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'''AD 23''' (''']''') was a ] of the ]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the ] of ] and ]''' (or, less frequently, '''year 776 '']'''''). The denomination AD 23 for this year has been used since the early ], when the ] ] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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==Events==
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* ] ] ] publishes ''Geography'', a work covering the world known to the ] and ] at the time of Emperor ] - it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.
* ]' son ] dies. From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure.
* ] begins to dominate the ] and ], after the death of Julius Caesar Drusus.
* ] and Gaius Antistius Vetus become ].


====Asia==== == Events ==
*], a descendant of the ] royal family and leader of insurgents against the ], proclaims himself emperor against ].
* June — After being sieged for 2 months, 9,000 insurgents under ] defeat 450,000 of ]'s troops in the ], ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of the ] in China.


==Births== === By place ===
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* Greek ] ] publishes ], a work covering the world known to the ] and ] at the time of Emperor ] &ndash; it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.<ref>{{cite book|last=Roller|first=Duane W.|title=The building program of Herod the Great|year=1998|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20934-3|page=65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZsB1yQOmyEC&dq=Strabo+publishes+Geography+23&pg=PA65}}</ref>
*] — ], daughter of ], the first person recorded to be strangled by the trunk of an elephant
* Emperor ]' son ] dies.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bunson|first=Matthew|title=Encyclopedia of the Roman empire|year=2002|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-4562-4|pages=187–188|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5tic2VunRoC&dq=Julius+Caesar+Drusus+died+23&pg=PA187|edition=2nd}}</ref> From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure.
*] — ], son of the Emperor ], poisoned
* ] begins to dominate the ] and Tiberius, after the death of Drusus.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Adkins|first1=Lesley|last2=Adkins|first2=Roy A.|title=Handbook to life in ancient Rome|year=2004|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-5026-0|page=23|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGY1Sqjwf8kC&dq=Lucius+Aelius+Sejanus+senate+23&pg=PA18|edition=2nd}}</ref>
*] — ], "usurper" of the throne of the ] and Emperor of the Xin Dynasty (b. ])
*], Chinese astronomer
*], Chinese general
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*], King of Mauretania
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* ], a descendant of the ] royal family and leader of insurgents against the ], proclaims himself emperor against ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Giele|first=Enno|title=Imperial decision-making and communication in early China: a study of Cai Yong's Duduan|year=2006|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-05334-1|page=218|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pb5veqFrpvIC&dq=Liu+Xuan+emperor+23&pg=PA218}}</ref>
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* July &ndash; After being under siege for two months, about 19,000 insurgents under ] defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the ], ushering in the fall of Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and restoration of the Han dynasty.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schram|first=Stuart R.|title=Mao's road to power: revolutionary writings 1912–1949|year=1992|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=978-1-56324-457-5|page=366|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K8K7b_nC6BsC&dq=Battle+of+Kunyang+23&pg=PA366|volume=1}}</ref>
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== Births ==
* ], Roman scientist and writer<ref>{{cite book|last=Healy|first=John F.|title=Pliny the Elder on science and technology|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-814687-2|page=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hz6D4H-s5psC&dq=Pliny+the+Elder+born+23&pg=PA1}}</ref> (d. ])


== Deaths ==
* ] &ndash; ], son of Emperor ]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=Alan K.|last2=Champlin|first2=Edward|last3=Lintott|first3=Andrew|title=The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.–A.D. 69|year=1996|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26430-3|pages=213|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZLW4-wba7UC&dq=Drusus+poisoned+September+14%2C+23&pg=PA213|edition=2nd}}</ref> (b. ])
* ] &ndash; ], Chinese emperor of the ] (b. c. ])<ref>{{cite book|last=Clark|first=Anthony E.|title=Ban Gu's history of early China|year=2008|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=978-1-60497-561-1|page=110|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cUF0ZCTRPwEC&dq=Wang+Mang+October+6%2C+23&pg=PA110}}</ref>
* ], king of ]<ref>{{cite book|last=Rocca|first=Samuel|title=Herod's Judaea: a Mediterranean state in the classical world|year=2008|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|isbn=978-3-16-149717-9|page=58|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaUSt9sQP2wC&dq=Juba+II+died+23&pg=PA58}}</ref> (b. c. ])
* ], Chinese astronomer, mathematician and politician<ref>{{cite book|last=Yunis|first=Harvey|title=Written texts and the rise of literate culture in ancient Greece|year=2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80930-6|page=125|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMve3wMT4g0C&dq=Liu+Xin+died+23&pg=PA124}}</ref> (b. c. ])
* ], Chinese general and politician
* ], Roman statesman
* ], Chinese empress of the Xin dynasty (b. ])


== References ==
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====General====


723 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!


666 2 / 3 = .666... This stuff can be dangerous.

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


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


Airplane disaster 230 people died on TWA Flight 800.


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


Aleister CrowleyIn Chapter 23 of theBook 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.

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


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


Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg died at 2:39pm April 5: 2+3+9+4+5=23. The code at the bottom of theReuter's article about Ginsberg's death reads: '23:28'. (28=23+5).


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.


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!


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


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.





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


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


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


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


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


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


Artists Perceived as Psychick TV Psychick TV made the Guiness Book of World Records by release the most amount of albums in the shortest time period. 23 albums in 23 months on the 23rd of each month.


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


AsteroidsAsteroid 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: Zodiac The days on which the signs of the Zodiac begin and end are the 22nd and 23rd of most months.


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.


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 23,000 year cycle.


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


Astronomy: Sirius Sirius A has a luminosity of 23.5.


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.


Astronomy On the evening of March 23, 1997 in the US, not only was the comet Hale-Bopp clearly visible, but there was also a lunar eclipse. Mars was also at its closest distance to Earth.


Astronomy The axis of the planet Earth is 23.5 degrees.As it is above, so below.


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


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


August 23, 1305 The day William Wallace, whose life is fictionalized in the movieBraveheart, 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


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 thereal Masonic meaning behind all this?


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


Bible: Revelations The most frequent numbers in the Book of Revelations are 4 (the powerful beasts), 7(seven seals, seven churches, etc.), and 12 (12 apostles, etc.). 4+7+12=23!


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


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


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


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


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


Biorythm 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.


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 ferry23 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 anotherCaptain Clark and the flight was listed asFlight 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.


Cartoons: Bugs Bunny Bug Bunny says in one cartoon "frick-a-frack-a fire-crack-er siss boom bah! Bugs Bunn-y Bugs Bunn-y Rah Rah Rah!" There are 19 syllables in this cryptic statement. 1-9=-8, or -2³, the prime number before 23. Wow... people are funny.


Ceasar Ceasar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated.


Charly The Academy Award winning filmCharly 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 timesexact pi will be precisely 23. And you thought the Heaven's Gate people were a bit kooky?


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


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.


Comics: Superman Superman got his new 'electric' look inSuperman issue #123.


Computers: 32 bit bus The fifth generation is the 32 bit bus, 32 being the fifth power os 2, and 2³ * 2².


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


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


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.


Computers Computers communicate in 2³ bits (bytes).


Cults: L. Ron Hubbard His Axiom 23: All thought is concerned with motion.


Cults There are 23 chapters of the Cult Awareness Network. Incidentally, the over-zealous law firm which for years has represented the "Church" of Scientology, a more successful joke religion than even Discordianism, 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.


December 23, 1805 Birth date of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or as the better marketing name goes, 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. Another example that conspiracies are nothing more than a good ol' boy network of elitist college buddies. You do the same thing all the time... this just happens to affect more people.


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 offive planets directly opposing the Spaceship 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, general mayhem and undoubtedly affect the quarterly earnings of Nike. All because the earth is slightly tilted, averaging about 23.5 degrees! (Refer to Graham Hancock'sFingerprints 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, 2012 The date the Mayans believed the world will end. Hence why they werereally obsessed with time and it's observance.


December 23, 679 The date that Dagobert II, a Merovingian King was murdered. Speculation, derived from the research of the highly controversial book entitledHoly 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.


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 hisMeditations 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, but you can't escape it.


Dillinger John Dillinger robbed 26 banks, but only 23 for money. Now that's a statement.


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..."


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. TitledFrom 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.


Fallen Angels Two-thirds of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the other third fell.


Film: Blue Meenies In the epic cartoonYellow 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.


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


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


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


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


Film:Hackers In the movieHackers, the data which causes all the action is take from 'data bank 23'.


Film:Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) The first trash truck seen transporting pods is labled number 23.


Film:Lawrence of Arabia Anthony Quinn's character proclaims he has 23 wounds upon his body.


Film:Lost Highway In David Lynch's film,Lost Highway, Fred's number in the jail is 47516 (4+7+5+1+6=23).


Film:Nixon In Oliver Stone'sNixon, Tricky Dick's football jersey at Whittier is number 23.


Film:Quiz Show A waiter chooses 23 when asked for a random number, and the contestant follows with a list of 23 related facts to show his knowledge base.


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


Film:Star Wars TK421, the only stormtrooper called by name in theStar Wars trilogy. T(20)+k(11)+4-2-1=32. The reverse of 23.Now that's the spirit! Why aren't you at you're post?


Film:Star Wars The cell block where Princess Leia was held on the Death Star was AA-23 on Level 5. A.'.A.'.?


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:Support Your Local Gunslingler James Garner's character, who despises roulette, announces that he has "an irresistible urge to bet on the number 23." 23 becomes a running gag throughout the comedy-western.


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.


Film:The Prophecy In the movieThe Prophecy, the Bible belonging to the dead angel Uziel is bookmarked on the 23rd chapter of Revelations.


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


Flight 800 The two recovered seats from TWA Flight 800 with shrapnel damage were Seats 23J and 23K. The explosion is theorized to have occurred at this location.


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.


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


General Custer Custer achieved the rank of General at the young age of 23, the youngest general in the U.S. army at the time.


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=58. Numbers are 2*3*2*3*5=180 multiplied in each equation.)




Great Pyramid Supposedly there are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid. Uh-huh... sure.


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


Health: Centrum Silver There are 23 vitamins and minerals in a Centrum Silver tablet.


Hiroshima Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945 (8+6+4+5=23).


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


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


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


January 23rd On January 23, 1968 theUSS 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.


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. This is the flapday of the year.


July 23rd July 23rd is both the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years.


June 1, 1996 The day Tim Leary died. The date 6-1-1996 provides 6+1+1+9+9+6=32, or 23 backwards.


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 inUlysses, who mentions theGeneral Slocum disaster the day before repeatedly within this book.


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


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?


Literature: Charles Dickens In Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, Sidney Carlton, the 23rd man, is guillotined in the final scene." The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all flashes away. Twenty-Three."


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)."


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


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


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


Mathematics: Hexadecimal The Hex equivalent of 23 is 17, therefore all references to the number 17 are indirect references to the number 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.)


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.


Mathematics 23 Axioms in Euclid's Geometry.


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


Mathematics Two-thirds of numbers which are divisible by 2 are not multiples of 3.


Microsoft There are 23 buildings on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. Where do you want Bill Gates to go today?


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.


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


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. In the sweetest irony, Our Beloved First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was one of the young lawyers who helped research the constitutionality of impeaching a reigning President. Nice of her to do all the groundwork for us...


November 22, 1963 The day Kennedy was shot.


November 24, 1963 The day Oswald wasallegedly 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...). Takethat!


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


October 23, 4004 BC According to Bishop Usher in hisAnnales Veteris Testament (Annals of the Old Testament), the supposed date of God's creation of the world is October 23, 4004 BC. Thus the 6th Millennium is this year. Gonna pa-arrrrrrrrrr-ty likes it's 5999!


Parliamentary Procedure 23 votes are required to rescind a Motion.


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 advertisementSecurity 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.


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


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).


Pookah! In the film version (titledAlice) of Charlie Dodgson's classicAlice 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".


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.


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 born on April 23, 1564 and died on April 23, 1616. 23+23=46. Shakespeare was 46 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. It's also a fun party trick!


Space Program, Russian On March 14, 1997, NASA representative states that MIR 23 space station is having problems resulting from the February 23, 1997 fire and has used 23 of their oxygen-generating canisters. It is the 23rd day aboard for the Russian crew. Progress 233 supply vehicle has problems of its own and cannot redock with MIR.


Space Program, US Saturn V (2+3=5) rockets were used to launch the Apollo missions to the moon.


Space Program, US The longitudinal coordinates of the Apollo 11 moon landing were 23.63 degrees. (2+3=5 while 6+3=9=3²)

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

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


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.


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.


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


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


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.


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.


TV:Sesame Street Bert is a member of the National Association of W Lovers. W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet, if you haven't had that driven into your head by now.


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).


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


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.


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


TV Max Headroom broadcast on Network 23.


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.


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.


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


The Artists Formerly Engaged as The Police Their songSynchronicity I is 3:23 long.


Timothy Leary Fortean Times #97 reported that Timothy Leary's ashes were to be launched into space the 2nd week of March (the third month). The launch contained the ashes of Timothy Leary,Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and23 others...


UFO's: Roswell, NM The date of the 'weather balloon' crash at Roswell, New Mexico was July 3, 1947. 7+3+1+9+4+7=32. The reverse of 23.


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


Unabomber The Unabomberallegedly hurt or killed 23 people.


V In filing systems which make a special place for the symbol 'Mc', V is the 23rd letter of that system.


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.


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.


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.
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Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the smallest odd prime which is not a twin prime. Twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the second Woodall prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1.

The fifth Sophie Germain prime and the fourth safe prime, 23 is the next to last member of the first Cunningham chain of the first kind to have five terms (2, 5, 11, 23, 47). Since 14! + 1 is a multiple of 23 but 23 is not one more than a multiple 14, 23 is a Pillai prime. 23 is the smallest odd prime to be a highly cototient number, as the solution to x - φ(x) for the integers 95, 119, 143, 529.

Twenty-three is the aliquot sum of two integers; the discrete biprimes 57 and 85 and is the base of the 23-aliquot tree.

23 is the first prime P for which unique factorization of cyclotomic integers based on the P'th root of unity breaks down.

The sum of the first 23 primes is 874, which is divisible by 23, a property shared by few other numbers.

In the list of Fortunate numbers, 23 occurs twice, since adding 23 to either the fifth or eighth primorial gives a prime number (namely 2333 and 9699713).

23 also has the distinction of being one of two integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than 9 cubes of integers (the other is 239). See Waring's problem.

23 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number. The codewords in the perfect (non-extended) binary Golay code are of size 23.

According to the birthday paradox, in a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday.

There were 23 problems on David Hilbert's famous list of unsolved mathematical problems, presented to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900.

In base 10, 23 is the second Smarandache-Wellin prime, as it is the concatenation of the base 10 representations of the first two primes (2 and 3) and is itself also prime. It is also a happy number in base 10. 23! is 23 digits long in base 10. There are only three other numbers that have this property: 1, 22, and 24.

The natural logarithms of all positive integers lower than 23 are known to have binary BBP-type formulae.

The first 6 digits of Pi are 3.14159 which all add up to 23.


The number 23 has been retired for quite a few prominent athletes. Michael Jordan wore number 23 (with the exception of a short period of time) when he played professional basketball with the Chicago Bulls and, later, the Washington Wizards. Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees wore number 23; the New York Yankees retired the number in 1997. Ryne Sandberg, of the Chicago Cubs, wore number 23, which was retired on August 28, 2005. Bob Nystrom of the New York Islanders wore number 23 and has had the number retired in his honour.

As a tribute to Michael Jordan, David Beckham chose 23 as his shirt number at Real Madrid, and subsequently at LA Galaxy.

Manchester City F.C. have not assigned the squad number 23 to any player since 2003. This is because Marc-Vivien Foé, the player who collapsed and died while playing for Cameroon on June 26, 2003, had held this squad number at Manchester City. Club Brugge KV, a Belgian football team, has done the same when their number 23, François Sterchele died on May 8, 2008 in a car accident.


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* The human biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days.
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* It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate through the human body.
* The tilt of Earth's axis is roughly 23 degrees.
* A human baby receives 23 chromosomes from each parent.
* The 23rd letter of the English alphabet is W.
* On a keyboard, W lies directly below the two and three.
* It is said that Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.
* The Ancient Egyptians hailed the New Year on July 23 - the day Sirius rises behind the sun.
* The first prime number wherein both of the digits are prime and add up to another prime number is 23.
* The 23rd letter of the alphabet, W, has 3 points up and 2 points down.
* Two-thirds or, 2/3, is equal to .666.
* The first Morse code transmission is reported to have been “What hath god wrought?”. A Biblical quote from Numbers 23:23.
* The “Day the Music Died” was February 3 or, 2-3. This was of course the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died.
* Devin Hester, whose jersey number is 23, becomes the first person to return the opening kickoff for a touchdown in a Super Bowl ( XLI ).
* The Titanic sank on the morning of April 15th, 1912. 4 + 1 + 5 + 1 +9 + 1 + 2 = 23
* Humans have 23 vertebra running down the main part of their spines.
* Hitler joined a secret society in 1923.
* There are exzactly 23 characters on every U.S. coin.
* The U.S. set off 23 atomic bombs in the Pacific's Bakini Atoll.
* Pancho Villa was killed on July 23, 1923.
* TV:Sesame Street Bert is a member of the National Association of W Lovers. W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet, if you haven't had that driven into your head by now.
* Michael Jordan's shirt number is 23, which is also the day of his father's murder.
* The distance from the center of the planet Mars to the center of it's farthest moon is 23,500 kilometers.

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Gregorian calendarAD 23
XXIII
Ab urbe condita776
Assyrian calendar4773
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−571 – −570
Berber calendar973
Buddhist calendar567
Burmese calendar−615
Byzantine calendar5531–5532
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
2720 or 2513
    — to —
癸未年 (Water Goat)
2721 or 2514
Coptic calendar−261 – −260
Discordian calendar1189
Ethiopian calendar15–16
Hebrew calendar3783–3784
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat79–80
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3123–3124
Holocene calendar10023
Iranian calendar599 BP – 598 BP
Islamic calendar617 BH – 616 BH
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XXIII
Korean calendar2356
Minguo calendar1889 before ROC
民前1889年
Nanakshahi calendar−1445
Seleucid era334/335 AG
Thai solar calendar565–566
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
149 or −232 or −1004
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阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
150 or −231 or −1003
Portrait of King Juba II (48 BC–AD 23)

AD 23 (XXIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Pollio and Vetus (or, less frequently, year 776 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 23 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

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Roman Empire

China

  • Liu Xuan, a descendant of the Han dynasty royal family and leader of insurgents against the Xin dynasty, proclaims himself emperor against Wang Mang.
  • July – After being under siege for two months, about 19,000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the Battle of Kunyang, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and restoration of the Han dynasty.
  • October 6 – Emperor Liu Xuan's forces kill Wang Mang at the end of a three-day siege.

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