The Number 23

Joel Schumacher’s The Number 23 is the 23rd film he has directed (counting both his TV and film work).

The names of leading man Jim Carrey and either Joel Schumacher or the leading actress Virginia Madsen form the sum of 23 letters when added together.

The film opened in both the US and America on February 23, 2007. Add the digits of 2007 to 23 and you get 32 – 23 in reverse.

All the numerals from the date 9/11/2001 add up to 23

Julius Caesar was stabbed a total of 23 times.

The Hiroshima Bomb was dropped on Japan at 8.15

The witches’ sabbath is June 23

An explosion on doomed TWA Flight 800 occurred in seats 23J and 23K

The name George Herbert Walker Bush contains 23 letters

The first Morse code transmission, “What hath God wrought?” was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23

The Earth has an axial tilt of about 23° 27’

There are 46 chromosomes in the human body – 23 from each partner

Blood circulates the body on average every 23 seconds

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. He was born on April 23, 1564

There are more UFO sightings on July 23 than any other day of the year

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was born in 1967 and died in 1994. If you add the digits of each year, both add up to the number 23

2 divided by 3 is .666

December 23, 2012 is the day the Mayan civilization predicted that the world would end

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

The earth's axis is off by 23.5 degrees.

Adolf Hitler organized the NAZI's on January 23. On November 23 he tried to take over.

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

2/3 of the angels decided to stick it out in Heaven with God after Lucifer and the others fell

August 23, the day William Wallace was executed.

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

W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet. Its symbol has 3 points up and 2 points down. Washington, William, White, W. Bush, World War, Want, We, Winning...

July 23rd are the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years

There are 23 axioms to Euclid's Geometry.

230 people died on the airplane disaster TWA Flight 800.

There are 2,300 stones comprising the Great Pyramid.

There are 23 letters in the Latin alphabet.

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!).

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

Only 23 people allowed in a AOL chatroom.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sirius A has a luminosity of 23.5

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

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

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

The number of atoms of an element in one mole (cf. Atomic Weight) is 6.21x10²³.

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

The number 23, written in base 3, is 212 (2+1+2=5)

23 written to the base 4 is 113 (1+1+3=5).

23 written to the base 7 is 32 (3+2=5).

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

There is no known 23rd Chapter to Revelations.

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

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

biorhythm cycle is generally 23 days. One measures a circle beginning anywhere.

Tarot There is no 23rd card in the Major Arcana.
the 22 trumps, when arranged with the fool at the "beginning and end", actually form a cycle of 23.

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.

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

September 23 The Fall Equinox.

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!

Vanadium The symbol for the 23rd element is V (roman numeral 5).

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

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

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

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.

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

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.)

The number of joints in the human arm is 23.

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.)

Computers communicate in 2³ bits (bytes).