26May/06Off
Number nine. Number nine.
There are nine days left before I go a'riding. I need $195 more dollars, which, divided by nine, is
$21.67. Also, from Wikipedia:
- Nine is the highest single-digit number in the decimal system.
- In the NATO phonetic alphabet, the digit 9 is called "niner".
- Nine is the number of musicians in a nonet.
- Nine babies born into a single birth are called nonuplets, although not one baby born into a set of nonuplets has ever survived infancy.
- A novena lasts for nine days.
- Nine judges sit on the United States Supreme Court.
- There are nine members of The Fellowship of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings saga, to balance and combat the nine Nazgûl, or Ringwraiths.
- The ordinal adjective is nonary.
- In Greek mythology there are nine Muses.
- In Egyptian mythology, there are nine major gods and goddesses (see also Ennead).
- There are nine basic personality types represented on the enneagram.
- In astrology, Sagittarius is the 9th astrological sign of the Zodiac.
- Joel Garreau identified nine different "nations" of North America.
- Nine months is approximately the gestation period for humans.
- A standard work day of 9 to 5 begins at 9 a.m.
- Stanines are measured on a scale of 1 to 9.
- The name of the area called Kowloon in Hong Kong literally means: nine dragons.
- Someone dressed "to the nines" is dressed up as much as they can be.
- Number of Provinces in South Africa.
- There are 9 planets in the Solar System.
- Nine, as the highest single-digit number, symbolizes completeness in the Bahá'í Faith. A simple nine-pointed star is a Bahá'í symbol.
- Nine Lives Cat Food got its name from the legend that a cat has nine lives.
Perpetually anxious/simultaneously exhausted mom of a blended family of 7 kids & 2 pets. Writer about same. Wife to one amazingly patient husband. Drinker of wine. 




