~dixsept

OK -here we have a new club or clique or whatever you wanna call it - celebrating the number 17! And why not!!!!

If you would like to be a member - note me and away we go!

I do not expect anything fom my members other than a link on you page and LOYALTY TO THE NUMBER!!!!!!

one more thing - feel free to e-mail me any submissions you'd like to submit - involving or to do with the number 17

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FACTFILE

17 is considered a bad luck number because in roman numerals 17 is written XVII which is an anagram for VIXI which is latin meaning "I lived" and I lived implies that i'm no longer alive anymore, so it's death!!!!

In Italy, buildings do not have a 17th floor, hotels do not have a room 17, and Alitalia planes do not have a seat 17 [neither do Air Inter planes and British Airways Concordes]. When Renault marketed its R17 and wanted to export it to Italy, it had to be renamed "Renault 177". Napoleon Bonaparte, who was more Italian than French in his education, refused to give the signal for his coup on "vendredi 17 brumaire" and postponed it until the following day.

One of the earliest mentioning of the number 17 was by the Egyptians. The Rhind papyrus from 1700BC contained the following 2/17 = 1/2 + 1/51 + 1/68 (which is FALSE! This is the only error in list of expansions of fractions of the form 2/n into sums of unit or Egyptian fractions.)

The mummy of King Tutankhamen was wrapped in 17 sheets.

Henry VIII's first wife had 17 children who died before their first birthday.

Telemann wrote 17 operas.

The French revolution took place in 1789 (8+9 = 17).

In Chatou (78400, France), a street is called rue des dix-sept (i.e. street of the seventeens). The extension of rue de Sahüne was given this name in December 1880. In 1878, the town council considered that property Fauchat was suitable to be a future town hall. But the heirs refused to sell the house separately, and the town council didn't want to (or couldn't) buy the whole domain. Mayor Bousson engaged its fellow citizens to form a civil company to buy all of it. This company was constituted by 17 people. It gave the town the house and some land while it sold the surplus by lots, making a profit given to the town. The names and the photos of these 17 are displayed on a board in the town hall. These are Mr. Albin, Barbier, Bardon, Baudry, Blin, Bousson, Coulon, Déjardin, Dijon, Ducellier, Huser, Lambert, Laubeuf, Marais, Sandel, Sarazin and Yvon. Source: tourist bureau of Chatou.

There are 17 muscles in the tongue.

The Japanese poetry Haiku contains 17 syllables

The first atomic bomb, prepared by 1700 people, was dropped onto Hiroshima 17 seconds late

The Lebanon war lasted 17 years: 1975-1992.

On September 4, 1996, the USA launched 17 missiles against Iraq.

In 1987, Hideaki Tomoyori recited 40,000 digits of pi in 17 hours. (and for your info - I can, off the top of my head, name the first 10 - that comes from one really boring maths lesson - 3.141592654)

A ton of recycled paper allows to save 17 trees.