4) Solo and Skywalker break into Detention Block AA23 to rescue Princess Leia

5) Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the DNA of a child. and it is the 23rd chromosome that determines gender.

6) David Beckham, the 28-year-old midfielder, was handed the Real number 23 shirt by Madrid legend Alfredo di Stefano, the Argentine striker who made the club such a force in the 1950s and 1960s.

There may be a mathematical reason for his having the number 23: [Telegraph.co.uk] Beckham in his prime number, Excerpt: The key building blocks of Real Madrid's team are all prime numbers: Carlos, No 3; Zidane, No 5; Raul, No 7; Ronaldo, No 11. So giving Beckham the 23 shirt is a clear indication that Real's president, Florentino Pérez, is intending to build on Beckham.

7) February 23 1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.

8) Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is an historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945 by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

9) [Wiki] In Roman mythology, Terminus was the god of boundaries. The stones used to mark borders were sacred to him. On February 23, a festival called Terminalia was celebrated annually by the Romans in his honor. The stone boundary markers were drenched in sacrificial blood and placed on flowers to renew its protective powers.

10) Benjamin Harrison the 23rd President, was the only President to have the same man both precede and succeed him.

11) Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati (Cosmic Trigger) by Robert A. Wilson From Amazon.com by reviewer Robert Anderson, Excerpt: Wilson seems to raise every coincidence in his life to the spiritually significant level of "syncronicity". For example, several times during the book he mentions that it is a meaningful coincidence of great import that his daughter's first menstrual cycle came on the same day that Timothy Leary was arrested in Afghanistan?! But he never mentions WHY this coincidence is meaningful. Similarly, he is convinced that "23" is an important number in his life so any day, date, book, time, place, story, picture, conversation, etc. that includes the number 23 in any way, shape or form is taken to have some special "meaning". And because 2 + 3 = 5, the number 5 is treated likewise - as are the numbers 33,333, 666 and others.

12) ANNA NICOLE SMITH was planning to wed her partner/attorney on 23 February 2007

13) There's even a contest about the number 23.

This post was written at 2:22:07 PM on 2/22/07 Coincidence? I think not.

My Previous Posts on 666:
Mothers expect Damien on 06/06/06

The Lord Came Onto Noah - 666

01:02:03 04/05/06 Happened twice before

August 22 - End of the World -12th Imam - Muhammad al-Mahdi

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