoot | Sasquatch | Patterson-Gimlin Film
FACTs | Film | Hoaxes | PGF | Grouchogandhi

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In my book, great sound is the key element to immersing an audience into a world and story regardless of a film's budget. With QUIET, a short about a girl's frustration and struggle after losing her hearing in a car accident, SoCal Film Group uses great sound production to sit the audience about 3 inches inside the main character's head.

QUIET's well-crafted soundtrack offers up a unique POV from most other films. The audience only hears what Lindsey (Kendra Cover) hears after being in a car accident. Lindsey's hearing is damaged and the soundtrack presents her growing isolation from the audible world perfectly: ear-piercing ringing, muted voices, tension-building heartbeats and frustrating silence.

The film's story and sound build to an intense climax and put the audience right inside Lindsey's muted world of terror. The feel-good short of the year, it is not.

The film hasn't appeared online yet, but SoCal's blog mentions some opportunites to catch it later this month at a couple of Silver Lake Film Festival screenings.

Here are some other takes on QUIET:

• Writer/Producer Steve Barr 'On Making QUIET'
  
  
• Film Threat's review by Joshua Grover-David Patterson

Go see — and hear — this short if you can!

Movies | SoCal Film Group | QUIET
DV | Digital Filmmaking | Film | Grouchogandhi

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"A bitter thing, a lamentable thing, a thing horrible to think of and terrible to hear, a detestable crime, an execrable evil deed, an abominable work, a detestable disgrace, a thing wholly inhuman, foreign to all humanity, has, thanks to the reports of several persons worthy of faith, reached our ears, not without striking us with great astonishment and causing us to tremble with violent horror, and, as we consider its gravity an immense pain rises in us, all the more cruelly because there is no doubt that the enormity of the crime overflows to the point of being an offence to the divine majesty, a shame for humanity, a pernicious example of evil and a universal scandal."

So begins the secret orders of king Philip the Fair to his seneschals for the arrest of the Knights Templar within his territories on October 13, 1307.

The arrest of the Templars by King Philip on this day 699 years ago was the beginning of the end for the warrior monks that had reached the pinnacle of power in Christendom. Templar knights, sergeants, administrators and priests were arrested simultaneously across the country, though many escaped with the Templar fleet and Temple treasure, both having disappeared without a trace to history the night before, or simply melted away into the population. After a little Inquisitional torture, confessions came quickly confirming the most sordid acts of heresy, desecration of the cross, certain sexual acts and worship of a mysterious head known as "Baphomet". The Templars were toast.

Several Templar and Masonic historians have put forth the theory that the superstition of Friday the 13th's association as being an unlucky day can trace its origins to the arrests of the Templars:

"And so it was at dawn of the following day, Friday the Thirteenth in October of 1307, that almost every Templar knight, priest, sergeant, and servant in France was arrested and put in chains. The arresting party at the Paris Temple was led by the king's chancellor in person, probably to assure admittance. The date was ever after regarded as an ominous time, but although for the rest of the world it might have become an amusing superstition, for the Knights Templar that Friday the Thirteenth was the unluckiest day of that or any other year. Their torture began the same day."

— Dungeon, Fire and Sword:
The Knights Templar in the Crusades,
John J. Robinson

"When [Jacques] de Molay retired that night, there was no way he could have known that just before the dawn of the next day an event would occur of such shattering dimensions that the date, Friday the Thirteenth, would live for centuries in the minds of millions as the unluckiest day of the year."

— Born in Blood:
The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry,
John J. Robinson

"[The Knights Templar], it must be remembered, was, with the sole exception of the Papacy, the most important, most powerful, most prestigious, most apparently unshakable institution of its age. At the time of [King] Philippe's attack, it was nearly two centuries old and regarded as one of the central pillars of Western Christendom. For most of it contemporaries, it seemed as immutable, as durable, as permanent as the Church herself. That such an edifice should be so summarily demolished rocked the foundation upon which rested the assumptions and beliefs of the epoch. Thus, for example, Dante, in the 'The Divine Comedy', expresses his shock and his sympathy for the persecuted 'White Mantles'. Indeed, the superstition which holds Friday the 13th to be a day of misfortune is believed to stem from Philippe's initial raids on Friday, 13 October 1307."

— The Temple and the Lodge,
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

"Eventually, after the Templars were driven from the Holy Land, they set up their headquarters in France. But by 1306, Philip IV of France (Philip the Fair) grew fearful of them and sought to destroy them, hoping also to confiscate their treasures. On Friday the thirteenth of October, 1307, Philip had all the Templars in France — save thirteen &mdash arrested. This is said to be the origin of the superstition that bad luck falls on every Friday-the-thirteenth."

— New World Order:
The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies,
William T. Still

Now people with paraskavedekatriaphobia don't have to have an irrational fear of the date. The can have a rational fear of it.

Knights Templar | Freemasonry | History | Friday the 13th
Superstitions | Philip IV | France | FACTs | Grouchogandhi

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Originally identified as a Spanish Catholic cross, a 150+ year old artifact found by a family on a slope of the Colorado's Grand Mesa in the 1960s turns out to be a Masonic Knights Templar sword's sheath.

Here's the skinny on the find:

• At first, the artifact itself had been lost after being handed off to the Museum of Western Colorado but it was relocated this summer. Check out the detailed photo just over halfway down the article and if you know Masonic symbolism, you'll recognize the engravings immediately.
  
  
• Then, when the news of finding the lost artifact was published in the newspaper, a reader recognized it as similar to his grandfather's ceremonial Masonic sword.
  
  
• The Denver Post published a highly uninformed article about the Masonic connection to the artifact.

Interestingly, the "experts" are having a problem digesting how the Masonic sheath could have found it's way to the pre-1860s white settlement of the Grand Mesa area.

The obvious question becomes, could this artifact have been dropped at a much earlier date, oh say by Pre-Columbus renegade Templars from Europe?

Freemasonry | History | Colorado | Relics | Knights Templar
Constantine | Museum of Western Colorado | Grouchogandhi

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So, to no great surprise really, Columbia University broadcast itself as a bastion for fascist tactics against free speech last night. When invited guest Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist was about 7 minutes into his speech on the topic of illegal immigration, a group of students mounted the stage and assaulted the invited guests while hurling insults and fists.

Why? The Columbia Spectator quoted one student involved in the ruckus:

"I don't feel like we need to apologize or anything. It was fundamentally a part of free speech. ... The Minutemen are not a legitimate part of the debate on immigration."

Ah, thank Eris, very wise college kids know what's legitimate for debate and who's allowed to participate.

Stories here:

• Minutemen Mobbed
  
  
• At Columbia, Students Attack Minuteman Founder
  
  
• Minutemen suffer defeat at Columbia University
  
  
• Campus protesters quash Minuteman speech
  
  
• Mob rule at Columbia University

Hey, indoctrination, the only way to learn.

Socialism | Fascism | Columbia University | Free Speech
Videos | YouTube | Immigration | Grouchogandhi

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ABC's Lost returns at 9/8c to confound viewers tonight and the gazillion Lost blogs will be firing up to dissect each episode for clues to WTF is going on.

Here's a quick reference guide to some of the better Lost blogs to help make sense of it all:

• The Lost Blog - A great starting point to get your head around the show's mysteries
  
  
• The Lost Numbers - What do the Numbers mean? Outside of the William S. Burrough's 23 and Douglas Adams' 42, I dunno, but at least someone is taking the time to document every appearance and combination of the show's magical mystery numbers "4 8 15 16 23 42".
  
  
• Lost Links - A great resource linking into what's being discussed online about Lost.
  
  
• Lost Whispers - Providing MP3s and best-guess transcripts as to what the "whispers" the characters recurringly hear are saying as subtext. Wonderful resource.
  

Don't forget, if you miss the show, ABC.com streams the episodes the day after the television broadcast. See you on the Island!

TV | Television | Lost | 4 8 15 16 23 42
Puzzles | Blogs | Grouchogandhi

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October 2 is the Most Sacred Gg Holyday celebrating the dual birthings of our dear patron saints, Groucho Marx and Mahatma Gandhi. Huh, what?

Okay, here, Wilson's Almanac will put the pieces together for you.

As such, like any good person on this Most Solidly Sacred Holyday, we offer of ourselves (or, lacking something sufficient, our stashes) in sacrifice to the Goddess of Discord, Eris — Hail, Discordia! — so that others may receive Her infectious and chaotic spirit on such quirky fnord occasions.

This year's sacrifice is a "very rare" digital scan of a copy of Omar K. Ravenhurst's (Kerry Thornley) very own Discordian Society Pope-i-fier Official Certificate approximated and invoked by wonderfully "high" resolution occult techologies and completely suitable for printing, framing, or passing out as the "News of the Revolution" to any of The Folk you might happen to be agitating in some mall or public place.

Just fill in the blanks, and become a Pope of the most successful in-joke religion in history, Discordianism! Praise, Eris! Collect all Eight!

Become a Certified
Discordian Pope!

Click to Embiggen Thee!

Flipside Bonus! An Issue of
Thornley's Out-of-Order Wallzine

Click to Embiggen Thee!

Now there's absolutely no reason left to keep lollygagging and putting off your instinctual craving for more chaos in your life! Take this Most Solidly Sacred Holyday and accept Eris into your heart, or else you'll see!

Birthdays | Holydays | Groucho Marx | Mahatma Gandhi
Sacrifices | Free Stuff | Certificates | October 2 | Patron Saints
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NOTE: This article is totally and — without the least little pinge of guilt — shamelessly lifted from the ye olde impropaganda site of yore.

From the site:

"We [you know, THEM] understand the value of knowledge combined with action. Here we provide a means for you to test out your new found knowledge of the paranoid mindset with everyone's favorite numerical enigma, 23 (Twenty-three). You'll soon find that 23 consistantly pops up in all sorts of places, usually everywhere you look.

This is a growing list of synchronistic occurances of 23 and some close calls. Feel free to add your own interesting 23 tidbit. Here's an example to get you down the right path: 2 divided by 3 equals .666. See? Easy enough, and hey, that's just for starters! CAUTION: Once you get the trick, your friends and co-workers who have yet to achieve enlightenment may find you a bit annoying and label you as 'obsessive.'"

Great, let's see what we can add! Post your 23 Enigma! For example:

Movies - The upcoming The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey about "a man who becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life but ends with a murder that has yet to happen in real life." I totally connect to this.

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Here's the famous list:


23 Frequency Enigma

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 Currently Known As 311

Pop-mystical hard-core band with Alien and A+ Bud overtones. (3+ [1+1]) = 32. 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 Rooms

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

Film: Airplane II: The Sequel

In the movie Airplane II the name of the space ship is the XR - 2300.

Victory/Peace hand sign

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

Airplane disaster

230 people died on TWA Flight 800.

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 Letter W

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

Apollo Lunar Landings 1 & 2

First landing on the Moon was in the Sea of Tranquility, 23.63 degrees East. Second 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, 1305

The day William Wallace, whose life is 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, 1970

Birth date of River Phoenix, actor. Died 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, 1995

David Gottel, a member of Skinny Puppy, died. Huh.

Average Lunar Cycle

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

Average Menstrual Cycle

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

Avogadro's Number

The number of atoms of an element in one 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 Circulation

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

Film: Blue Meenies

In the epic cartoon Yellow Submarine the 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 Enigma

In the early '60's in Tangiers, William 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 23

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

Literature: Catch-22

The Catch-22 of Joseph Heller's book/film: "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: Charles Dickens

In Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, Sidney Carton, 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."

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 23

Over 50% of the national media is owned by 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 Pairs

The human body has 46 chromosomes, which 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 Zypgx

7.32 is the Holy Number of the First 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, 1564 and April 23, 1616

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

December 23, 1805

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

December 23, 1913

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

December 23, 2012

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

December 23, 2012

A huge cycle ends in the Mayan calendar. 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, 679

The date that Dagobert II, a Merovingian 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 Currently Known As Demolition 23

The name of a band.

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 Symphony No. 9

In Dvoráks Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (5th letter of the alphabet, btw), you hear the 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 Convergence

The harmonic convergence occurs every 23,000 years.

Freemason Henry Price

Henry Price is buried in the cemetery of 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 Lifespan

63 years, the average lifespan of a human 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, 1904

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

June 16th, 1904

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

Artists Used To Be Known As Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

There are 23 letters in the name Justified Ancients of Mu Mu

Knights Templar

October 13 (10+13=23) is the month and day that the Knights Templar 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 Templar

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

Artist Previously Alive Kurt Cobain

Born 1967: 1+9+6+7=23. Died 1994: 1+9+9+4=23

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 Alphabet

There are 23 letters in the Latin 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 Cycle

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

Astronomy: March 23, 1997

The comet Hale Bopp was at her closest point to Earth, 123 million miles.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe's former address is 12305 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 cars

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

Nixon's Articles of Impeachment

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

November 22, 1963

The day Kennedy was shot.

November 24, 1963

The day Oswald was allegedly shot.

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, 1956

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

October 23, 4004 BCE

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

Literature: Paradise Lost

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

Parliamentary Procedure

23 votes are required to rescind a Motion.

Geometry: Pentagons

The angle between the rays of a 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 Wonderlandby 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: Primes

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

Mathematics: Primes

Two (2), three (3), and five(5) are the 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

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

Bible: Revelations

There is no 23rd Chapter to Revelations.

Artist Claiming To Be Richard 23

Name of the backup vocalist for the Belgian industrial rock band Front 242.

Sports: Ryne Sandberg

Number 23 on the Chicago Cubs, holds MLB 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: Positions

69 (23*3) is one of the many loved sexual 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

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

Astronomy: Sirius

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

Mathematics: Square Roots

Square root(s) of 2,3, and 5 are used in 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 Trek: The Next Generation

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

Film: Star Wars

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

Film: Star Wars

When Luke Skywalker is in the trench 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 Wars

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

Film: Star Wars

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. "Stay on target!"

Film: Star Wars

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

Computers: TCP/IP

Standard TCP/IP port for Telnet is 23.

Film: THX-1138

George Lucas' first real movie, in 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 Cutely Named The Beatles.

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

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 Process

Famed church, espoused by Skinny Puppy and 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 Prophecy

In the movie The Prophecy, the Bible 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: Zodiac

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

Physics: Tidal Wave Frequency

On average every 23rd wave crashing to shore is twice as large as normal.

Money: U.S. Coinage

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

Artists Marketed As U2

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

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

Computers: URLs

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

Physics: Uranium Isotopes

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

Physics: Vanadium

The symbol for the 23rd element is V (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, D.C.

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

Sports: World Series

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

Computers: World Wide Web

23+23+23=WWW, the World Wide Web is referred by "WWW." W, of course, occupies 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 Hard With a Vengeance

In the movie Die Hard With A Vengeance the train derails in subway station 23.

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