Archive for the 'Numbers' Category

57 Acedemic Journals with Interesting Titles

Agricultural Wastes
Anaerobe
Annales d’Urologie
Blood Reviews
The Breast
Card Technology Today
Ceramics International
Cladistics
Communist Affairs
Dental Materials
Desalination
Disease-a-Month
Emotion
Endeavour
Fibrinolysis and Proteolysis
Fish & Shellfish Immunology
Focus on Surfactants
The Foot
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Harmful Algae
Injury Extra
International Journal of Fatigue
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
Joint Bone Spine
Journal of Arid Environments
Journal of Luminescence
The Journal of Supercritical Fluids
Journal of the Less Common Metals
The Leadership Quarterly
The Lichenologist
Maturitas
Meat Science
Non-Destructive Testing
Nurse Leader
Opportunistic Pathogens
Placenta
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25 Great things

1 The Great Wall of China – a great wall – in China – and no you can not see it from space
2 The Great White Way – Broadway in New York City, so named from the lights of the many theatres
3 The Great Trek – the movement of over 10,000 Boers across South Africa in the late [...]

Numbers

29 Number of years Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay had been producing oil before BP temporarily shut down part of it because of pipe corrosion
14 Number of years since the pipelines had been cleaned and checked, with a device known as a smart pig
13% Percentage of 1,500 Internet users, ages 10 to 17, who said in a [...]

Numbers May 29, 2006

$17,316 Total value of personal gifts to President Bush last year, including a $5,474 bicycle$39,722 Value of gifts to Vice President Cheney, including a $6,125 Colt revolver
40,000 Average number of people on the official Medicare and Medicaid websites at any moment on May 15, the last day to enroll in the government’s drug-benefit plan
89% [...]