1 9 0 0 : what's in a number?

glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
edited September 2007 in A Moving Train
So lately I’ve been given this amount that equates to one thousand nine hundred some considerable pondering. I’ve got no idea why though. i mean, we all know there is something in a name, but are there some mysterious no-void entity of meaning contained within any given number, especially 1900?
I just don't fucking know.
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"Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    It was the year after 1899 and before 1901.

    It may have been when mom's parents and my father's parents may have started knocking boots or at least courting which would down the road lead to my birth. So I have those six people and the countless men and women before them to thank for my DNA.

    It was also 1900 years after the birth of Christ. Funny how they didn't really countdown time until his birth and then start counting up from there.

    WWI was fourteen years away and the great depression twenty-nine.

    Freud publishes The Interpretation Of Dreams, and sleeping would never be the same again. Did you know that if you dream about eating a hotdog and you are male that you may have homosexual tendencies.

    Hurricanes were still blowing through the States as Galveston got hit. Could be proof of global warming back then.

    Stanley Cup champs were the Montreal Shamrocks. Along with hockey, Wimbledon was played, the Kentucky Derby got ran and Yale, yes Yale were the NCAA champs going 12-0.

    Sir Wilfrid Laurier was the PM of Canada. Who also graces our five dollar bill.

    Ah yeah 1900. I like to visit there when my time machine is in working order.
    You've changed your place in this world!
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