Well today is my birthday. I am 23 years old. But I don’t feel that old, nor does it feel like my birthday. With all the craziness of the past week’s tornadoes and recovery, I feel like I am in a different world: no one had power, no one went to work, nothing was open, and so many people lost their homes. It was just strange.
But in honor of my birthday, I thought I would look up the significance of the number 23. Here's what I found:
- 23 is a prime number
- Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes
- There are 23 discs in the human spine
- Psalm 23 is the Shepherd’s Psalm and one of the most popular and well-known Psalm
- 1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
- Michael Jordan’s jersey number was 23
- Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times
- The man who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind, John Forbes Nash, was obsessed with the number 23
- 23 is the age of the world’s youngest grandmother (This is insane! I am not even ready to have kids yet!)
- The Number 23 is a movie starring Jim Carrey (never saw it but I remember it looked interesting)
- 23 Enigma is the thought that all events and incidents are somehow related to the number 23
- According to the birthday paradox, in a group of 23 randomly chosen people, the probability is 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday (found this very interesting and I want to test it out!)
- The title of a song by Jimmy Eat World (this song was on the One Tree Hill soundtrack, which is one of my favorite shows and the song fits it SO well!)
Also in honor of my birthday, I am posting some interesting things in history that happened on my birthday as well as famous people that share my birthday
1904 – Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal .
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, actress, is born
1930 – Katherine Jackson, mother of the Jackson
1932 – In Atlanta , Georgia
1953 – Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – Randy Travis, American Country musician
1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
1970 – Will Arnett, American/Canadian actor
1972 – Chris Tomlin, American Christian musician
1975 – Kimora Lee Simmons, American fashion model
1978 – Erin Andrews, ESPN sideline reporter
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento , California
May 4th is not only my birthday but it is also…
Bird Day in the United States
International Firefighter’s Day
Star Wars Day “May the fourth be with you.” (Pretty clever, huh?)
