On the Number 46

46 in Mathematics
1) The 23rd even number = 46
2) The 31st composite numbers = 46
3) The 6th centered triangular number = 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, 46
4) The 10th Wedderburn-Etherington number
They are an integer sequence named for
Ivor Malcolm Haddon Etherington & Joseph Wedderburn
that can be used to count certain kinds of binary trees.
First few numbers in the sequence are
0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 23, 46
5) The 5th nonagonal number = 0, 1, 9, 24, 46
6) Sum of the 11th & 16th composite numbers = 20 + 26 = 46
7) Sum of the 12th & 15th composite numbers = 21 + 25 = 46
8) Sum of the 13th & 14th composite numbers = 22 + 24 = 46
9) Sum of the 10th & 18th composite numbers = 18 + 28 = 46
10) Sum of the 9th & 19th composite numbers = 16 + 30 = 46
11) Sum of the 7th & 20th composite numbers = 14 + 32 = 46
12) Sum of the 6th & 21st composite numbers = 12 + 34 = 46
13) Sum of the 1st, 2nd, & 13th prime numbers = 2 + 3 + 41 = 46
14) Sum of the 1st, 4th, & 12th prime numbers = 2 + 7 + 37 = 46
15) Sum of the 8th prime & 3rd cube numbers = 19 + 27 = 46
16) Sum of 1st, 4th, 6th, 9th Fibonacci numbers = 1 + 3 + 8 + 34 = 46
(Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, 1170-1250)
17) Sum of the 1st, & 9th triangular numbers = 1 + 45 = 46
18) Sum of the 1st, 3rd & 6th square numbers = 1 + 9 + 36 = 46
19) Sum of the 2nd & 12th lucky numbers = 3 + 43 = 46
20) Sum of the 5th & 10th lucky numbers = 13 + 33 = 46
21) Sum of the 6th & 9th lucky numbers = 15 + 31 = 46
22) Sum of the 7th & 8th lucky numbers = 21 + 25 = 46
23) Sum of the 4th & 11th lucky numbers = 9 + 37 = 46
24) Square root of 46 = 6.782329983
25) Cube root of 46 = 3.583047871
26) ln 46 = 3.828641396 (natural log to the base e)
27) log 46 = 1.662757832 (logarithm to the base 10)
28) Sin 46o = 0.719
Cos 46o = 0.694
Tan 46o = 1.035
29) 1/46 expressed as a decimal = 0.021739
30) The 103rd & 104th digits of e = 46
e = 2.7182818284 5904523536 0287471352 6624977572 4709369995
        9574966967 6277240766 3035354759 4571382178 5251664274
        2746639193 2003059921 8174135966 2904357290 0334295260
(Note: The 99th-108th digits of e = 7427466391 is the first 10-digit prime in
consecutive digits of e. This is the answer to the Google Billboard question
that may lead to a job opportunity at Google.com, San Jose Mercury News, 7-10-2004)
31) The 19th & 20th digits of pi, π = 46
The 126th & 127th digits of pi, π = 46
The 183rd & 184th digits of pi, π = 46
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
   8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
   4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
   7245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643<67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
32) The 70th & 71st digits of phi, φ = 46
Phi or φ = 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 45868 34365 63811 77203 09179 80576
                      28621 35448 62270 52604 62818 90244 97072 07204 18939 11374
                      84754 08807 53868 91752 12663 38622 23536 93179 31800 60766
                      72635 4>333 89086 59593 95829 05638 32266 13199 28290 26788
1.61803398874989484820 is an irrational number,
also called the Golden Ratio (or Golden number).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) first called it the sectio aurea,
(Latin for the golden section) and related it to human anatomy.
Ratios may be found in the Pyramids of Giza & the Greek Parthenon.
33) Binary number for 46 = 101110
(Decimal & Binary Equivalence; Program for conversion)
34) ASCII value for 46 = ,
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
35) Hexadecimal number for 46 = 2E
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
36) Octal number for 46 = 056
(Octal #, Hexadecimal #, & ASCII Code Chart)
37) The Greek-based numeric prefix hexacontakaitri- means 46.
38) The hexacontakaitrigon is a polygon with 46 straight sides.
39) The hexacontakaitrihedron is a solid polyhedron with 46 planar faces.
40) The Latin Quadraginta sex means 46.
41) The Latin-based numeric prefix quadrage- means 40.
A person who is from 40 to 49 years old is a quadragenarian.
42) The Roman numeral for 46 is XLVI.
43) Sì Shí Lu (4, 10, 6) is the Chinese ideograph for 46.
44) is the Babylonian number for 46
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers,
Penguin Books, New York (1987), pp. 326-327
45) 46 is expressed in Hebrew as Mem Vav
Hebrew alphabet has numerical equivalence.
In Hebrew Gematria 46 means "young bird, young dove, eaglet".
46) 46 in different languages:
Dutch: zesenveertig, French: quarante-six, German: sechsundvierzig, Hungarian: negyvenhat,
Italian: quarantasei, Spanish: cuarentay seis, Swedish: fyrtiosex, Turkish: kirk alti

46 in Science & Technology
47) Atomic Number of Palladium (Pd) = 46 (46 protons & 46 electrons); Atomic weight = 106.42
It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist
William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after
the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired by her when she slew Pallas. half the supply
of palladium is used in catalytic converters, which convert as much as 90% of the harmful gases
in automobile exhaust. Palladium is also used in electronics, dentistry, medicine, hydrogen
purification, chemical applications, groundwater treatment, and jewelry. Palladium is a key
component of fuel cells, in which hydrogen & oxygen react to produce electricity, heat, & water.
48) Inorganic compounds with molecular weight = 46:
Nitrogen dioxide, 14NO2, MW = 46.0019
Nitrous oxide, 15N2O, MW = 45.9996
Lithium sodium oxide, LiNaO, MW = 45.930
Magnesium diboride, B2Mg, MW = 45.927
49) Organic compounds with molecular weight = 46:
Thioformaldehyde, CH2S, MW = 46.092
Phosphethene, CH3P, MW = 46.0083
Formic acid, CH3O2, MW = 46.0254
50) No compounds found with boiling point = ±46oC:
51) No compounds found with melting point = ±46oC:

52) 46th amino acid in the 141-residue alpha-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Phenylalanine (F)
46th amino acid in the 146-residue beta-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Phenylalanine (F)
Single-Letter Amino Acid Code
Alpha-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VLSPADKTNVKAAWGKVGAHAGEYGAEALERMFLSFPTTKTYFPFDLSH
GSAQVKGHGKKVADALTNAVAHVDDMPNALSALSDLHAHKLRVDPVNFKL
LSHCLLVTLAAHLPAEFTPAVHASLDKFLASVSTVLTSKYR
Beta-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VHLTPEEKSAVTALWGKVNVDEVGGEALGRLLVVYPWTQRFFESFGDLST
PDAVMGNPKVKAHGKKVLGAFSDGLAHLDNLKGTFATLSELHCDKLHVDP
ENFRLLGNVLVCVLAHHFGKEFTPPVQAAYQKVVAGVANALAHKYH
53) The 46th amino acid in the 153-residue sequence of sperm whale myoglobin
is Phenylalanine (F). It is next to Arginine-45 & Lysine-47.
Phenylalanine-46 is labelled CD4 on outside of the molecule.
[A.B. Edmundson, Nature 205, 883-887 (1965)]
Richard E. Dickerson & Irving Geis, Structure and Action of Proteins (1969), pp. 48, 52
54) The 46th amino acid in the 124-residue enzyme Bovine Ribonuclease
is Valine (V). It is next to Threonine-45 and Valine-47.
[C. H. W. Hirs, S. Moore, and W. H. Stein, J. Biol. Chem. 238, 228 (1963)]
55) "Functional tuning of photoactive yellow protein by active site residue 46"
Andrew F Philip, Kaury T Eisenman, George A Papadantonakis, Wouter D Hoff
Biohemistry, Vol. 47, 13800-13810 (2008)
56) "Rb-associated protein 46 (RbAp46) suppresses the tumorigenicity
of adenovirus-transformed human embryonic kidney 293 cells",
L S Guan, G C Li, C C Chen, L Q Liu, Z Y Wang
Int. J. Cancer, Vol. 93, 333-338 (2001)
57) Messier M46 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation
of Puppis. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1771. Dreyer
described it as "very bright, very rich, very large." It is about
5,000 light-years away. There are an estimated 500 stars in the
cluster with a combined mass of 453 M☉, and it is thought
to be a mid-range estimate of 251.2 million years old.
58) NGC 46 occasionally referred to as PGC 5067596, is an F8 star located approximately 962 light-years
from the Solar System in the constellation Pisces. It was first discovered on October 22, 1852 by Irish
astronomer Edward Joshua Cooper, who incorrectly identified it as a nebula (Digital Sky Survey Image)
59) Asteroid 46 Hestia is a large, dark main-belt asteroid. It is also the primary body of the Hestia clump,
a group of asteroids with similar orbits. Hestia was discovered by N. R. Pogson on August 16, 1857,
at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. Pogson awarded the honour of naming it to William Henry Smyth,
the previous owner of the telescope used for the discovery. Smyth chose to name it after Hestia,
Greek goddess of the hearth. It has a mass of 3.5 x 1018 kg. It has a period of 4.01 years
(1465.958 days) with dimension of 124.1 km.
60) Corvair XB-46 Bomber was a product of the flurry of aircraft design-build-
and-fly activity that gripped the American aviation industry in the second
half of the 1940's. While most never saw the production line, all manner of
new and innovative aircraft design concepts were built and flown by
aircraft companies. The XB-46 aircraft departed on its first flight from Convair's Lindbergh Field in San Diego on Wednesday, 02 April 1947.
Pilot Sam Shannon headed north to Muroc Army Air Field where he
safely landed an hour and a half later following an uneventful flight.
Made 64 flights & spent 127 hours in the air. Project cancelled (Aug. 1947).
Photo Source: XB-46 Bomber (convair-whiteeagleaerospace);
61) Curtiss C-46 Commando is a twin-engine transport aircraft derived from
the Curtiss CW-20 pressurised high-altitude airliner design. Early press
reports used the name "Condor III" but the Commando name was in use
by early 1942 in company publicity. It was used as a military transport
during World War II by the United States Army Air Forces and also the
U.S. Navy/Marine Corps, which called it R5C. The C-46 served in a
similar role to its Douglas-built counterpart, the C-47 Skytrain, but it
was not as extensively produced as the latter. C-46 was used by Chiang
Kai-Shek's troops battling Mao's Communists in China (1946-1949).
3,181 were built (1940-1945). Photo Source: Curtis-46 (flightjournal)
62) K-46 Tanker The Boeing-built KC-46 tanker is a military version of the
767 commercial aircraft. It is intended to replace the oldest of the U.S.
Air Force's KC-135 Stratotanker fleet— some of which are over 50 years
old. The KC-46A will be able to refuel any fixed-wing receiver capable
aircraft on any mission. USAF Propulsion: 2x Pratt & Whitney 4062
engines Speed: 530 mph Range: 6,385 nm Maximum Cargo Capacity:
65,000 pounds (29,484 kilograms) Crew: 15 permanent seats for
aircrew, including aeromedical evacuation aircrew Passengers: 58.
The KC-46A can carry up to 18 463L cargo pallets
Photo Source: K-46 Tanker (military.com)
63) K-46 Pegasus is an American military aerial refueling and strategic military
transport aircraft developed by Boeing from its 767 jet airliner. In February 2011, the tanker was selected by the United States Air Force (USAF) as the winner in the KC-X tanker competition to replace older Boeing KC-135
Stratotankers. First aircraft was delivered to the Air Force in January 2019.
The Air Force intends to procure 179 Pegasus aircraft by 2027. 56 were produced from 2013 to present. Primary users are United States Air Force
and Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Israel has purchased four KC-46A aircraft from the company to be delivered in 2025. Italy wants to purchase six KC-46.s
Photo Source: K-46 Pegasus (commons.wikimedia.org)
64) F-46 Greenhalgh, was originally F88 HMS Broadsword. Built by Yarrow,
she was aid down 7th February 1975 & completed by January 24, 1979,
she was commissioned on May 3rd the same year. HMS Broadsword was instrumental in the coordination of the rescue operation after the Fastnet
Yacht Race disaster in 1980. During the Falklands conflict both HMS Broadsword & HMS Coventry were attacked by the Argentinean airforce.
The Broadsword was lucky, having a bomb go through the flight deck which did not explode, the Coventry was not so lucky needing Broadsword to rescue 170 of her crew. Broadsword successfully shot down 4 enemy aircraft during the Falklands conflict. HMS Broadsword was sold to Brazil in 1995 who named her F46 Greenhalgh.
Photo Source: F-46Frigate (pinterest.com)
65) USS S-46 (SS-157) was a third-group (S-42) S-class submarine of the United States Navy. S-46's keel was laid down on 23 February 1921 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.
She was launched on 11 September 1923, sponsored by Miss Grace Roosevelt,
and commissioned on 5 June 1925 Length: 225 ft 3 in; Beam: 20 ft 8 in; Draft:
16 ft; Speed: 14.5 knots (16.7 mph); Complement: 42 officers and men.
S-46 was awarded one battle star for her World War II service.
Photo Source: SS-46 Submarine (commnavsource.org)
66) T-46 was a Soviet fast light tank developed in 1935, as an improvement
to the earlier T-26. The design was later discarded by the government,
after the prototypes were built and tested. The project ended up being
too expensive and a poor design. The thin armor, bulky hull and small
main gun put the crew in great danger, which made the tank unsuitable
for use in combat. Soviet Union cancel the project, and rather create the
T-26S and later T-46S, as the improved, mass-production capable tanks.
Mass: 39 tons; Length: 18 ft 1 in.; Width: 7 ft 7.7 in; Height: 7 ft 6 in;
Crew: 3; Speed 60 km/hr. Photo Source: T-46 Russian Tank (commons.wikimedia.org).
67) New South Wales 46 class locomotive was a class of mainline electric locomotive built by Metropolitan-Vickers and its partner Beyer, Peacock
and Company in England for the New South Wales railways department.
The 40 members of the 46 class were the most powerful locomotives in Australia for many years, with a one-hour rating of 3,780 horsepower
(2,820 kW) and ability to deliver more for short periods. They proved
to be very reliable & were generally considered superior to the newer &
more powerful Comeng 85 class & 86 class locomotives. Total produced:
40 (!956-1958); Length: 51 ft 2 in; Width: 9 ft 7 in; Height: 14 ft. 6 in; Loco weight: 112 long tons; Maximum speed: 70 mph.
Photo Source: NSW 46 Locomotive (railroadpictures.de).
68) Stem Locomotive 46.03: The first train for this unique steam locomotive
after restoration. The engine was build in 1931 in Poland specially for
Bulgarian railways. And after 48 years of silence, the Big Bear (nickname
of these locomotives, given by the railway workers in the past) is back
to life. In the previous day the locomotive successfully complete the
speed test, and on May 26 was held the load test with 320 t train on
the heavy ascent to Vakarel station. All type of trials were completed
successfully, so now the locomotive is ready for trips!
Photo Source: British Rail Class 43 (HST) (commons.wikimedia.org)
69) Engine 46 of Chicago Fire Department is located at 3027 E. 93rd St., Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Fire Department is the 2nd largest municipal fire department in the U.S. after the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). It is also one of the oldest major organized fire departments in the nation. It was established on August 2, 1858, with 5143 employees. The Chicago Fire Department receives over 800,000 emergency calls annually. In 1967, Chicago Fire Dept. was badly in need of new engines. They looked to Ward LaFrance for assistance in acquiring what they had available. Chicago received four engines. One was assigned to Engine 42 (D-327) with a 1,000-GPM pump
and 500 gallons of water. (this would later be re-assigned to Engine 46).
Photo source: Fire Engine 46 chicagoareafire.com)
70) Nascar 46: Driver Anthony Kumpen drove a Chevy Camaro #46 NASCAR.
The No. 46 team debut was at the season opener at Daytona International Speedway in 2016, with Anthony Kumpen behind the wheel with sponsorship Nexteer Automotive and Leaseplan. The second race for the No. 46 was the 2016 Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol with Brandon Gdovic behind the wheel with sponsorship Pitt Ohio Express. He started 27th and finished 18th. In 2017, Kumpen returned to the No. 46 at Daytona and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Where he finished 22nd and 18th. Quin Houff made its Xfinity Series debut in the No. 46 at Bristol, with an impressive 15th-place finish.
Photo source: Nascar 46 (>pubtradingpaints.com)
71) 1929 Bugatti Type 46 Cabriolet: Bridging the gap between the opulent Royale and 3-litre Type 44, the Type 46 was Bugatti's standard luxury model. It was first launched at the 1929 Paris Motor Show. A large, one piece engine was main feature of Type 46. Its casting contained everything from combustion chambers down to main crankshaft bearings, including cylinder walls. Setup eliminated need for head studs & therefore engine could be very narrow & perfectly rectangular. Flywheel was flexibly mounted to reduce vibrations in cabin. A 5-jet Smith-Bariquand carburetor was fitted. The luxurious Type 46 was a successful project that sold over 460 units. (Source: pinterest.com)
72) Human cells contain 46 chromosomes
which are in pairs. Sex cells (sperm and ova) contain only 23 chromosomes. The 23 chromosomes comprise one from each pair. Of the 23 pairs of chromosomes present is each human cell, one pair is the sex chromosomes. These determine the sex of the individual. Male have XY, female have XX.
So the presence of a Y chromosome results in male features developing.
Each chromosome contains one very long molecule of DNA. The DNA molecule carries a code that instructs the cell about which kind of
proteins it should make. Each chromosome carries instructions for
making many different proteins.
(Source: gbiologyy.blogspot)

46 in Mythology & History
73) Angel Number 46 is a reminder from the angels that they will provide you with
all the support & encouragement required for attaining your objectives in life.
You should only request for assistance & direction from these divine forces.
Angel Number 46 symbolism is a suggestion from the spirit guides that if
you want to realize your desires in life, you should have a confident outlook.
This number represents inner wisdom & simplicity. It is required of you to
stay humble and simple. Do not let pride be the source of your downfall.
The inner wisdom you possess enables you to win at life.
74) Paper 46 of The Urantia Book (1924) is titled "he Local System Headquarters".
Topics covered include Physical Aspects of Jerusem, Physical Features of Jerusem,
The Jerusem Broadcasts, Residential and Administrative Areas, The Jerusem Circles,
Executive-Administrative Squares, Rectangles— The Spornagia, The Jerusem Triangles.
75) The 46th day of the year = February 15
[Italian physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), born February 15, 1564;
British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), born February 15, 1748;
American social reformer Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), born February 15, 1820;
American lawyer & Nobel laureate Elihu Root (1845-1937), born February 15, 1845;
British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), born February 15, 1861;
Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), born February 15, 1874;
American actor Cesar Romero, (1907-1994), born February 15, 1907;
American actress Claire Bloom, born February 15, 1931;
American author Douglas Hofstadter, born February 15, 1945]
76) 46 B.C.—
• Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC) returns in triumph to Rome with prisoners
    who include Vercingetorix, chief of Arverni tribe, who is executed.
• Julius Caesar grants Roman citizenship to Greek physicians
    whose status has until now been that of slave or freedman.
— James Trager, The People's Chronology, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1979, p. 32
77) 46 A.D.—
• Paul the Apostle (5 AD-65 AD) journeys to Cyprus and Galatea
    with the Cypriot Barnabas and with Mark, a young cousin of Barnabas.
— James Trager, The People's Chronology, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1979, p. 37
78) Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the U.S.
bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north,
Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New Mexico
on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. The name Oklahoma
comes from Choctaw language phrase okla, 'people', and humma,
translated as 'red'. Oklahoma is nation's third-largest producer
of natural gas, and its fifth-largest producer of crude oil.
Its area is 69,898 square miles (20th largest of 50 states),
with population of 3,986,639 (2021), 28th in rank among 50 states.
79) Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States (2021-current).
Born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A member of
the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from
2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, and represented
Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009. Biden and his
running mate, Kamala Harris, defeated Donald Trump and
Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election. On Jan. 20, 2021,
he became the oldest president in U.S. history and first to have
a female vice president. As president, Biden has addressed the
COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He responded
to 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on
Russia & authorizing foreign aid & weapons shipments to Ukraine.
Photo Source: Joe Biden (commons.wikimedia.org)
80 At Age 46:
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) was an enlightened Italian poet. He starts his work on
the Divine Comedy (1308) at age 43. He drops a lesser project in order to concentrate
on this great work, finished when he died (1321) at age 56. From Dante Chronology:
at age 46 (1311)— March 31: Dante writes Epistola VI to the Florentines, condemning
their opposition to Henry VII's imperial quest. April 17: Dante writes Epistola VII to
Henry VII, rebuking his delay in crushing Florentine opposition to his rule. Since
I regard Dante to be a spiritual mentor, 409 pages on my WisdomPortal.com site
are devoted to him. My essay "Dante's 55 & The Platonic Lambda" for Professor
Freccero's Paradiso class at Stanford (Spring 2001) hints at Dante's enlightenment.
Other interesting pages: Dante's Cosmic Vision in Paradise; Dante's Paradiso VI:
Romeo of Villeneuve; "Paolo & Francesca" art inspired by Dante; "Dante & Marilyn".
Photo Source: Mexico C308 Dante (colnect.com) (issued 11-23-1965)

Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was a Wallonian merchant from Tournai, in present-day
Belgium. He was the 3rd Director of the Dutch North American colony of New
Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. Founded
the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware Peninsula in 1638. Minuit is
generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island for the
Dutch East India Company from the Lenape Indians. Manhattan later became
the site of the Dutch city of New Amsterdam, and the borough of Manhattan
of modern-day New York City. A common account states that Minuit purchased
Manhattan for $24 worth of trinkets. 1909 drawing of The Purchase of Manhattan
Island with Minuit presiding. Photo Source: Peter Minuit (commons.wikimedia.org)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American polymath who was active as
a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, forger and
political philosopher. Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was
one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S., a drafter & signer of U.S. Declaration
of Independence, and first U.S. Postmaster General. Franklin published proposal
for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm.
On June 15, 1752, at age 46, Franklin conducted his well-known kite experiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud. Described the experiment
in his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, on October 19, 1752, without mentioning
that he himself had performed it. Photo Source: Benjamin Franklin (commons.wikimedia.org)

Catherine the Great (1729-1796) was reigning empress of Russia (1762-1796).
She came to power following overthrow of her husband, Peter III. Under her
long reign, inspired by Enlightenment ideas, Russia experienced a renaissance
of culture & sciences, which led to founding of many new cities, universities,
& theatres; along with immigration from rest of Europe, & recognition of
Russia as one of great powers of Europe. In 1776 at age 46, she had fifteen
lovers between now until her death at 67. These are always men between
22-25, they are obtained by her ex-lover Prince Potemkin (age 37). These
young army officers perform only a physical function, while Potemkin &
her maintain a lifelong friendship. Photo Source: Catherine the Great (en.wikipedia.org)

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), was a British physician and scientist who pioneered
the concept of vaccines, and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of
the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the
title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he
described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. In the West, Jenner is
often called "father of immunology"", and his work is said to have saved "more lives
than any other man". In Jenner's time, smallpox killed 10% of global population,
with number as high as 20% in towns and cities where infection spread more easily.
In 1821, appointed physician to King George IV, Photo Source: Edward Jenner (en.wikipedia.org)

Duke of Wellington aka Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier
and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of
19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom,
as a member of Tory party from 1828 to 1830. He is among the commanders
who won and ended the Napoleonic Wars when the Seventh Coalition defeated
Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. During the Hundred Days in 1815,
he commanded the allied army which, together with a Prussian Army under
Field Marshal Gebhard von Blücher, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo at age 46.
Wellington's battle record is exemplary; he participated in some 60 battles
during the course of his military career. Photo: Duke of Wellington (wordsworth.org.uk)

King Mongkut (1804-1868) was the fourth monarch of Siam (Thailand) under
the House of Chakri, titled Rama IV. At age 46, he ruled from 1851 to 1868.
He had been a Buddhist monk under a vow of celibacy. Once kingship, he
fathered 82 royal children with 27 mothers. Outside Thailand, Mongkut is
best known as king in 1956 film The King and I (Yul Brynner & Deborah Kerr).
based on Anna Leonowens' years at his court, from 1862 to 1867, Siam first
felt the pressure of Western expansionism during Mongkut's reign. Mongkut
embraced Western innovations & initiated the modernization of his country,
both in technology & culture— earning him nickname "the Father of Science
& Technology" in Siam. Photo Source: King Mongkut (en.wikipedia.org)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created
some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many
as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented
popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had
recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read
today At age 46, he moves to a country house, Gads House (1858). He leaves his
wife, Catherine Thomson Hogarth, of 20 years, and starts on A Tale of Two Cities.
It is regularly cited as one of the best-selling novels of all time. At age 46, Dickens
starts a new career, of public readings of his books. His first reading tour, lasting
from April 1858 to February 1859, consisted of 129 appearances in 49 towns
throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. These one-night stands bring in
vast profits, but contribute to his death at 58 (1870). Photo: Dickens (wikimedia.org)

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator, author and composer.
She wrote children's stories, notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903), and composed collections of children's songs. She started the first free kindergarten
in San Francisco in 1878 (Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s,
she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her
adult runs of any theatre piece up to that time. Wiggin was also a songwriter & composer.
For "Kindergarten Chimes" (1885) and other collections for children, she wrote some of the lyrics, music, and arrangements. For "Nine Love Songs and a Carol" (1896), she composed
all of the music. Many of Kate Douglas Wiggin's novels were made into movies. Perhaps
the most famous film adaptation of her books is the 1938 film, which stars Shirley Temple.
Photo Source: Kate Douglas Wiggin (commons.wikimedia.org)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen
as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term.
He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. His solo piano pieces La Fille aux cheveux de lin and La Cathédrale
engloutie (1909) were composed at age 46. His success in London was
consolidated in April 1909, when he conducted Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
and the Nocturnes at the Queen's Hall; in May he was present at the first London
production of Pelléas et Mélisande, at Covent Garden. His orchestral composition
La mer was written in 1903 at age 40. Children's Corner (1908), a six-movement
suite for solo piano was written in 1908 at age 45. Photo: Debussy (n.wikipedia.org)

Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) was an American film director and musical choreographer.
Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex
geometric patterns. Berkeley's works used large numbers of showgirls and props as
fantasy elements in kaleidoscopic on-screen performances. His Gold Diggers in Paris
(1938) was filmed at age 43. Other films he directed & choreographed include
42nd Street (1933) with Ruby Keeler, Footlight Parade (1933) with James Cagney,
including "By the Waterfall", Hollywood Hotel (1937) with Dick Powell, Ziegfeld Girl
(1941) at age 46 with James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner,
For Me and My Gal (1942) with Gene Kelly & Judy Garland, Take Me Out to the Ball
Game (1949) with Frank Sinatra. Photo Source: Busby Berkeley (playbill.com)

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer,
theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work
features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled
with black comedy and nonsense. His work became increasingly minimalist
as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic & linguistic experimentation,
with techniques of repetition & self-reference. He is considered one of the last
modernist writers, & one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the
Theatre of the Absurd. His Waiting for Godot (Paris, 1953) was produced at
age 46. Beckett was awarded 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing,
which— in new forms for the novel & drama— in the destitution of modern
man acquires its elevation." Photo Source: Samuel Beckett en.wikipedia.org)

Ed Sullivan (1901-1974) was an American television personality, impresario,
sports & entertainment reporter, & syndicated columnist for New York Daily News
and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He was the creator and host
of television variety program The Toast of the Town, which in 1955 was renamed
The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-
running variety show in US broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure,
the last great American TV show," said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one
of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories." In 1956, Sullivan signed Elvis
Presley for three appearances. The Beatles initial Sullivan show appearance
on February 9, 1964, was the most-watched program in TV history to that point.
Photo Source: Ed Sullivan (fineartamerica.com)

Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995) was an Argentine racing car driver.
He dominated the first decade of Formula One racing, winning the
World Championship of Drivers five times— a record that stood for
46 years until beaten by Michael Schumacher— with four different
teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, and Maserati). He holds
the highest winning percentage in Formula One at 46.15%, winning
24 of 52 Formula One races he entered. Fangio is the only Argentine
driver to have won the Argentine Grand Prix, which he won four
times in his career, more than any other driver. In 1957, at age 46,
Fangio's performance is often regarded as one of the greatest drive in
Formula One history, and it was also Fangio's final victory in the sport.
Photo: Juan Manuel Fangio (en.wikipedia.org)

Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular
film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute
named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. He
won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Atticus Finch
in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962), at age 46, an adaptation of the modern classic
of the same name which revolved around racial inequality, for which he received
universal acclaim. Other notable films include Roman Holiday (1953), Moby Dick
(1956), Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962). Throughout his career, he often
portrayed protagonists with "fiber" within a moral setting . President Johnson honored
Peck with Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969). Photo Source: Gregory Peck (en.wikipedia.org)

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was an American politician who served as the
35th U.S. President from January 1961 until his assassination on 11-22-1963,
at age 46 in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. After his death, it is revealed that
he has often been ill and that "at least on-half of the days that he spent on this
earth were days of intense physical suffering" accordinding to Robert Kennedy.
This ill-health has led the president to say that he never expectd to live beyond
45. Kennedy became the youngest person elected to the presidency (1960)
at age 43, though Theodore Roosevelt was a year younger at 42 when he
assumed the office after William McKinley's assassination (1901).
Photo Source: John F. Kennedy (commons.wikimedia.org)

Katharine Graham (1917-2001) was an American newspaper publisher.
She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, at age 46 from
1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on
the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of
President Richard Nixon. She was the first 20th century female
publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir,
Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1998.
It received widespread critical acclaim for its candour in dealing
with her husband's mental illness and the challenges she faced
in a male-dominated working environment.
Photo Source: Katharine Graham (en.wikipedia.org)

Vince Lombardi (1923-1970) was an American football coach and
executive in the National Football League. Lombardi is considered
by many to be the greatest coach in football history, & he is recognized as
one of the greatest coaches & leaders in the history of all American sports.
He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers, at age 46
(1959-1967), where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL
Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two
Super Bowls at the conclusion of the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons.
Career NFL record: 105-35-6). Photo Source: Vince Lombardi (iponsociety.org)

Shirley Temple (1928-2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer,
and diplomat who was Hollywood's number one box-office draw as
a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States
ambassador to Ghana (1974-76) at age 46 and Czechoslovakia, and
also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States. My favorite
Shirley Temple movie is "Little Miss Broadway" (1939), age 11,
tap dancing with George Murphy, and singing she loves him.
She was delegate to the 24th United Nations General Assembly
(Sept.-Dec. 1969). Dad sat opposite her at U.N.'s Security Council,
& recounted their meetings when she signed her book Child Star
(!988) at Stanford's Book Inc. Photo Source: Shirley Temple (en.wikipedia.org)

[Sources: Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), pp. 328-333; and Wikipedia Web Links.]

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a
crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical
music and is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time. During his
life, he composed 9 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, one violin concerto, 32 piano
sonatas, 16 string quartets, 2 masses, and opera Fidelio. In 1816, at age 46, Beethoven
composed Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, dedicated to the pianist Baroness
Dorothea Ertmann. Composed Song Cycle, Op. 98, An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant
beloved) in April 1816. Have 120 pages honoring Beethoven on my web site—
Music Quotes, Eroica Symphony #3, 5th Symphony, Beethoven's Religious Beliefs,
Schulz's Beethoven. Image: Beethoven (1815) by Joseph Willibrord Mähler (commons.wikimedia.org)

Harold A. Scheraga (Oct. 18, 1921- Aug. 1, 2020), was American physical chemist of proteins
& macromolecules, Cornell University Todd Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, was still active
at age 98 (2020), doing both experimental & theoretical research on protein structure folding. Scheraga was an active editorial & advisory board member of nine scientific journals. In 2005, he received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Gdansk. "My 65 years in protein chemistry" [Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 48, 117-177 (May 2015)] published at age 94. "A Conversation with Harold A. Scheraga" is an Oral History Project of Cornell's Department of Chemistry with extended interviews with senior faculty members. Scheraga shares his life's journey, professional interests and reflections about his department and its nurturing environment. (Web). Scheraga's book Protein Structure was published by Academic Press (1961) at age 39. He had 20 publications in 1967 at age 46. Scheraga lists 1337 publicatios (1948-2018) in his 70 years of protein structural research. He was Chairman of Cornell's Chemistry Dept. (1960-1967), when I chose him as my Ph.D. advisor in physical chemistry & mentor (1963-1970), where 40 scientists worked in his research laboratory

46 in Geography
81) In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees (marked with o). The equator has a latitude of 0o. The North Pole has a latitude of 90o north (written 90o N or +90o). The South Pole has a latitude of 90o south (written 90o S or -90o).
82) Cities located at 46o west longitude:
São Paulo, Brazil: 46o 31' W longitude & 23o 31' S latitude
Ambovombe, Madagascar: 46o 08' E longitude & 25o 18' S latitude
83) Cities located at 46o north latitude:
Presque, Maine, USA: 46o 40' N latitude & 68o 0' W longitude
Fargo, North Dakota, USA: 46o 52' N latitude & 96o 47' W longitude
Odessa, Ukraine: 46o27 N latitude & 30o 21' E longitude
84) 46 is used as the country code for telephones in Sweden.
85) European Route E46 forms part of
the International E-road network.
Route begins in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin,
France, and ends in Liège, Belgium.
It is 753 km (468 miles) long.
86) U.S. Route 46 is an east-west U.S. Highway completely within the state
of New Jersey, running for 75.34 miles, making it the shortest signed, non-spur
U.S. Highway. The west end is at an interchange with Interstate 80 (I-80) and
Route 94 in Columbia, Warren County, on the Delaware River. The east end is in
the middle of the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River in Fort Lee,
Bergen County, while the route is concurrent with I-95 and US 1-9.
87) California State Route 46 is an east-west state highway in the U.S. state
of California. It is a major crossing of the Coast Ranges and it is the southernmost
crossing of Diablo Range, connecting SR 1 on Central Coast near Cambria & US 101
in Paso Robles with SR 99 at Famoso in San Joaquin Valley. It is 110.696 miles long.
Road that is now SR 46 was built & improved during 1920s & fully paved by 1930.
Originally designated as U.S. Route 466; eastern portion of the route became SR 46.
88) Louisiana Highway 46 is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Orleans and
St. Bernard Parishes. It runs in a west to east direction for a total length of 29.5 miles.
It is demarcated as Elysian Fields Avenue & St. Claude Avenue in the city of New Orleans
and as St. Bernard Highway, Bayou Road, East Judge Perez Drive, Florissant Highway and
Yscloskey Highway in St. Bernard Parish. The highway is recognized by the U.S. Department
of Transportation as San Bernardo Scenic Byway.
89) King's Highway 46 was a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian
province of Ontario that connected Highway 7 with Highway 48 in Victoria
County. The route existed between 1937 and 1997, after which it was
decommissioned and transferred to the county. In 2001, Victoria County
amalgamated into the city of Kawartha Lakes, & the road became known
as Kawartha Lakes Road 46. It is 16.0 miles (25.7 kilometres) long,
passing through the villages of Woodville, Argyle and Bolsover.
90) Japan National Route 46 is a national highway of Japan that connects capital cities
of Iwate Prefecture & Akita Prefecture, Morioka and Akita. It has a total length of
121.4 kilometers (75.4 miles). National Route 46 was originally designated on
18 May 1953 as National Route 105, & this was redesignated as National Route 46
when the route was promoted to a primary national highway. The highway was
completed in Dec. 1975, & road over Ou Mountains was completed in Nov. 1977.
91) New Zeaand State Highway 46 is a New Zealand state highway in the central
North Island. For its entire length SH 46 shares the name Lake Rotoaira Road.
It begins at Rangipo from SH 1 and travels west to meet SH 47. This route is
commonly used by holidaymakers travelling to the Whakapapa skifield and the
Tongariro Crossing. It also forms part of a western bypass of the Desert Road
when it can close due to snow. Length: 19.1 km (11.9 miles).
92) National Highway 46 (NH 46) is a primary National Highway in India.
This highway is in the state of Madhya Pradesh, running from Gwalior
to Betul. This national highway is 634 km (394 mi)es long. Before
renumbering of national highways, NH-46 was variously numbered
as old national highways 3, 12 & 69. NH46 connects Gwalior, Shivpuri,
Guna, Biaora, Bhopal, Obedullaganj, Hoshangabad and terminates at
Betul in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
93) 46-story Apartment Tower (222 N. Stetson Ave, Chicago) will be built by
an affiliate of Chicago-based CA Ventures. Building the 639-unit tower
will begin in the first quarter of 2020 near Millennium Park. The project
also will include 18,250 square feet of retail space & lower-level Pedway
access. The 44,000-square-foot site is nestled alongside the Aon Center
& multibuilding Illinois Center, Prudential Plaza & Lakeshore East complexes.
Vacant parcel is below street level on northwest corner of Stetson & Lake Street.
Since this news appeared by Ryan Ori in Chicago Tribune on Dec. 20, 2019,
a 46 story Wolf Point West appeared at 343 W. Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago, IL.
Photo Source: Apartment Tower (chicagotribune.com)
94) Hope Point Tower is a 46-story building, would be Rhode Island's tallest. Jason Fane
wants to build a residential tower up to 600 feet tall on Parcel 42 of the old 195 land,
along Dyer Street overlooking a planned park. It would be more than four times higher
than the 130-foot maximum currently allowed there. The Superman building is around
420 feet tall. "The Hope Point Tower would be unique and an icon of Providence,"
Fane said. He described the new proposal as "a fabulous design, right on the forefront,
and it's aesthetic, it's sculptural, it's sensuous— people will love it."
Photo Source: Hope Point Tower (wpri.com)
95) Highpoint Building (also 80 Newington Butts, and previously referred to as 360 London)
is a 142-metre, 46-storey, 458-apartment residential tower in Elephant and Castle in the
London Borough of Southwark in London on the site of the London Park Hotel. It was
the tallest build-to-rent development in the country at the time of construction, and one
of London's tallest residential buildings. On completion in 2018, 343 one- and two-bedroom apartments were made available for rent to private tenants. Building features a 24/7 gym,
and a "sky lounge" on the 45th floor, with a bar, kitchen and co-working space, accessible
by residents only. Photo Source: Highpoint Building (en.wikipedia.org)
96) Pinnacle International, the Canadian residential developer, doesn't have to hype
the name of its latest project in downtown San Diego. At 46 stories, Pinnacle on
the Park is the tallest apartment building downtown. And the 1,834-square-foot
penthouses (plus 1,100-square-foot, second-floor decks) go for $10,000 per month.
The 484-unit tower with yellow highlights cost more than $150 million, the developer
said, & a twin tower immediately north may open in 2019, its highlights painted red.
Delayed by the recession, it took 10 years to complete.
Photo Source: Pinnacle International (sandiegouniontribune.com)
97) Italy Building is a 168 metre tall 46 story skyscraper
in São Paulo, Brazil, built from 1956 to 1965. It hosts
the Circolo Italiano foundation and Terraço Italia
restaurant in its 44th floor. It also has a rooftop
observation deck, open for tourists. Edifício Itália
was designed by German-Brazilian architect
Franz Heep. Photo Source: Italy Building (flickr.com)
98) East 46th Street, New York City
1st Ave: United Nations Headquarters; 2nd Ave: 345 E. 46th:Trilateral Commission;
3rd Ave: 733 3rd Ave: National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Lexington Ave: 140 E. 46th:
The Guiford Rental Apartments, Park Ave: 250 Park Ave: The Postum Building;
Madison Ave: 383 Madison Ave: Bear Stearns World Headquarters (after their collapse
in 2008, sold to JPMorgan Chase); Madison & 46th St.: Original Ritz-Carlton Hotel (built 1910, closed 1951, torn down 1957) Photo Source: East 46th Street Sign NYC (hotos.zillowstatic.com)
99) West 46th Street, New York City
Hudson River: U.S.S. Intrepid, 12th Ave: Pacha (618 W 46th St.) chain of dance clubs;
11th Ave: Landmark Tavern (626 West 46th St) Irish restaurant since 1868;
10th Ave: Piano Factory (454 W. 46th St.) made piano innards (1888-1979);
9th Ave: Barbetta (321 W. 46th) Italian Restaurant since1906;
8th Ave: Paramount Hotel (235 W. 46th) built 1928, makover 1980sby Philippe Starck;
Times Square: Duffy Square built 1937 in honor of Francis P. Duffy; 7th Ave: I. Miller Building (1552 Broadway,
W. 46th St.) built 1926, with statues of actresses Ethel Barrymore, Marilyn Miller, Mary Pickford, & Rosa Ponselle; 6th Ave: 29 W 46th St, built in 1920, 6 stories & 5 units; Irving Berlin lived in this building from 1922-1930,
where he wrote "Puttin' on the Ritz" among others. Photo: West 46th Street, NYC (apartments.com/)
100)
46th Street Subway Station is a local station on the IND
Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway.
Located at the intersection of 46th Street and Broadway
in Astoria, Queens, it is served by M train on weekdays,
the R train at all times except nights, and E train at night.
After Joe Biden was elected as the 46th U.S. President,
someone covered the word "St." with "Joe" (Right photo).
Photo Source: 46th S(reet (everipedia.org)
101) 46th Avenue Flushing: 162-13 46th Ave, Flushing, NY 11358
is a 3-story commercial building plus basement
with 13 units and consists of 5,600 sq. feet.
The tenancy includes medical offices on the upper
floors and retail on the ground floor. The owner
has also completed a buildout of the basement level
as offices to generate additional income, Built in 2007.
Photo Source: 46th Avenue Flushing (loopnet.com)
102) Wawona and 46th Avenue Station (also known as SF Zoo) is a light rail stop
on the Muni Metro L Taraval line, located in the Parkside neighborhood of
San Francisco, California. The stop opened as the terminus of an extension
of the line to the San Francisco Zoo on Sept. 15, 1937. It has a single side
platform (a transit bulb that is part of the sidewalk) serving a single-track
loop. A mini-high platform provides access to people with disabilities.
Photo Source: Wawona and 46th Avenue (en.wikipedia.org)
103) MIT Building 46 is at the corner of Main & Vassar Streets, Cambridge, MA 02139. It houses
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS); McGovern Institute for Brain Research;
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory; Simons Center for the Social Brain.
104) Richard Rodgers Theatre (formerly Chanin's 46th Street Theatre and
the 46th Street Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 226 West 46th Street
in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened
in 1925, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp and was constructed for
Irwin Chanin. It has 1,400 seats across two levels and is operated by
the Nederlander Organization. Both the facade and the auditorium
interior are NYC landmarks. Photo: Richard Rodgers Theatre (en.wikipedia.org)
105) St. Vincent's East Medical Office Building 46
46 Medical Park Drive East,
Birmingham, Alabama 35235.
Property size: 207,846 sq. feet; Lot size: 1.16 acre;
Parking spaces available: 351; Year built: 2005;
This property is off-market.
Photo Source: Medical Building 46 (commercialcafe.com)
106) Le Tastevin at 46 rue Saint-Louis-en-l'lle, Paris, France, 75004
is a French restaurant with 14 of 18 reviewers giving it 5 stars.
One reviewer writes: "Recommended by a stateside friend
as 'her favorite Parisian restaurant', we had very high
expectations going in. Le Tastevin remains one of our
favorite meals in Paris ever."
Photo Source: Le Tastevin, Paris (pinterest.com)
107) 46 Rue Poissonnière, 75002 Paris is a 6-storey building with 17 apartments.
It is 187 meters from the "Bonne Nouvelle" station.
It is 1.2 km from Place de la République,
1.2 km from Pompidou Centre,
as well as 1.3 km from Opera Garnier.
Louvre Museum is a 16-minute walk from the apartment.
Photo Source: 46 Rue Poissonnière, (humbor.meilleursagents.com)
108) Stanford Bronze Plaque 46 on the ground to the right of
Stanford's Memorial Church, is 20 paces from front door
of Building 60 (classrooms of Physics Learning Center).
It is dedicated to the Class of 1946. The first graduating
class at Stanford was 1892. In 1980, Stanford Provost
Don Kennedy strolled around the Inner Quad and
calculated that it would take 512 years for the bronze
class plaques embedded in the walkways to circle
the entire area ending with the Class of 2403.
46 in Sports & Games
109) Baseball's 46th World Series (1949):
New York Yankees (AL) beats Brooklyn Dodgers (NL) 4-1
(Dates: Oct. 5-9, 1949). Game 1: New York 1 Brooklyn 0
(Allie Reynolds shut out Dodgers; Don Newcombe strikes out 11
in losing cause with Tommy Heinrich's homer in the 9th inning);
Game 2: St. Brooklyn 1 New York 0 (Preacher Roe shuts out Yankees);
Game 3: New York 4 Brooklyn 3; Game 4: New York 6 Brooklyn 4;
Game 5: New York 10 Brooklyn 6. — Joseph L. Reichler (Ed.),
The Baseball Encyclopedia, 7th Ed., Macmillian, NY (1988), p. 2762.
Photo Source: 1949 World Series Program (ebay.com)
110) NFL's 46th Super Bowl (2012): was an American football game
between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion
New York Giants and the American Football Conference (AFC)
champion New England Patriots. The Giants defeated the Patriots
by the score of 21–17. The game was played on February 5, 2012,
at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, first time that the Super Bowl
was played in Indiana. Eli Manning, who completed 30 of 40 passes
for 296 yards, one touchdown, and no interceptions, was named
Super Bowl MVP for the second time in his career.
Photo Source: Super Bowl XLVI (wikipedia.org)
111) 46th NBA Finals (1993) was the championship round of the 1992-93
NBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. It featured
two-time defending NBA champion & Eastern Conference champion
Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, and Western Conference playoff
champion Phoenix Suns, winners of 62 games & led by egular season
rMVP Charles Barkley. The Bulls became first team since Boston Celtics
of 1960s to win 3 consecutive championship titles, clinching "three-peat"
with John Paxson's game-winning 3-pointer that gave them a 99-98
victory in Game 6. Photo Source: 1990 NBA Finals Logo (wikipedia.org)
112) Even though the Stanley Cup Finals was first awarded in 1893,
it did not become official until 1914 Stanley Cups Finals. So the
46th NHL Finals is the 1960 Stanley Cup Finals (April 7-14, 1960),
was the championship series of National Hockey League's (NHL)
1959-60 season, and the culmination of 1960 Stanley Cup playoffs.
It was contested between the four-time defending champion
Montreal Canadiens, appearing in their tenth consecutive finals, and Toronto Maple Leafs;
it was a rematch of the previous year's finals. The Canadiens won the series, 4-0, for their
fifth straight Cup victory, which stands as an NHL record. After the series Rocket Richard
retired. He went out with style, finishing with his 34th final-series goal in the third game.
Photo Source: 1960 NHL Champions (hockeygods.com)
113) Most Home Runs Hit in Same Game by Teammates: 46 by Mark McGwire and Jose Canesco
46 by Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio
46 by Jim Edmonds and Albert Pujols
[#1: 75 by Hank Aaron & Eddie Matthews #2: 73 by Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig,
#3: 68 by Willie Mays & Willie McCovey]
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 45
114) Most Career Games with Multiple Home Runs: 46 by Harmon Killebrew
& 46 by Mickey Mantle; (#1: 72 by Babe Ruth; #2: 69 by Barry Bonds)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 47
115) Joe DiMaggio got 91 hits during his 56-game hitting streak.
His 46th consective hit game was on July 5, 1941 with hit
off Phil Marchildon of Phiadelphia A's.
116) Rickey Henderson had his 46th stolen base (2nd base)
in the 1st inning against Pat Underwood of Detroit Tigers
on May 30, 1982 in his season stolen base record of 130 in 1982.
117) Most Doubles in a Season by a Switch-hitter
46: John Anderson, AL, Mil, 1901 (8th)
46: Frankie Frisch, NL, St. Louis, 1930 (8th)
(1st: Roger Hornsby .507)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 98
118) Highest On Base Percentage in a Season by a Right-handed Batter
.460: Eddie Stanky, NL, NY, 1950 (32nd)
(1st: Roger Hornsby .507)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 108
119) Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox (1978): 46 Homers, 213 Hits;
Vinny Castilla, Colorado Rockies (1998): 46 Homers, 206 Hits;
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 153
120) Most Home Runs by a Center Fielder in a Season—
46: Joe DiMaggio, New York Yankees 1937 (12th)
46: Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners 1996 (12th)
(#1: Hack Wilson 56, Chicago Cubs 1920)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 169
121) Most Career Home Runs after Age 40—
46: Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals (6th)
(#1: 79 by Barry Bonds, SF Giants; 72 by Carlton Fisk, Chicago White Sox
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 175
122) Most Career Shutouts by a Pitcher
46: Jack Powell (26th rank)
46: Tommy John (26th rank)
46: Roger Clemens (26th rank)
(#1: Walter Johnson 110, #2: Grover Cleveland Alexander 90)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 205
123) Most Wins by Pitcher after Age 40
46: Grover Cleveland Alexander, (13th rank)
(#1: Phil Niekro 121; #2 Jack Quinn 96; #3 Cy Young 75; Warren Spahn 75)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book (2007), p. 217
124) 4th in Most Games Stated by a Pitcher in MLB since 1900
46— Dave Davenport (1915); Christy Mathewson (1904);
Rube Waddell (1904); Ed Walsh (1907); Vic Willis (1902);
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 26.
125) Most Touchdown Passing in NCAA Football Season
16th highest: 46— Andre Ware, University of Houston (1989)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 47.
126) Biggest Blowouts in Super Bowl
2nd highest: 46-10— Chicago Bears beats New England Patriots, Super Bowl XX (1986)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 53.
127) 3rd Longest Fumble Returns in Super Bowl
46 yards— James Washington, Dallas Cowboys vs, Buffalo Bills in 1994 Super Bowl XXVIII
(Washington returned fumble 46 yards for a touchdown to tie the game, and won 30-13)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 57.
128) 5th Highest Assists in NCAA Basketball Tournament
46 by Lazarus Sims, Syracuse (1996))
(#1 Mark Wade, UNLV, 1987, 61 assists;
#2 Rumeal Robinson, Michigan, 1989, 56 assists)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 77.
129) Most Goals by a Defenseman in NHL Single Season
46 by Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins (1974-1975)
(Record held for 10 years until Paul Coffey totalled 48 in 1985–86)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 128.
130) Oldest Player to Win Golf Masters Championship
46 years, 82 days by Jack Nicklaus (1986) 279
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 138.
131) Oldest Player to Win British Open Golf Championship
46 years, 96 days by Tom Morris Sr. (1867) 170
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 142.
132) Most Games Played in Europe Ryder Cup Golf Matches
46 by Nick Faldo (in 1977, he became the then—
youngest Ryder Cup player at the age of 20)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 149.
133) Oldest Winner of LPGA Tour
46 years, 164 days by JoAnne Carner (1985 Safeco Classics)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 152.
134) Fastest run in 400 meters Hurdles Olympics
46.78 seconds, by Kevin Young, in 1992 Olympics, Barcelona, Spain
(World record for 29 years until broken by Karsten Warholm 7-1-2021)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 184.
135) 18th Nascar All-Time Driver Wins
46 by Buck Baker (1949-1976)
(#1 Richard Petty 200 wins, #2 David Pearson 105 wins)
Mike Meserole, The Ultimate Book of Sports Lists 1998
DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 1997, p. 204.
136) 46th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jean Borotra beats Howard Kinsey
(8-6, 6-1, 6-3) on July 2, 1926.
137) 46th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Dorothy Round
(6-4, 6-8, 6-3) on July 8, 1933.
138) 46th Kentucky Derby was won by Paul Jones in 2:09.00
with Jockey Ted Rice aboard (May 8, 1920).
139) 46th Preakness Stakes was won by Broomspun in 1:54.20
with Jockey Frank Coltiletti aboard (May 16, 1921).
140) 46th Belmont Stakes was won by Luke McLuke in 2:20.00
with Jockey Merritt C. Buxton aboard (June 20, 1914).
141) 46th U.S. Golf Open: Sam Snead by a 2-and-1 score over Jim Turnesa in 36 holes
at Seaview Country Club in Galloway Township, New Jersey (May 31, 1942)
142) Baseball Players with Uniform #46—

Lee Smith #46
Chicago Cubs
(1980-1987)
Andy Pettitte #46
New York Yankees
(1995-2003), (2007-2010, 2012-2013)
Mike Flanagan #46
Baltimore Orioles
(1975-1987), (1991-1992)
Bob Stanley #46
Boston Red Sox
(1970-1979)
Steve Trachsel #46
Chicago Cubs
(1993-1999)
Lee Smith (b. Dec. 4, 1957): is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 18 years in MLB for eight teams.
Serving mostly as a relief pitcher during his career, he was a dominant closer & held the major league record for career saves
from 1993 until 2006, when Trevor Hoffman passed his total of 478. Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019 by the Today's Game Era Committee. Games pitched: 1,022, Win-loss record: 71-92, ERA: 3.03, Strikeouts: 1,251, Saves: 478.
Andy Pettitte (b. June 15, 1972): is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in MLB, primarily for New York Yankees. He also pitched for Houston Astros (2004-2006), returned to Yankees (2007-2010, 2012-2013). Pettitte won five World Series championships with the Yankees and was a three-time All-Star. He ranks as MLB's all-time postseason wins leader with 19. Among Yankees pitchers, Pettitte ranks first in strikeouts (2,020), third in wins (219), and tied for first in games started (438). He won the most games of any pitcher in the 2000s. The Yankees retired his uniform number 46 and dedicated a plaque to him in Monument Park in 2015. Win-loss record: 256-153, Earned run average: 3.85, Strikeouts: 2,448.
Mike Flanagan (1951-2011): was an American professional baseball left-handed pitcher, front office executive, and color commentator. He spent 18 years as a player in MLB with Baltimore Orioles (1975-1987, 1991-1992) and Toronto Blue Jays
(1987-1990). In 1979, the first of two years he would play on an AL pennant winner, his 23 victories led the circuit and
earned him AL's Cy Young Award. He was a member of Orioles' World Series Championship team in 1983. In an
18-season career, Flanagan posted a 167-143 record with 1,491 strikeouts and a 3.90 ERA in 2,770 innings pitched.
Bob Stanley (b. Nov. 10, 1954): is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who spent his entire MLB career with the Boston Red Sox. He was later the pitching coach for Buffalo Bisons, Triple-A affiliate of Toronto Blue Jays, through the 2018 season. In a 13-year career spent entirely with the Red Sox, he compiled a 115-97 win-loss record with 693 strikeouts, a 3.64 ERA, 21 complete games, seven shutouts, 132 saves, and 1707 innings pitched in 637 games (85 as a starter). No one in Boston Red Sox history has appeared in more games as a pitcher than Bob Stanley. More than Cy Young, Roger Clemens, Luis Tiant, Pedro Martinez, Curt Schilling.
Steve Trachsel (b. Oct. 31, 1970): is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher with Chicago Cubs, Tampa Bay
Devil Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles between 1993 and 2008. He batted and threw
right-handed. Win-loss record: 143-159, Earned run average: 4.39 Strikeouts: 1,591. In 1998, Trachsel went 15-8 with
an ERA of 4.46, 149 strikeouts & one complete game in 33 starts. On September 8, Trachsel allowed Mark McGwire's
record breaking 62nd home run, breaking Roger Maris' longtime record of 61. McGwire hit the pitch 341 feet over
the left field wall, his shortest of the year. McGwire went on to hit 70 home runs that year.
Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), pp. 142-143;
Photo Sources: Lee Smith (media.gettyimages.com); Andy Pettitte (stadiumtalk.com); Mike Flanagan (baseball-almanac.com);
Bob Stanley (1980toppsbaseball.blogspot.com); Steve Trachsel (r.search.yahoo.com/)
143) Football Players with Uniform #46—

Todd Christensen #46
Oakland / LA Raiders
(1979-1988)
Tim McDonald #46
San Francisco 49ers
(1993-1999)
Pete Johnson #46
Cincinnati Bengals
(1977-1983)
Don Fleming #46
Cleveland Browns
(1960-1962)

Doug Plank #46
Chicago Bears
(1975-1982)
Todd Christensen (1956-2013) was an American football player who played in the NFL from 1978 until 1988,
spending most of that time playing tight end for Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders. Following his retirement,
Christensen became a commentator for both professional & collegiate games, working for NBC Sports, ESPN,
and CBS Sports Network among others. As tight end for Oakland Raiders, he won Super Bowl championship
(XV, XVIII). He was 5x Pro Bowl (1983-1987), 2x NFL receptions leader (1983, 1986). NFL Career Statistics—
Receptions: 461; Receiving yards:: 5,872; Receiving touchdowns:: 41.
Tim McDonald (b. Jan. 6, 1965) is a former college & professional American football player who was a strong
safety in the NFL for 13 seasons during the 1980s & 1990s. McDonald played college football for the University
of Southern California (USC), & was honored as a two-time All-American & two-time team MVP. A second-round
pick in the 1987 NFL Draft, McDonald played professionally for the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals (1987-1992) and
San Francisco 49ers (1993-1999) of the NFL. Upon conclusion of his playing career, McDonald entered coaching,
most recently serving as defensive backs coach for New York Jets & Buffalo Bills. Super Bowl champion (XXIX);
NFL Career Statistics— Games played: 191; Tackles: 1,263; Interceptions: 40; Fumbles recovered: 16.
Pete Johnson (b. March 2, 1954) is a former professional American football running back and played 8 seasons
in the NFL, primarily with Cincinnati Bengals. Played college football at Ohio State University under head coach
Woody Hayes. Career NFL statistics— Rushing yards: 5,626; Average: 3.8; Touchdowns: 76. Best season was in 1981,
where he made his only Pro Bowl selection. Johnson set career highs in rushing (1,077 yards), receptions (46),
receiving yards (320) & touchdowns (16), leading Bengals to 12-4 record, with home field advantage for AFC playoffs.
Don Fleming (1937-1963) was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive back in
the NFL for three seasons (1960-1962). Fleming played college football for University of Florida, and thereafter,
he played professionally for Cleveland Browns of the NFL. His professional football career was cut short by his
accidental death by electrocution in 1963. Fleming played regularly at safety, intercepted ten passes, recovered
four fumbles, and made The Sporting News All-NFL team in 1962. Cleveland Browns uniform No. 46 retired.
Doug Plank (b. March 4, 1953) is a former American football safety and coach in the NFL. He spent his entire
eight-year NFL playing career with the Bears (1975-1982). He became an instant starter with the Bears and was
the first Bears rookie to lead the team in tackles. Plank was a favorite of Bears defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan
for his hard hitting and aggressive style, so that he named his defense the "46 defense" after Plank's jersey number.
Plank played one season in the USFL for the Chicago Blitz. Career NFL statistics— Interceptions:: 15; INT Yards: 166.
In 2001, Plank began his coaching career as a defensive coordinator in the Arena Football League for three seasons.
The Arizona Rattlers played in three consecutive Arenabowls. His coaching record was 71-41 (.634).
Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), pp. 142-143;
Photo Sources: Todd Christenson (insidetheparkcollectibles.com); Tim McDonald (mages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com);
Pete Johnson (ebay.com); Don Fleming (sportsecyclopedia.com); Doug Plank (deanscards.com)

46 in Collectibles, Coins & Postage Stamps
144) 1946 Coins in U.S. Currency: Washington Quarter 25¢, Roosevelt Dime 10¢, Jefferson Nickel 5¢, Lincoln Penny 1¢




Image sources: Washington Quarter (usacoinbook.com; ; Roosevelt Dime (usacoinbook.com);
Jefferson Nickel (usacoinbook.com); Lincoln Penny (usacoinbook.com)
145) 1946 U.S. Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Obverse: Lady Liberty walking, holding branches, sunrise ahead
Reverse: Bald Eagle rising from a mountaintop perch
U.S. 1943 Walking Liberty Half Dollar (Mintage: 12,118,000)
a silver 50-cent piece or half dollar coin issued by U.S. Mint (1916-1947).
Designed by Adolph A. Weinman. Obverse resembles Oscar Roty's "Sower" design for French coins. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule regarded Walking Liberty half dollar to be "one of the greatest United States coins— if not of
the world". American Silver Eagle (1986-present) uses Weinman's original
"Walkimg Liberty" design. Image source: Walking Liberty Half Dollar (usacoinbook.com)
146) 1846-O U.S. Seated Liberty Silver Half-Dollar
Obverse: Seated Liberty with 13 Stars & Coinage Year
Reverse: Bald Eagle with Olive Branches & Arrows
U.S. 1842 Liberty Seated Dollars were designed by U.S. Mint engraver
Christian Gobrecht who also designed the Half-Dollar. Silver dollars
were struck from 1840-1873. 2,304,000 of the 1846 Half-Dollars were
minted with No Motto. $1,184 for uncirculated coins.
Image source: 1846-O Half-Dollar (usacoinbook.com)
147) 1846 U.S. Braided Hair Large Cent
Obverse: Lady Liberty with Braided Hair & Coinage Year
Reverse: One Cent surrrounded by Olive Branches
U.S. 1846 Braided Hair Lady Liberty was designed by U.S. Mint engraver
Christian Gobrecht. Coin was 100% copper with diameter of 28.5 mm
(1.12 inch). 1846 Braided Hair Large Cent (Penny) features a smaller
and petite liberty head on the obverse & large letters on the reverse side.
Image source: 1846 Braided Hair Large Cent (usacoinbook.com)
148) 1846 Spain 8 Maravedis Isabella
Obverse: Queen Isabella II facing right divides 8 M value
Reverse: Central oval with 3 fleurs-de-lis, lion in two quarters,
castle in two quarters, divided by a swirl shape
Denomination: 8 maravedis; Composition: Copper
Diameter: 28 mm; Thickness: 2 mm; Price: 45 euros
Image source: 1846 Spain Isabella (numisbids.com)
149) 1846 Peru Limae 8 Real
Obverse: Lady Liberty with Spear & Shield
Reverse: 1846 Date, 8 Real, Perus's Coat of arms: Holm oak civic crown
on top; Seal has Vicuna at left & Cinchona tree at right; Cornucopia
with coins at bottom; Palm leaves on legt & Laurel leaves on right;
Early Republic coin, Silver, Multicolored surface tone with lots of
underlying luster. Image source: 1846 Peru Limae 8 Real (vcoins.com
150) 1846 Abolition of Slavery Medal
This 1846 Colombia Medal is made of copper.
Obverse: Simon Bolivar on Pedestal, Liberator;
Reverse: Standing Bolivar at right with proclamation,
kneeling male slave at his feet, female slave at left
with suckling babe, palm tree behind her;
At bottom: MONUMENTO: MDCCCXXXXVI (1846)
Image source: 1846 Colombia Medal (icollector.com)
151) 1846 Guatemala 1/4 Real Medal
Guatemala Medal Weight: 0.81 gram;
Obverse: Upright Tree in Center;
Large "G" on left; 1/4 Real on right;
Reverse: Three Overlapping Mountains,
Bursting Sunshine Rays, Small Face of
Sun Sleeping; Large Date 1846 at bottom
Image source: 1846 Guatemala Medal (uction.sedwickcoins.com)
152) There are 100 Marvel Value Stamps
issued 1974-1976 in Marvel Comic Books
Stamp #46 Mysterio
from Avengers #126
Artist: Steve Ditko
Comic Issues containing this stamp:
Avengers #126, August 1974, p. 19
Captain America #181, January 1975, p. 19
Ka-Zar #3, May 1974, p. 32
Amazing Spider-Man, June 12, 1974
153) There are 200 cards in Wings: Friend or Foe (Topps 1952)
Card #46 is Sky Ray, Navy Jet Fighter
154) There are 160 cards in World on Wheels (Topps 1953)
Card #46 is Belly Tank, 3-Wheeler, American Hot Rod
155) There are 135 cards in Look 'n See (Topps 1952)
Card #46 is Annie Oakley (Crack Shot) (Source)
156) There are 156 cards in Scoop (Topps 1954)
Card #46 is Pony Express Starts (April 3, 1860)
157) There are 64 cards in Firefighters (Bowman 1953)
Card #46 is Modern Fire Boat (Source)
158) There are 80 cards in Flags of the World (Topps 1956)
Card #46 is Afghanistan
159) There are 48 cards in Antique Autos (Bowman 1953)
Card #46 is Peerless
(Back of card with 3-D drawing viewed with 3-D glasses in gum packs)
160) There are 80 cards in Davy Crockett (Topps 1956, orange back)
Card #46 is Off to Texas
161) United States Postage Stamps with 46¢ denominations
U.S. First class mail postage rate: 41¢ (5-14-2007 to 5-11-2008),
42¢ (5-12-2008 to 5-10-2009), 44¢ (5-11-2009 to 1-21-2012).
45¢ (1-22-2012 to 1-26-2013). 46¢ (1-27-2013 to 1-25-2014)
234 stamps issued in year (2013) with 46¢ rate, but only
5 shown with 46¢ face value; the rest were Forever stamps.
Note: Stamps were downloaded from the web; Click on catalogue # for their source.


U.S. 4722, 46¢
Kaleidoscope Flower
(issued Jan. 14, 2013)
U.S. 4723, 46¢
Yellow Green Leaves
(issued Jan. 14, 2013)
U.S. 4724, 46¢
Red Violet Leaves
(issued Jan. 14, 2013)
U.S. 4725, 46¢
Red Outer Leaves
(issued Jan. 14, 2013)
U.S.4749, 46¢
Patriotic Star
(issued March 19, 2013)
162) Canadian Postage Stamps with 46¢ denominations

Canada 1767, 46¢
Year of Rabbit
(issued Jan. 8, 1999)
Canada 1770, 46¢
Northern Goshawk
(issued Feb. 24, 1999)
Canada 1771, 46¢
Red Winged Blackbird
(issued Feb. 24, 1999)
Canada 1772, 46¢
American Goldfinch
(issued Feb. 24, 1999)

Canada 1773, 46¢
Sandhill Crane
(issued Feb. 24, 1999)
Canada 1779, 46¢
Marco Polo Ship
(issued Mar. 19, 1999)
Canada 1781, 46¢
Yellowhead Highway: Bison
(issued March 31, 1999)
Canada 1781
Lady's Slipper
(4-27-1999)

Canada 1791, 46¢
Northern Dancer
(issued June 2, 1999)
Canada 1801, 46¢
Track & Field
(issued July 12, 1999)
Canada 1808g, 46¢
McDonnell Douglas CF-18
(issued Sept. 4, 1999)
Canada 1819b
Cirque du Soleil
(issued 12-17-1999)

Canada 1820b, 46¢
Glenn Gould
(issued 12-17-1999)
Canada 1820c, 46¢
Guy Lombardo
(issued 12-17-1999)
Canada 1813, 46¢
Child & Peace Dove
(issued Oct. 12, 1999)
Canada 1826a
Pontiac Warrior
(issued 2-17-2000)
Canada 1827d
Stratford Festival
(issued 2-17-2000)
Canada 1825c
Lester B. Pearson
(issued 1-17-2000)

Canada 1832c, 46¢
Alexander G. Bell
(issued 3-17-2000)
Canada 1829a, 46¢
Marshall McLuhan
(issued 2-17-2000)
Canada 1829b, 46¢
Northrop Frye
(issued 2-17-2000)
Canada 1822a
Frederic Banting
(issued 1-17-2000)
Canada 1836
Chinese Dragon Year
(issued Jan. 5, 2000)

Canada 1838a, 46¢
Wayne Gretzky
(issued 2-5-2000)
Canada 1838b, 46¢
Gordie Howe
(issued 2-5-2000)
Canada 1829c, 46¢
Maurice Richard
(issued 2-5-2000)
Canada 1838e
Bobby Orr
(issued 2-5-2000)
Canada 1839
Canada Warbler
(issued 3-1-2000)
163) Foreign Postage Stamps with 46 denomination:

France 2940, 0.46 Euro
Tram & Tower
(issued April 4, 2003)
France 2928, 0.46 Euro
La Charite Church
(issued April 6, 2002)
France 2882, 0.46 Euro
Ship & Australia
(issued April 4, 2002)
France 2934
Metz Cathedral
(issued 7-6-2002)
France 2905
Louis Armstrong
(7-13-2002)

France 2926, 0.46 Euro
Valentine Hearts
(issued Jan. 11, 2003)
France 2928, 0.46 Euro
Merci (Thank You)
(issued Jan. 11, 2003)
France 2933
Eiffel Tower
(issued 2-22-2003)
France 2934
Lucky Luke
(issued 3-15-2003)
France 2937, 0.46 Euro
Toucan
(issued March 22, 2003)

Portugal 388, 46 Centavos
King Joao I & Batalha Monastery
(issued Aug. 13, 1926)
Hungary 419, 46 Filler
Budapest Palace
(issued April 29, 1927)
Romania B255, 4 + 46 Lei
Postal Chariot
(issued Feb. 1, 1944)
Romania 3876, 46 Lei
Water Scorpion
(issued Dec. 27, 1993)

Belgium 2125, 0.46 E;
Pied Avocet
(issued Jan. 21, 2006)
Belgium 1215b, 0.46 Euro;
Donkey
(issued Jan. 21, 2006)
Belgium 2132c, 0.46 Euro;
Ducks
(issued Jan. 21, 2006)
Belgium 2132e, 0.46 Euro;
Cattle
(issued Jan. 21, 2006)
Belgium 2132g, 0.46 Euro;
Rabbits
(issued Jan. 21, 2006)

Monaco 2236, 0.46 Euro
Throne Roomy
(issued Jan. 1, 2002)
Monaco 2261, 0.46 Euro
1, 2 and 5 Cent-Coins
(issued June 21, 2002)
Monaco 2261b, 0.46 Euro
10, 20 and 50 Cent-Coins
(issued June 21, 2002)
Monaco 2270, 0.46 Euro
Mercedes 220A Car
(issued Nov. 29, 2002)

Ireland 643i, 46 Pence
Cahir Castle, 12th Century
(issued September 1987)
Ireland 728, 46 Pence
Spanish Armada
(issued Oct. 6, 1988)
Ireland 753
Jawaharlal Nehru
(July 27, 1989)
Ireland 758, 46 Pence
Pheasant
(issued Oct. 5, 1989)
Ireland 762
Adoration Magi
(Nov. 14, 1989)
Note: Postage stamps with 46 denomination were found on the web. Consulted 2020 Scott Standard Postage Stamp
Catalogue Volumes 1A-6B (Los Altos Library) for Scott Catalogue #s. The stamps shown above were all downloaded
from the web using Google Images & eBay searches. Click on catalogue #s for image source where stamp appears.
Some stamps were retouched in Adobe Photoshop for centering and perforations with black background added.
Dates of issue were found in Scott Catalogues as well as Scott Catalogue #s. Click on stamp to enlarge.

46 in Books & Quotes
164) Quotes on 46:
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 13th & Centennial Edition (1956), p. 1241
has quotes on forty-nine, forty-second, forty-three, forty-two, but no quotes on 46.
• "There's 7 billion 46 million people on the planet
and most of us have the audacity to think we matter."
— George Watsky (Quote Master)
• "I am 46, and have been for some time past"
— Anita Brookner (Quote Master)
• "At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."
— Virginia Woolf (Quote Master)
• "When I went back to modeling, nobody knew
how to deal with a 46-year-old model!"
— Lauren Hutton (Quote Master)
• "If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46,
I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54"
— Bill Shoemaker (Quote Master)
• "I put everything I had into it— all my feelings and everything I'd
learned in 46 years of living, about family life and fathers and children.
And my feelings about racial justice and inequality and opportunity."
— Gregory Peck (Quote Master)
• "Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness.
It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.'
But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft:
You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
— Eckhart Tolle (Qote Master)
165) At 46 one must be a miser;
only have time for essentials.
— Virginia Woolf (1882-1941),
The Diary of Virginia Woolf (March 22, 1928)
Cited in 100 Years (Wisdom from Famous Writers on Every Year of Your Life),
Joshua Prager (selections) & Milton Glaser (visualizations),
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2016
166) Bollingen Series XLVI is Mircea Eliade's
"Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos & History"
(Princeton University Press, NJ, 1971)
167) Volume 46 of Time Magazine runs from
July 2, 1945, XLVI, No. 1 (Mel Ott, NY Giants)
to Dec. 24, 1945, XLVI, No. 26 (Christmas Issue)
Douglas MacArthur (8-27-1945, XLVI.9)
Chiang Kai-Shek (9-3-1945, XLVI.10)
Sinclair Lewis (10-8-1945, XLVI.15)
Sergei Prokofiev (11-19-1945, XLVI.21)
Mohamed Reza Pahlevi (12-17-1945, XLVI.25)
Photo Source: General Douglas MacArthur (time.com)
168) Volume 46 of Dictionary of Literary Biography is titled
"American Literary Publishing Houses, 1900-1980:
Trade & Paperback" published by Gale Research, Detroit, 465 pages (1986)
Trade publishers are those who publish books to be sold in bookstores— both hardcover volumes
& higher priced quality paperbacks. Mass market publishers produce inexpensive paperbacks to be sold
in such nontraditional outlets as newsstands and supermarkets, as well as in bookstores. Peter Dzwonkoski
writes in this DLB volumes foreword that beginning with the formation of Pocket Books in 1939, America has
witnessed the phenomenon known as Paperback Revolution, which has made literature available to more readers
than ever before. Volume 46 of DLB tracks the growth & development of trade publishing from the early decades
of 20th century through to the present. 200 entries include: Atheneum Publishers, Atlantic Monthly Press, CityLights
Books, Dramatists Play Service, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Grove Press, Alfred A. Knopf, McGraw-Hill, W.W. Norton
& Company, Sheed & Ward, Simon & Schuster, UptonSinclair, Time-Life Books, Vanguard Press & Viking Press.
169) Books & CD with 46 in the Title

Robert Rubel
The Modern 46 (2020)
Bill Wagenblatt (Ed)
Forty Six: The Birth of Porsche (2023)
Bruno Mars (2013)
Now 46: That's What I Call Music!
Carlos Alvarez (2011)
CH-46 Sea Knights
Scot Liell (2003)
46 Pages: Thomas Paine
Click on book cover for source of photo image

46 in Art, Music, & Film
170)
Krishna Print 46
When Indra sent rain clouds to test Krishna's divinity, Krishna lifted
Govardhana Hill on the little finger of His right hand and held it for
seven days to give shelter of all the residents of Vrindavana.
Darshan Art Gallery featuring 122 paintings
of Lord Krishna. Source: Krishna (stephen-knapp.com)
171) Woodblock Print 46 of 100 Views of Edo (1856-1858)
by Japanese painter & printmaker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
is titled "Yoroi Ferry" (1857). Notes from Brooklyn Museum:
The Yoroi Ferry, which we see in the distance loaded with a standing crowd,
transported passengers across the Nihonbashi River. It owed its name to
Minamoto Yoshiie (1041-1108), the medieval warrior who was said to have
hung his armor on the pine tree in number 26. Here, so the legend goes,
he pacified the waves during a great storm by sacrificing his armor to
the angry Dragon King of the sea. Behind the ferry are the warehouses
of Koami-cho, which stored rice, soy, and oil for the capital.
172)
No. 46 (Black, Ochre, Red Over Red) (1957) by Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
is an oil painting on canvas 81.5" x 99.5" at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA.
Analysis: Mark Rothko's abstract paintings are some of the most iconic artworks of the 20th century.
An exquisite colorist, Rothko became famous for enigmatic canvases filled with rectangular fields
hovering against brushy backdrops. He was deeply inspired by mythology & art history and wanted
to create a sense of emotive, metaphysical communion with his viewers. Rothko's style & experiments
with color laid the groundwork for mid-century color field painting. After dropping out of Yale in the
1920s, Rothko moved to New York and became ensconced in the emergent Abstract Expressionist
movement alongside artists including Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Franz Kline.
Source: No. 46 (Black, Ochre, Red Over Red) (wikiart.org)
173) SP2 #46 (2017) is a 36"x96" acrylic painting on canvas
by contemporary Canadian artist Peter Triantos.
The painting shows splash of color.
The explosion of colors gives the feeling of infinity.
Photo Source: SP2 #46 (rs.wescover.com)
174) Johann Sebastian Bach's Church Cantata #46 (BWV 46)
"Behold and see, if there be any sorrow" is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.
He composed it for the tenth Sunday after Trinity & was first performed on 1 August 1723
in Leipzig. The topic is based on the prescribed reading from the gospel of Luke, Jesus
announcing the destruction of Jerusalem and cleansing of the Temple. The cantata is scored
for 3 vocal soloists (alto, tenor and bass), a 4-part choir, & a Baroque instrumental ensemble
of a corno da tirarsi (slide trumpet), 2 recorders, 2 oboes da caccia, strings & basso continuo.
175) Joseph Haydn's Symphony #46 in B major, Hoboken I/46, was composed in 1772,
during his Sturm und Drang period. Work is scored for two oboes, bassoon,
two horns and strings. It is written in standard four movement format.
1. Vivace; 2. Poco adagio in B minor; 3. Menuet e Trio (Trio in B minor):
Allegretto; 4. Finale: Presto e scherzando. Since all of the movements
have the same tonic, the work is homotonal. Key of B major, sets the
tone of the work, which is one of unease, restlessness and searching.
176) Beethoven's Opus #46 is Adelaide, a song for solo voice and piano
composed in 1795. Text is a poem in German by Friedrich von Matthisson
(1761-1831). Poem expresses an outpouring of yearning for an idealized
and apparently unattainable woman. First stanza: Your friend wanders
alone in the garden of spring, Gently bathed in lovely magical light,
Which shimmers through the swaying branches of flowers: Adelaide!
(Song performed on YouTube)
177) Frederic Chopin's Opus #46 is Allegro de concert.
a piece for piano, published in November 1841. It is in one movement
and takes between 11 and 15 minutes to play. The principal themes are
bold and expressive. Created by Chopin from discarded material from
his incomplete concerto for two pianos & orchestra (the first notes were
written around 1832) and which presents all the general characteristics
of the opening movement of a concerto: there is an extensive introduction
and a possible section of only. It is considered one of Chopin's most
technically demanding compositions. (YouTube: Olga Gurevich)
Image Source: Chopin Op. 46 (youtube.com)
178) Johannes Brahms' Opus #46 is Four Songs (Lieder)
for voice and piano were composed
between 1864 and 1868, and first
published in 1868. Average duration
of the whole set is 11 minutes. YouTube:
Op. 46 Die Kranze; Victoria McGrath, Soprano
Image Source: Brahms Op. 46 (imslp.org)
179) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Opus #46
is 6 Duets. Written in 1880.
First Performance: 1889/12/31 in St. Petersburg;
Yevgeniya Mravina (soprano), Nina Fride (mezzo-soprano),
Eduard Nápravník (conductor)
1. Evening; 2. Scottish Ballad; 3. Tears;
4. In the Garden; 5. Passion Spent; 6. Dawn
(YouTube); Image Source: Tchaikovsky Op. 46 (imslp.org)
180) Jean Sibelius's Opus #46 is Pelléas et Mélisande.
for Maurice Maeterlinck's 1892 play of same title. Sibelius composed in 1905
10 parts, overtures to the 5 acts and 5 other movements. It was first performed
at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki on 17 March 1905 conducted by the composer.
Sibelius later slightly rearranged the music into a 9 movement suite, published
as Op. 46, which became one of his most popular concert works.
(YouTube: Beecham); Image Source: Sibelius Op. 46 (discogs.com)
181) Psalm 46:10 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed,
    and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
    though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
    among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
YouTube: Tim Keller; Image Source: Psalm 46:10 (pinterest.com)
182) Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by
Frank Cottrell Boyce, and starring Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton.
Produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films, the film is a dystopian
sci-fi love story, exploring implications of current trends in biotechnology.
In the future, the world is divided between those who live "inside", in
high-density cities, & underclass who live "outside." Access to the cities
is highly restricted and regulated through the use of health documents,
known as "papeles" in the global pidgin language of the day. William Geld,
an insurance fraud investigator, is sent to Shanghai to interview employees
at a company known as "The Sphinx", which manufactures the papeles.
Photo Source: Code 46 (pinterest.com)
183) 46th Academy Awards were presented on Tuesday, April 2, 1974, at the
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies
were presided over by Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, John Huston, and
David Niven. The Sting won 7 awards. The Exorcist and The Way We
Were were the only other films to win multiple awards
Best Picture: The Sting (Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips, producers);
Best Director: George Roy Hill for The Sting ;
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for Save the Tiger;
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson for A Touch of Class
Best Supporting Actor: John Houseman for The Paper Chase;
Best Supporting Actress:: Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon;

46 in the Bible
184) 46 occurs in the Bible 3 times:
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred..
— Numbers, 1:21 (1400 BC)
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
— Numbers, 2:11 (1400 BC)
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building,
and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
— John, 2:20 (30 AD)
The Complete Concordance to the Bible (New King James Version)
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, TN (1983), p. 325
185) 46th word of the King James Version of the Bible's Old Testament Genesis = light
1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
    And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
    And the evening and the morning were the first day.
    — Genesis I:1-3 (translated 1611)
186) In the 46th Psalms, Be still, and know that I am God:
  1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
  2. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though
      the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;.
  3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though
      the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
  10. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted
        among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
  11. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.
       — Psalms 46 (1023 BC),
187) Isaiah: Ch. 46: God saves his people to the end (712 BC)
46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of
Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
46:4 And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you:
I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
46:5 To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal,
and compare me, that we may be like?.
46:12 Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation
shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
188) Jeremiah: Ch. 46: Overthrow of Pharoah's Army (588 BC)
46:1 The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble,
and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.
46:7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?
46:13 The word that the Lord spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
46:28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee;
for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee:
but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure;
yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
189) Ezekiel: Ch. 46: Ordinances for the Prince & Public to worship (574 BC)
46:1 Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh
toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath
it shall be, opened and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of
this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the
sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of
the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty
cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
190) 46th Book of Enoch describes Astronomical secrets revealed:
1. And there I saw One who had a head of days,
    And His head was white like wool,
    And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man,
    And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
2. And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things,
    concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and):
    why he went with the Head of Days? And he answered and said unto me:
    This is the son of Man who hath righteousness,:
    With whom dwelleth righteousness,:
    And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,:
    Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,:
    And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before:
    the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.:
4. And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen
    Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats,
    [And the strong from their thrones]
    And shall loosen the reins of the strong,
    And break the teeth of the sinners.
— Book of Enoch, XLVI.1-8 (circa 105 B.C.-64 B.C.)
     translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K., London, 1917, pp. 63-65
191) 46th Saying of Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus said, "From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women,
no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his eyes should not
be averted. But I have said that whoever among you becomes a child will
recognize the (Father's) kingdom and will become greater than John."
— Gospel of Thomas Saying #46 (114 sayings of Jesus, circa 150 A.D.)
     (trans. Marvin Meyer, 1992; adapted by Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief, p. 239)
192) Chapter 46 of Pistis Sophia (circa 150 A.D.):
Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: "It came to pass,
when Pistis Sophia had finished uttering the sixth repentance for the forgiveness of her
transgression, that she turned again to the height, to see if her sins were forgiven her,
and to see whether they would lead her up out of the chaos.
  1. O Light, I have lifted up my power unto thee, my Light.
  4. O Light, show me thy ways, and I shall be saved in them;
      and show me thy paths, whereby I shall be saved out of the chaos.
  5. And guide me in thy light, and let me know, O Light, that thou
      art my saviour. On thee will I trust the whole of my time.
  8. For good and sincere is the Light. For this cause will it
      grant me my way, to be saved out of my transgression;
11. For the sake of the mystery of thy name, O Light,
      forgive my transgression, for it is great.
15. But I have ever had faith in the Light, for it will
      save my feet from the bonds of the darkness.
— Pistis Sophia, Chapter 46
     ((Translated by Violet MacDermott, Edited by Carl Schmidt,
     (Nag Hammadi Studies, IX: Pistis Sophia, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1978, pp. 65-69)
193) In Chapter 46 of The Aquarian Gospel, A storm on the sea. Jesus rescues many drowning men.
The Athenians pray to idols. Jesus rebukes their idolatry and tells how God helps.
  1. It was a holy day and Jesus walked upon the Athens beach.
  2. A storm was on and ships were being tossed about like toys upon the bosom ofthe sea.
  4. And Jesus halted not, but with a mighty power he rescued many
      a helpless one, oft bringing back to life the seeming dead.
13. The God that saves dwells in your souls, and manifests by
      making use of your own feet, and legs, and arms, and hands.
14. Strength never comes through idleness; nor through a waiting for
      another one to bear your loads, or do the work that you are called to do.
15. But when you do your best to bear your loads, and do your work,
      you offer unto God a sacrifice well-pleasing in his sight.
16. The Holy One breathes deep upon your glowing sacrificial coals, and makes
      them blaze aloft to fill your souls with light, and strength and helpfulness
17. The most efficient prayer that men can offer to a god of
      any kind is helpfulness to those in need of help; for what
      you do for other men the Holy One will do for you.
25. Lift up your heads, you men of Greece; the time will come
      when Greece will breathe the ethers of the Holy Breath
      and be a mainspring of the spirit power of earth.
 — The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 46
     Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi H. Dowling
     DeVorss & Co., Santa Monica, CA, 1908, Reset 1964, pp. 86-87

46 in Books on Philosophy and Religion
194)

Book of the Dead cover		 Chapter 46
for not perishing and for being alive in the God's Domain
in The Papyrus of Ani, Egyptian Book of the Dead:
"O you young men of Shu
of the morning,
who have power over
those who flash among
the sun-folk, whose arms
move about and whose
heads sway to and fro;
may I move about every day."
— Egyptian Book of the Dead: Book of Going Forth by Day
    Complete Papyrus of Ani, Chapter 46, Plate 16 (circa 1250 B.C.)
    (translated by Raymond Faulkner), Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1994
    Image Sources:: Book Cover (wisdomportal.com)
195) Hymn 46 in Book 3 of the Rig Veda is a song to Indra, the God of Strength:
1. OF thee, the Bull, the Warrior, Sovran Ruler, joyous and fierce, ancient and ever youthful,
    The undecaying One who wields thunder, renowned & great, great are the exploits, Indra.
2. Great art thou, Mighty Lord, through manly vigour, O fierce One, gathering spoil, subduing others,
    Thyself alone the universe's Sovran: so send forth men to combat and to rest them.
3. He hath surpassed all measure in his brightness, yea, and the Gods, for none may be his equal.
    Impetuous Indra in his might cxceedcth wide vast mid-air and heaven and earth together.
4. To Indra, even as rivers to the ocean, flow forth from days of old the Soma juices;
    To him wide deep & mighty from his birth-time, well of holy thoughts, aIl-comprehending.
5. The Soma, Indra, which the earth and heaven bear for thee as a mother bears her infant,
    This they send forth to thee, this, vigorous Hero! Adhvaryus purify for thee to drink of.
 — Rig Veda Book 3, 46.1-5 (circa 1500 B.C.)
196) 46th Hexagram of the I Ching: Shêng/Pushing Upward (1000 B.C.)
Upper Trigram: K'un, The Receptive, Earth
Lower Trigram: Sun, The Gentle, Wind, Wood
THE JUDGMENT:
Pushing Upward has supreme success.
One must see the great man.
Fear not.
Departure toward the south.
Brings good fortune.		 THE IMAGE:
Within the earth, wood grows:
The image of Pushing Upward.
Thus the superior man of devoted character
Heaps up small things
In order to achieve something high and great.
I Ching: The Book of Changes, Wilhelm/Baynes translation,
Princeton University Press, 3rd Ed., 1968, pp. 178-179
Image Source:: Hexagram 46 (psychic-revelation.com)
197)
Lao Tzu (604-517 BC), Tao Te Ching, Verse 46:

When a country is in harmony with the Tao,
the factories make trucks and tractors.
When a country goes counter to the Tao,
warheads are stockpiled outside the cities.
There is no greater illusion than fear,
no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself,
no greater misfortune than having an enemy
Whoever can see through all fear
will always be safe.

— translated by Stephen Mitchell
    Tao Te Ching, Harper Perennial, N.Y. (1994)
Lao Tzu
(604 B.C.-517 B.C.)
Chinese silk painting
from British Museum
198) Lao Tzu (604-517 BC), Hua Hu Ching Verse 46:
The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to yin & yang. Yin & yang give birth to all things.
Now forget this. The complete whole is the complete whole. So also is any part the complete whole.
Forget this, too. Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego. Time and space
are changing and dissolving, not fixed and real. They can be thought of as accessories, but don't think
of them. Supernatural beings without form extend their life force throughout the universe to support
beings both formed and unformed. But never mind this; the supernatural is just a part of nature,
like the natural. The subtle truth emphasizes neither and includes both. All truth is in tai chi:
to cultivate the mind, body, or spirit, simply balance the polarities. If people understood this,
world peace and universal harmony would naturally arise. But forget about understanding
and harmonizing and making all things one. The universe is already a harmonious oneness;
just realize it. If you scramble about in search of inner peace, you will lose your inner peace..
(translated by Brian Walker, Hua Hu Ching: Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu,
Harper San Francisco 1992)
199)
Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), Confucian Analects, Book 14, Chapter 46—

Yüan Zang was squatting on his heels, and so waited the approach
of the Master, who said to him, "In youth not humble as befits a
junior; in manhood, doing nothing worthy of being handed down;
and living on to old age:— this is to be a pest."
With this he hit him on the shank with his staff.
— Confucius (551 BC-479 BC), Confucian Analects, 14:46
translated by James Legge (1893); Hong Kong Edition (1962), p. 131
Note: A. Charles Muller lists above in Confucian Analects 14:44
China #741 Confucius
(issued 8-27-1946)
200) Verse 46 of Pythagoras's Golden Verses:
They will put thee in the way of Divine Virtue.
Pythagoras (580-500 B.C.), Golden Verses, Verse 46
(translated by A.E.A., Collectanea Hermetica, Vol. V, 1894)
reprinted in Percy Bullock, The Dream of Scipio, Aquarian Press,
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK, 1983, p. 55
201) Aphorism 46 of Symbols of Pythagoras:
Nudis pedibus adorato et sacrificato.
Adore the Gods, and sacrifice barefoot. — Dacier
Reverence was indicated by the baring of the feet,
by the Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. Remember the
instruction to Moses. The maxim refers to spiritual
humility, as well as to bodily procedure.
— Pythagoras (580-500 B.C.), Symbols of Pythagoras
(translated by Sapere Aude, Collectanea Hermetica, Vol. V, 1894)
reprinted in Percy Bullock, The Dream of Scipio, Aquarian Press,
Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK, 1983, p. 79
202) Fragment 46 of Heraclitus (540 B.C.-480 B.C.):
A dry soul is wisest and best.
— Philip Wheelwright, Heraclitus,
Athenum, New York (1964), p. 58
Originally published by Princton University Press, 1959
Romania #1442, 10 Bani stamp honoring 2500th anniversary
of birth of Heraclitus of Ephesus (issued October 25, 1961)
Image Source: Heraclitus Romanian Stamp (stampsoftheworld.co.uk)
203) Section 46 of Plato's Philebus— Socrates to Protarchus on pleasure & pain:
For instance, the relief of the itch & the like by scratching, no other
treatment being required. For in Heaven's name what shall we say
the feeling is which we have in this case? Is it pleasure or pain? (46a).
In the case of the mixtures in which the pains are more than the pleasures—
say the itch, which we mentioned just now, or tickling— when the burning
inflammation is within and is not reached by the rubbing and scratching (46d).
— Plato (428-348 BC), Philebus 46a, 46d (360 BC)
(trans. R. Hackforth), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns,
Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI,
Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 1126-1127
204) Section 46 of Plato's Timaeus— Socrates to Timaeus on visible bodies & invisible Soul:
the Form of the Most Good; but by the most of men they are supposed to be not
auxiliary but primary causes of all things— cooling and heating, solidifying
and dissolving, and producing all such effects. Yet they are incapable of
possessing reason & thought for any purpose. For, as we must affirm, the one
and only existing thing which has the property of acquiring thought is Soul;
and Soul is invisible, whereas fire and water and earth and air are all visible
bodies; and the lover of thought and knowledge must needs pursue first
— Plato (428-348 BC), Timaeus 46d (360 BC)
(trans. Benjamin Jowett), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns,
Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI,
Princeton University Press, 1961, p. 1174
205) 46th Verse of Buddha's Dhammapada: Canto IV— The Flowers
Recognizing this corporeal body to be evanescent as foam,
comprehending this worldly nature as a mirage, and having
broken the flower-arrows of Cupid (Mara), the true aspirant
will go beyond the realm of the Evil One.
Dhammapada Verse 46 (240 B.C.)
(translated by Harischandra Kaviratna, Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, 1980)
206) 46th Verse of Chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita
(Krishna's lecture to Arjuna on karma yoga):
As is the use of a well of water where water everywhere overflows,
such is the use of all the Vedas to the seer of the Supreme (2:46)
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, Verse 46
(Translated by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Books, 1962, p. 52)
207) 46th Verse of Chapter 11 of Bhagavad Gita
(Krishna's lecture to Arjuna on karma yoga):
I yearn to see thee again with thy crown and scepter and circle.
Show thyself to me again in thine own four-armed form,
thou of arms infinite, Infinite Form. (11:46)
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, Verse 46
(Translated by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Books, 1962, p. 94
208) 46th Verse of Chapter 18 of Bhagavad Gita
(Krishna's lecture to Arjuna on renunciation & surrender):
A man attains perfection when his work is worship of God,
from whom all things come and who is in all. (18:46)
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18, Verse 46
(Translated by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Books, 1962, p. 119)
209) 46th Verse in Chapter 18 of Ashtavakra Gita
(Sage Ashtavakra's dialogue with King Janaka):
Encountering the desireless man-lion,
the elephants of sense-objects quietly
run away; or, if unable to run away,
serve him like flattering courtiers.
Glory of the Man-of-Perfection is pointed out here,
indicating how he lives amidst the sense-objects,
unmolested by them. Ashtavakra says sense-objects
run after him to serve him faithfully, as flattering
courtiers rush to serve their royal master.
Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 18, Verse 46 (circa 400 B.C.)
Translated by Swami Chinmayananda (1972), pp. 307-308
Online translation by John Henry Richards (2015)
210) 46th Aphroism Patanjali's Yoga Sutra:
Asana is steadiness and ease.
Patanjali (circa 200 B.C.), Yoga Sutra I.46: Aphroism 46 (circa 200 B.C.)
translated by Rama Prasada, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1998, p. 79
211) 46th Aphroism in Book 4 of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:
Always remember the dictum of Heraclitus, 'Death of earth,
birth of water; death of water, birth of air; from air, fire;
and so round again.' Remember also his 'wayfrer
oblivious of where his road is leading'. (4:46)
No event can happen to a man but what is properly incidental to man's
condition, nor to an ox, vine, or stone but what properly belongs to the
nature of oxen, vines, and stones, Then if all things experience only what
is customary and natural to them, why complain? The same Nature which
is yours as well as theirs brings you nothing you cannot bear. (8:46)
— Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Meditations
4:46, 6:46 8:46: Aphroism 46 (circa 161-180)
translated by Maxwell Staniforth, Penguin Books,
Baltimore, MD, 1964, pp. 73-74, 102, 131
Image Source: Marcus Aurelius (rationalwalk.com)
212) 46th Trigraph of the Ling Ch'i Ching: Ning Chih
Coagulated and Congested
The image of being unsettled.
A cluster of yin within causes separation.
Ken (Mountain) * Northwest.
Oracle:
My thoughts have plans but fear they cannot
be implemented. Advancing and retreating
are hesitant, not knowing what to do.
Verse:
Advancing and retreating, affairs difficult to complete,
Worry and doubt turn to impediments.
If you want to know when you will enjoy prosperous days,
Just wait until spring of another year.
—Tung-fang Shuo,
Ling Ch'i Ching (circa 222-419)
(trans. Ralph D. Sawyer & Mei-Chün Lee Sawyer, 1995, pp. 121-122)
213) Text 46 of On Prayer: 153 Texts
of Evagrios the Solitary (345-399 AD)
While you are praying, the memory brings
before you fantasies either of past things,
or of recent concerns, or of the face of
someone who has irritated you.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 61)
214) Text 46 of St. Mark the Ascetic (5th-6th c.),
On Those who Think They Are Made Righteous by Works: 226 Texts
Voluntary affliction in one of these parts of our nature
benefits the other: to suffer affliction with the mind benefits
the flesh, and to suffer it with the flesh benefits the mind.
When our mind and flesh are not in union, our state deteriorates.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 129)
215) Text 46 of On Watchfulness and Holiness
of Saint Hesychios the Priest (circa 7th century AD)
The provocation comes first, then our coupling with it, or the mingling
of our thoughts with those of the wicked demons. Third comes our assent to
the provocation, with both sets of intermingling thoughts contriving how to
commit the sin in practice. Fourth comes the concrete action — that is, the sin
itself. If, however, the intellect is attentive and watchful, and at once repulses
the provocation by counter-attacking & gainsaying it and invoking the Lord Jesus,
its consequences remain inoperative; for the devil, being a bodiless intellect,
can deceive our souls only by means of fantasies and thoughts. David was speaking
about these provocations of the devil when he said: 'Early in the morning I destroyed
all the wicked of the earth, that I might cut off all evildoers from the city of the Lord'
(Ps 101:8. LXX); and Moses was referring to the act of assent to a provocation in
his words: 'You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods' (Exod. 23:53).
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, pp. 170-171)
216) Text 46 of On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination: 100 Texts
of Saint Diadochos of Photiki (400-486 AD)
When, as a result of visits from some of our brethren or some strangers,
we are fiercely attacked by thoughts of self-esteem, it is good to relax
our normal regime to a certain extent. In this way the demon will be
frustrated and driven out, regretting his attempt: moreover, we shall
properly fulfill the rule of love, and by relaxing our usual practice
we shall keep hidden the mystery of our self-control.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 267) Full Text; Google Text
217) Text 46 of For the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: 100 Texts
of Saint John of Karpathos (circa 680 AD)
How can someone with little or no faith be made to realize that
an ant grows wings, a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, and many
other strange and unexpected things happen in nature, so that in this
way he shakes off the sickness of unbelief and despair, himself acquires
wings, and buds in spiritual knowledge like a tree? 'I am He', says God,
who makes the dry tree flourish; I give life to the dry bones'
(cf Ezek. 17:24; 37: 1-14).
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 308)
218) Text 46 of On the Character of Men: 170 Texts
of Saint Anthony of Egypt (251-356 AD)
Those who scorn to grasp what is profitable and salutary
are considered to be ill. Those, on the other hand, who
comprehend the truth but insolently enjoy dispute, have an
intelligence that is dead; and their behavior has become brutish.
They do not know God and their soul has not been illumined.
— The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 335)
219) 46th Verse of Chapter 2 in Lankavatara Sutra:
Why are the lands shaped like the moon, the sun,
the Sumeru, the lotus, the swatika, and the lion? Pray tell me.
— The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD)
(translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 26,)
220) Names of Allah: 46th name is Al-Hakeem: The Wise,
The Wise, The Judge of Judges, The One who is correct in His doings.
221) Chapter 46 of Mohammed's Holy Koran is titled "Sandhills"
[46.1] Ha Mim.
[46.2] The revelation of the Book is from Allah, the Mighty, the Wise.
[46.3] We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them
two save with truth and (for) an appointed term; and those who disbelieve
turn aside from what they are warned of.
[46.4] Say: Have you considered what you call upon besides Allah? Show me
what they have created of the earth, or have they a share in the heavens?
Bring me a book before this or traces of knowledge, if you are truthful.
[46.13] Surely those who say, Our Lord is Allah, then they continue
on the right way, they shall have no fear nor shall they grieve.
[46.14] These are dwellers of the garden, abiding therein: a reward for what they did.
[46.24] So when they saw it as a cloud appearing in the sky advancing towards
their valleys, they said: This is a cloud which will give us rain. Nay! it is
what you sought to hasten on, a blast of wind in which is a painful punishment.
[46.30] They said: O our people! we have listened to a Book revealed after Musa
verifying that which is before it, guiding to the truth and to a right path:.
[46.33] Have they not considered that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth
and was not tired by their creation, is able to give life to the dead?
Aye! He has surely power over all things.
— Mohammed, Holy Koran Chapter 46 (7th century AD)
(translated by M. H. Shakir, Koran, 1983)
222) 46th Verse of Chapter 5 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
One ought to reject useless scratching, fidgeting, puttering, once
having learned the discipline of the Tathagatha and having feared it.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
V.46 having(Guarding of Total Awareness: Samprajanyaraksana) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 166)
223) 46th Verse of Chapter 6 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
Since the forest of sword-leaves and the birds of hell are
engendered by my own karma, why, then, be angry?
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
VI.46 (Perfection of Patience: Ksanti-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 177)
224) 46th Verse of Chapter 7 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
It follows that one should have zeal for goodness; that one should
practice it with ardor; and that having begun the rule of the
Vajradhvaja ["He who has the Thunderbolt (vajra) as his banner"]
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
VII.46 (Perfection of Strength: Virya-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 190)
225) 46th Verse of Chapter 9 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
If release is the result of the destruction of passion,
it should occur immediately thereafter; but it is seen
that those who are in that state still have the ability
to act, although without passion.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
IX.46 (Perfection of Wisdom: Prajña-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 215)
226) 46th Verse of Chapter 10 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
May the scholars (pandita) be honored, received,
and given alms. Let their lineage be pure; let it be
universally known and praised.
— Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
X.46 (Consummation: Parinamana) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 231)
227) Record 46 of Rinzai, aka Linji Yixuan (died 866):
One day Fuke was eating raw cabbage
before the meditation hall.
The master saw him and said:
"You have quite the air of an ass."
Fuke began to bray.
The master said: "The robber."
Fuke went away.
shouting "robber, robber."
— Rinzai (d. 866), The Zen Teaching of Rinzai
translated with notes by Irmgard Schloegl,
Shambhala, Berkeley, 1976, pp. 67-68
Image Source: Rinzai (greatthoughtstreasury.com)
Rinzai
228)
Koan 46 of Joshu aka Chao-Chou (778-897):
A monk asked: "The common people cherish riches.
What is it that the monk values?
Joshu said, "Quickly— shut your mouth."
The monk said,"Will that do, if I shut my mouth?"
Joshu said, "If you don't shut your mouth,
how can you get at it?"
 — Chao-Chou (778-897),
Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu
translated with commentary by Yoel Hoffman,
Autumn Press, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1978, p. 29
Joshu
229)
Record 46 of The Wan Ling Record of Zen Master Huang Po
Q: Is it true that the Sravakas can only merge their forms into
the formless sphere which still belongs to the transitory Triple World,
and that they are incapable of losing themselves utterly in Bodhi?
A: Yes. Form implies matter. Those saints are only proficient in casting
off worldly views and activities, by which means they escape from worldly
delusions and afflictions. They cannot lose themselves utterly in Bodhi;
thus, there is still the danger that demons may come and pluck them from
within the orbit of Bodhi itself. Aloofly seated in their forest dwellings,
they perceive the Bodhi-Mind but vaguely. Whereas those who are vowed
to become Bodhisattvas and who are already within the Bodhi of the Three
Worlds, neither reject nor grasp at anything. Non-grasping, it were vain to seek
them upon any plane; non-rejecting, demons will strive in vain to find them.
    Neverttheless, with the merest desire to attach yourselves to this or that,
a mental symbol is soon formed, such symbols in turn giving rise to all those
'sacred writings' which lead you back to undergo the various kinds of rebirth.
So let your symbolic conception be that of a void, for then the wordless teaching
of Zen will make itself apparent to you. Know only you must decide to eschew
all symbolizing whatever, for by this eschewal is 'symbolized' the Great Void in
which there is neither unity nor multiplicity— that Void which is not really void,
that Symbol which is no symbol. Then will Buddhas of all the vast world-systems
manifest themselves to you in a flash; you will recognize the hosts of squirming,
wriggling sentient beings as no more than shadows! Continents as innumerable
as grains of dust will seem no more to you than a single drop in the great ocean.
To you, the profoundest doctrines ever heard will seem but dreams and illusions.
You will recognize all minds as One and behold all things as One— including
those thousands of sacred books & myriads of pious commentaries! All of them are
just your One Mind. Could you but cease your groping after forms, all these true
perceptions would be yours! Therefore it is written: "Within the Thusness of the
One Mind, the various means to Enlightenment are no more than showy ornaments."
— Huang Po (d. 850)
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po (On the Transmission of Mind)
Translated by John Blofeld, Grove Press, New York, 1958, pp. 122-123
Image Source: Huang Po (1sphere1people.com






Huang Po
230)
Chapter XLVI How Brother Pacifico saw the soul of his brother,
Brother Umile, rise to heaven
    In the province of the Marches, after the death of St. Francis, were two
brothers in the Order. The name of one was Brother Umile, of the other,
Brother Pacifico, and both were men of of great sanctity and perfection.
    Brother Umile was in the shelter of Soffiano and there died; the other,
Brother Pacifico, was with another family of brothers at some distance from
him. As it pleased God, while Brother Pacifico was praying in a lonely place,
he was lifted up in ecstasy and saw the soul of his brother. Brother Umile,
then leaving his body, go straight to Heaven without any delay or hindrance.
— Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
The Little Flowers of St. Francis and Other Franciscan Writings
Translation by Serge Hughes, Mentor-Omega Book, NY, 1964, pp. 132-133


231) Case 46 of Mumonkan: Proceed On from the Top of the Pole
Sekiso Osho asked, "How can you proceed on further from the top of
a hundred-foot pole?" Another eminent teacher of old said, "You, who
sit on the top of a hundred-foot pole, although you have entered the
Way you are not yet genuine. Proceed on from the top of the pole, and
you will show your whole body in the ten directions."
Mumon's Comment:
If you go on further and turn your body about, no place is left where
you are not the master. But even so, tell me how will you go on further
from the top of a hundred-foot pole? Eh?
 Mumon's Verse:
He darkens the third eye of insight
And clings to the first mark on the scale.
Even though he may sacrifice his life,
He is only a blind man leading the blind.
Mumon Ekai; (1183-1260), Mumonkan, 46
(translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977, p. 128)
232) Case 46 of Hekiganroku: Kyosei's "Voice of the Raindrops"
Engo's Introduction: In a single action he transcends both
the ordinary and the holy. With a single word he cuts away all
complications and encumbrances. He walks the edge of an iceberg,
he treads the edge of a sword. Seated amid the totality of form
and sound, he rises above them. Leaving aside the freedom of such
subtle activity, tell me, what about finishing it in a moment?
See the following.
Main Subject: Kyosei asked a monk, "What is the noise outside?"
The monk said, "That is the voice of the raindrops."
Kyosei said, "Men's thinking is topsy-turvy
Deluded by their own selves, they pursue things."
The monk asked, "What about yourself?"
Kyosei said, "I was near it but am not deluded."
The monk asked, "What do you mean by 'near it but not deluded?'"
Kyosei said, "To say it in the sphere of realization may be easy,
but to say it in the sphere of transcendence is difficult."
Setcho's Verse:
The empty hall resounds with the voice of the raindrops.
Even a master fails to answer.
If you say you have turned the current,
You have no true understanding.
Understanding? No understanding?.
Misty with rain, the northern and southern mountains.
 Setcho (980-1052), Hekiganroku, 46 (Blue Cliff Records)
(translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977, pp. 273-274)
233) Chang Tsai (1020-1077), Correcting Youthful Ignorance, Section 46:
If one removes even the slightest evil, goodness will become
his nature. If he fails to detect evil completely, although his
nature is good, it will become impure..
 (Wing-Tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 1963, p. 513)
234) Ch'eng Hao (1032-1085), Selected Sayings, "On Understanding
the Nature of Jen (Humanity)" Section 46:
"Seriousness is to straighten one's internal life and righteousness
is to square one's external life." This is the way to unify internal and
external life. (The Buddhist way of internal & external life is incomplete).
(Wing-Tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 1963, p. 538)
235) Ch'eng I (1033-1107), Selected Sayings, Section 46:
Someone asked: Is it necessary to exert the will in order to be serious?
Answer: In the beginning, how can one not exert the will? If it
is possible not to exert the will, then there will be nothing.
Further question: Is seriousness not tranquillity?
Answer: As soon as you speak of tranquillity, you fall into
the doctrine of Buddhism. Don't use the word "tranquillity".
Only use the word "seriousness". As soon as you use use the word
"tranquillity" you imply forgetfulness. Mencius said, "Always be
doing something without expectation, Let the mind not forget its
objective, but let there be no artificial effort to help it grow.
Always be doing something means [presence of] mind.
Not to forget and not to expect means not to help it grow."
(Wing-Tsit Chan, A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, 1963, p. 563)
236) Section 46 of Chu Hsi's Chin-ssu lu:
Someone asked: To what does the mind adhere before it is acted on?
Answer: "Hold it fast and you preserve it. Let it go and you lose it.
It comes in and goes out at no definite time and without anyone's
knowing its direction. How will it look for a place to adhere to?
One has only to hold it fast. the way to hold it fast is to straighten
the internal life with seriousness."
— Chu Hsi (1130-1200), Reflections on Things at Hand (Chin-ssu lu)
Chapter IV: Preserving One's Mind & Nourshing One's Nature
translated by Wing-Tsit Chan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1967, p. 143
237)
Koan 46 of Master Kido's Every End Exposed
"Spit at Buddha"
Once there was a monk who accompanied a Buddhist priest [not of Zen]
to a Buddhist temple. There the monk spat at the statue of Buddha.
The priest said, "You have little sense of propriety! Why do you spit
at Buddha?" The monk said, "Show me the place where there is no
Buddha so that I can spit there." The priest was speechless.
Master Kido
A fierce fellow indeed!.
Master Hakuin
It is better not to slander him
Plain Saying
What a blind wretch!.

Kido Chigu
(1185-1269)
aka Xutang Zhiyu
NOTE: Kido's comment and Hakuin's substitute phrase suggest
the praise of the monk, whereas the plain saying refers to
the priest's lack of understanding. The monk's behavior
however, is somewhat artificial. The identical theme of
the "sameness" of Buddha & the world is suggested in koan 53,
"Tell Me Where I Can Sit" in a more natural way.
Master Kido (1189-1269), Koan 46,
Every End Exposed (100 Koans
of Master Kido with the Answers of Hakuin-Zen)
Translated with Commentary by Yoel Hoffman,
Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1977, p. 69
Image Source: Kido (terebess.hu)
238)
Letter 46 (De anima: On the Soul) of Letters of Marsilio Ficino:
Marsilio Ficino to Giovanni Francesco Ippoliti, Count of Gazzoldo.
"On the Platonic nature, instruction, and function of a philosopher"
Since philosophy is defined by all men as love of wisdom (the very name
introduced by Pythagoras' supports this) and wisdom is the contemplation
of the divine, then certainly the purpose of philosophy is knowledge of
the divine. This our Plato testifies in the Seventh book of The Republic
where he says that true philosophy is the ascent from the lowest to
the highest... The philosopher must be magnanimous and courageous,
so that he neither fears death nor longs for empty glory... Thus philosophy
is the ascent of the mind from the lowest regions to the highest, and from
darkness to light. Its origin is an impulse of the divine mind, and its end
is the possession of the highest good.
— Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), Letter to Giovanni Francesco Ippoliti
Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino,
Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 1996, pp. 86-89
Marsilio Ficino
(1433-1499)
239)
Section 46 of Wang Yang Ming's Instructions for Practical Living:
[The Teacher said] "The explanation of Change in the sentence 'In the first
nine [or the lowest line of the hexagram which is symbolic of the positive
element yang, one sees its subject as] the dragon [which is also symbolic of yang]
lying in the deep and therefore [one should lie low and be on guard] for it is not
time for action. The symbol is [not the dragon, as former theories have held, but]
the lowest line. The operation of Change [is not to be found elsewhere but]
right in the line itself in accordance with which changes take place. To tell
fortune or misfortune according to the Change is [not to use the dragon as the
symbol and merely the phrase 'not the time for action' as the explanation but]
to use the whole sentence as explanation."
— Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529),
Instructions for Practical Living or Ch'uan-hsi lu (1518), I.46
translated by Wing-tsit Chan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1963, p. 39
Wang Yang Ming
Harvard Fogg Museum
240)
Page 46 of The Book of Angelus Silesius (1976):
Most sacred:
the Void's immobility
that makes all move,
retaining its tranquillity

At the end of that
which we call history
God is who IS:
for Him there is no past
nor future yet to be.
— Angelus Silesius (1624-1677),
The Book of Angelus Silesius,
(translated from German by Frederick Franck,
Vintage Books, New York, 1976, p. 46)
Angelus Silesius
aka Johannes Scheffler
241)
Hymn 46 of The Cherubinic Wanderer of Angelus Silesius (1657):
Astonishment at God's familiarity
It is a wonderment that I,
Who am but dust and ash and clod,
Should dare to make myself the friend
And very hail-fellow of God!
— Angelus Silesius (1624-1677),
The Cherubinic Wanderer (1657),
(translated from German by J.E. Crawford Flitch (1932)
242)
46th Section of Swedenborg's Worlds in Space (1758):
I was allowed to associate for a longer period
with the spirits. and angels of the planet Jupiter
than with those from the other planets. I have
therefore more to report about the way they
and the inhabitants of that planet live. I had
many indications, and it was told me from
heaven, that these spirits were from that place.
— Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772),
The Worlds in Space, 46
(translated by John Chadwick,
Swedenborg Society, London, 1997, p. 29)
Image Source: Swedenborg (publicdomainreview.org)
Emanuel Swedenborg
(1688-1772)
243)
Section 46 of Sage Ninomiya's Evening Talks:
"Practical Application of Learning"—
Though scholars are good in commenting on passages in books written
by sages, they do not know how to put into practical use the teachings
elucidated in them. They speak a great deal about benevolence, justice
and so forth, but as they stop there, their words do no good to society.
They are merely readers of books & are no better than Buddhist noviciates
who recite sutras without understanding or practising what they teach.
An ancient maxim has it that one shall be circumspect in dealing with
weights and measures and shall be well versed in laws and prohibitions.
This is a matter of great importance. As people consider it concerns
the state only, it does not prove beneficial to them. Leave for a while
such weighty matters as the State alone, but it is important for each
individual person to be circumspect in dealing with weights & measures
and to be well versed in the laws and prohibitions of his househld.
This is the fountain head of morality and economy.
— Sontoku Ninomiya (1787-1856),
Sage Ninomiya's Evening Talks, Section 46
translated by Isoh Yamagata,
The Tokuno Kyokai, Tokyo, 1937, pp. 96-97
Sontoku Ninomiya
(1787-1856)
244) Aphorism 46 of Franklin Merrell-Wolff's
Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object (1973)
When consciousness is attached to objects
it is restricted through the forms imposed by
the world-containing Space, by Time, and by Law.

Commentaries: Space, Time, and Law condition
the contents of conciousness but not the consciousness
itself. And when any center of consiousness is attached to,
and thus identified with, contents or objects, it seems to
be likewise conditioned. Thus to the extent man is so attached,
he is not free but is determined. The doctrine of determinism,
therefore, does express a part truth, i.e., a truth that has
pragmatic but not transcendental validity. So he who feels
himself wholly conditioned is highly attached. But the concrete
consciousness may be in a state that is anything from slightly
to highly detached, and thus have a corresponding experience
of freedom, which we may view as determination through
the Subject, rather than conditioning through the Object or
environment. Mankind as a whole knows little genuine freedom,
but lives conditioned in part by the objective enviroment and
in part by psychical factors, which are none the less objective
because of being subtle. But authentic freedom is possible.
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
Franklin Merrell-Wolff
(1887-1985)
— Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887-1985),
Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object
(Reflections on the Nature of Transcendental Consciousness)
(Julian Press, NY, 1973, p. 113, p. 247)
245)

— Jack Kerouac
(1922-1969)
 The Scripture of
the Golden Eternity
Totem/Corinth Book,
New York, 1970, p. 42
 Verse 46 in Jack Kerouac's Sutra,
Scripture of the Golden Eternity (1960):
O everlasting Eternity, all things and all truth laws are no-things,
in three ways, which is the same way: AS THINGS OF TIME they dont exist
because there is no furthest atom than can be found or weighed or grasped,
it is emptiness through and through, matter and empty space too. AS THINGS
OF MIND they dont exist, because the mind that conceives and makes them out
does so by seeing, hearing touching, smelling, tasting, and mentally-noticing
and without this mind they would not be seen or heard or felt or smelled or
tasted or mentally-noticed, they are discriminated that which they're not
necessarily by imaginary judgments of the mind, they are actually dependent
on the mind that makes them out, by themselves they are no-things, they are
really mental, seen only of the mind, they are really empty visions of the mind,
heaven is a vision, everything is a vision. What does it mean that I am in this
endless universe thinking I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace
of earth, but actually empty & awake throughout the emptiness & awakedness
of everything? It means that I am empty & awake, knowing that I am empty
and awake, and that there's no difference between me & anything else.
It means that I have attained to that which everything is.
246) Chapter 46 of Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened (1963) is titled "Explanations, 4":
Relative Reality
It will readily be seen that where there is no such thing as reality there can be
nothing that is relative to reality, and so nothing that can be called 'relative reality'.
It is indeed a nonsensical term, for the only thing that can be relative to nothing is
nothing. No doubt we are that: only so-conceived can the expression have any sense.
    As relative to a non-existent reality our phenomenal world cannot be anything at
all and so-calling it, calling it relative, means that our eyes are looking in the wrong
direction, and are holding us in bondage. The only way out of bondage is by
understanding that nothing is, no object whatever, not even ourselves as objects.
    In that apparent void we may then be enabled to see ourselves and to perceive that what
we and our objective world could be, all we and our dream of living could possibly be,
that which alone perhaps we are as awakened dreamers, is that so-called subjectivity,
or noumenon, which is non-manifestation perceiving itself as manifested phenomena.
— Wei Wu Wei (1895-1986), Ask the Awakened (1965), p. 103 (Archive, Ask the Awakened)
247)

        Paul Brunton
          (1898-1981)

Notebooks of Paul Brunton
Volume XVI, Paras #46
from various chapters
Volume 16:
Enlightened Mind,
Divine Mind
Larson Publications
Burdett, NY, 1988,
Part 1: pp. 9, 36, 156, 196;
Part 2: pp. 8, 44, 63
Part 3: p. 9, 19
Part 4: pp. 8, 26
• Poem: "What a Soap
Box Taught Me
About Sage & Sin"
before my first
meeting with PB
in Montreux
(8-30-1972)
• Visit with PB
at his home,
Corseaux sur Vevey
in September 1979
• PB Conversation
"Can a Cow Be
Self-Realized?" (10-26-78) 		Para #46 from Volume 16, Part 1
of Paul Brunton's Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind—
Notebooks: "World-Mind in Individual Mind—
    The teachings of Jesus were not based on any of the ancient doctrines— that is,
those of the Jews, Egyptians, or Indians. They were entirely Self-inspired. (1.46)
    Illumination is not a result which follows moral purification and emotional
discipline. These things are necessary but only preparatory. It is a result which
follows conscious attempts to seek the Real & discard the illusory. This discrimination
will show itself in the kind of values that are attached to the world, in the thinking
reflections that are made about the world, & in the deliberate rejection of ego that takes
place during meditation. It begins with either the intellect as enquiry, or the feelings
as world-weariness, but it passes gradually into the whole life of the individual, (2.46)
    No mother asks why she should help her child or concern herself with the
well-being of her husband. She identifies herself with them & takes it for granted
that their interests are her own. Similarly, the illuminate takes it for granted that
the interests of all mankind are his own & others are his family. (4.46)
    It is easy to be humble when obscurity, poverty, personal ugliness,
or menial position forces it upon a man or woman. But to show this quality
when every visitor bows low before him— that is the test! (5.46)
Para #46 from Volume 16, Part 2 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "World-Idea"—
    The World-Idea is perfect at every point
and every stage of its eternal unfoldment. (1.46)
    The good and the evil are so mingled together that
it is futile to expect to find one without the other. (3.46)
    It is questionable whether the advantages of being a human
creature are outweighed by the disadvantages. The Buddhists think they are,
the Epicureans think they are not, but the Vedantins think man is an immensely
fortunate creature. Why? Simply because he may use his human faculties to
transcend his present level and, as they call it, "realize himself.". (4.46)
Para #46 from Volume 16, Part 3 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "World-Mind"—
    If God were not a mystery He would not be God. Men who claim to
know Him need semantic correction; this said, their experience may yet
be exceptional, elevating, and immaterialistic. But let God remain God,
incomprehensible and untouchable. (2.46)
    We describe this mysterious life-power as infinite because
so far as we know, so far as reason can guide us or intuition tell us,
so far as the great seers and prophets teach us, it is boundless in time
and space; we can trace no beginning to it and see no ending for it. (3.46)
Para #46 from Volume 16, Part 4 of Paul Brunton's Notebooks: "The Alone"—
    The World-Mind pervades the cosmos; Mind extends beyond it. (1.46)
    The Unfathomable Mystery of Mind will always remain. (2.46)
248) "Progress Takes Discipline" is Lesson 46
of Subramuniyaswami's Merging with Siva (1999):
    When you go into a meditation, decide first what you are going to meditate upon
and then stick with it. It is not advisable to habitually sit for meditation with no particular
goal or direction, for we often end up walking in mental or subconscious circles. We have
to avoid going into a meditation and then taking off into random or unintended directions,
for this then can lend new vigor & strength to uncomely states of mind. You have to be very
firm with yourself in meditation sessions. They are serious, not ponderous, but serious
applications of life's force. They are moments of transformation and discovery, and the same
care and earnestness of a mountain climber must be observed constantly if real progress and
not mere entertainment is the goal. In the very same way, in the external world, if you begin
something, you finish it. If you are working on a project creatively, you maintain your efforts
until you bring it to a conclusion. It is such people who become truly successful in meditation.
    You can learn to meditate extremely well, but will be unsuccessful if you don't approach it in an extremely
positive way, if you allow yourself to get sidetracked on the inside once the inside opens up and you can really
become aware of inner states. Care must be taken not to wander around in inner states of consciousness.
You can wander in extraneous, unproductive areas for a long, long time.
    So, you have to be very, very firm with yourself when you begin a meditation so that you stay with it the way
you originally intended to do and perform each meditation the way you intended to perform it. This brings us
into discipline. Undisciplined people are generally people whom nobody can tell what to do. They won't listen.
They can't tell themselves what to do, and nobody else is going to tell them either! If you sincerely want to make
headway in meditation and continue to do so year after year after year, you have to approach it in a very positive,
systematic way. By not seeking or responding to discipline, you can learn to meditate fairly well, just as you can
learn to play the vina fairly well, but you will never go much farther than that.
    For many years I've seen hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people come and go, each one firmly
determined to go in and realize the Self, firmly determined to meditate and meditate well. Many did, up to a point.
Then they lost interest, became involved in the next social fad or just reached the depth equal to their ability to be
constant and well disciplined. They are not anyplace today, inside or outside, for they undoubtedly reached the
same barriers in their next pursuit and were compelled to seek another and yet another. I want to impress on you:
if you start a meditation, stay with it. Attack it positively. Go on and on and in and in and in.
— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics
Himalayan Academy, Kapaa, Hawaii, 1999, pp. 94-95.
249) Koan 46 of Zen Master Seung Sahn— Zen Master Ko Bong's Three Gates
1. The sun in the sky shines everywhere.
Why does a cloud obscure it?
2. Everyone has a shadow following them.
How can you not step on your shadow?
3. The whole universe is on fire.
Through what kind of samadhi can you escape being burned?
Commentary: The sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains
and waters— everything is complete. One mind appears,
big mistake. One mind disappears, then seeing and hearing
become the truth. Don't make anything.
Just see, just hear, just do it.
— Seung Sahn (1927-2004),
The Whole World Is A Single Flower
365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life,
Tuttle, Boston, 1992, p. 38

46 in Poetry & Literature
250) Poem 46 of Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101)
is titled "At Twilight, Fine Rain Was Still Falling" (1074):
At twilight, fine rain was still falling,
the night hushed and windless, the cold getting worse.
The bedclothes felt as though they'd been drenched;
I didn't know the courtyard was piled with drifts.
Fifth watch: dawn light colors the study curtains;
under a half moon, the cold rustle of painted eaves.
I'll sweep North Terrace, have a look at Horse Ear Hill,
two peaks not yet shrouded in snow.

— translated by Burton Watson,
Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o,
Copper Canyon Press, 1994, p. 64)
Su Tung-p'o
(1036-1101)
251) Verse 46 of Rubáiyát, of Omar Khayyam (1048-1122):
And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
 (translated by Edward Fitzgerald, London, 1st Ed. 1859, 2nd Ed. 1868)
252) Verse 46 of Rumi's Daylight
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.
As the Prophet said,
"The faithful are mirrors to one another."
— Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273),
Mathnawi, I.1319; 1328, Rumi Daylight,
(Translated Camille & Kabir Helmminski, 1999, p. 39)
Rumi
(1207-1273)
253)
Dante's journey in 46th line of Purgatorio:
Son le leggi d'abisso così rotte?
o è mutato in ciel novo consiglio,
che, dannati, venite a le mie grotte?
 		he laws of the abyss— have they been broken?
Or has a new, a changed decree in Heaven
let you, though damned, approach my rocky slopes?
Purgatorio I.46-48 (Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984)
254)

Dante's journey in 46th line of Paradiso:
quando Beatrice in sul sinistro fianco
vidi rivolta e riguardar nel sole:
aguglia sì non li s'affisse unquanco.
 		was dark— when I saw Beatrice turn round
and left, that she might see the sun: no eagle
has ever stared so steadily at it.
Paradiso I.46-48 (Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984)
Image Source: Mexico #C308 airmail: Dante (issued 11-23-1965)
honoring the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth (colnect.com)
255) Verse 46 of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master:
is "The Vintage Man"
The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one
Is
The novice
Will often lay down his tool
Or brush
Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table
And helplessly smash the easel and
Jade.
Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone
And keeps on
Sculpting
Light.


Hafiz
(1320-1389)
— Hafiz (1320-1389)
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master, Verse 46
translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Press, NY, 1999, p. 77
256) Line 46 from the Pearl Poet's Pearl: "No less in their scent my sense caught"
Q3if hit wat3 semly on to sene,
A fayr reflayr 3et fro hit flot.
Þer wonys þat worþyly, I wot and wene,
My precious perle wythouten spot.
Bifore þat spot my honde I spenned
 		Though they were seemly to be seen
No less in their scent my sense caught;
And there that jewel long has been,
My precious pearl without a spot.
Before that spot I clasped my hand,
Pearl (c. 1370-1400) Lines 45-49
(Ed. Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron, 1987, p. 59)
(This Pearl translation: by Bill Stanton, another by Vernon Eller)
257) Line 46 from the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
With all the meat and the mirth that men could devise,
such gaiety and glee, glorious to hear,
Brave din by day, dancing by night,
High were their hearts in the halls and chambers,
These lords and these ladies, for life was sweet.
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400) Lines 45-49
Translated by Marie Borroff, Norton, NY, 2010, p. 4 (Part I)
258)
Poem 46 of Kabir's 100 Poems of Kabir:
O Sadhu! purify your body in the simple way,
As the seed is within the banyan tree,
    and within the seed are the flowers,
    the fruits, and the shade;
So the germ is within the body, and
    within that germ is the body again.
The fire, the air, the water, the earth,
    and the aether; you cannot have
O Kazi, O Pundit, consider it well:
    what is there that is not in the soul?
Kabir says: "Listen to the Word,
    the Truth, which is your essence.
    He speaks the Word to Himself:
    and He Himself is the Creator.".
 — Kabir (1398-1518),
100 Poems of Kabir, Poem XLVI
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore,
assisted by Evelyn Underhill,
Macmillan & Co., London, 1915, pp. 52-53
India #237 Kabir
(issued Oct. 1, 1952)
259) Chapter 46 of Wu Ch'eng-en The Journey to the West:
Heresy flaunts its strength to mock orthodoxy;
Mind Monkey in epiphany slays the deviates
When the king saw Pilgrim Sun's ability to summon dragons and command sages,
he immediately applied his treasure seal to the travel rescript...
The Daoists Tiger-Strength Great Immortal and Deer Strength Great Immortal
challenged Pilgrim Monkey, Tang Monk, & Sha Monk to feats in cloud meditation,
in which Tang Monk won. Then to telepathy contest, guessing item in a chest—
The empress placed her blouse & cosmic shirt. Monkey changed himself into a cricket,
flew inside the chest and changed them to worn-out cassock, which Tang Monk guessed
correctly (p. 303). The king placed a giant peach inside the chest, which Monkey
converted to a peach pit. Again Tang Monk guessed right (p. 304). Next they put
a young lad inside the chest, which Monkey changed into a Buddhist monk with
shaven head and chanting "Budhha". Again Tang Monk was right. (pp. 305-306).
Tiger Immortal challenged Pilgrim to martial arts, that was Monkey's specialty—

Sever my arms, I still can beat you up!
My legs amputated, I still can walk.
My belly ripped open, will heal again.
Smooth and snug as a wonton people make:
A tiny pinch and it's completely formed.
To bathe in boiling oil is easier still:
Like warm liquid cleanse me of dirt it will." (p. 307)

Pilgrim Monkey defeated Daoist Tiger Immortal in the head-cutting trial (p. 308),
Deer Immortal in stomach-cutting (p. 309), and Goat-Strength Great Immortal in
the boiling oil cauldron contests (pp. 310-313). The king gave him the rewards (p. 314)
Wu Ch'eng-en
(1500-1582)


Journey to the West
Volume 2
— Wu Ch'eng-en (1500-1582),
The Journey to the West or Hsi-yu chi (1518), Volume 2, Chapter 46
(translated by Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 300-314)
260) "Merits of the heart's and the eyes' of the beloved"
in 46th Sonnet of William Shakespeare:
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part:
    As thus: mine eye's due is thine outward part,
    And my heart's right, thine inward love of heart.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Sonnets XLVI, Commentary
Hungary CB3 William Shakespeare
(issued October 16, 1948)
261)
46th Haiku of Basho's Haiku (1678):
stars in my eyes
wishing to see blossoms
on weeping cherries
 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Basho: The Complete Haiku, Haiku 46
(translated by Jane Reichhold,
Kodansha International, Tokyo, 2008, p. 31)
Basho
(1644-1694)
262)
"While with an eye made quiet by the power"
in Line 46 of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey":
Of all this unintelligible world,
Is lightened:— that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
 William Wordsworth (1770-1850),
"Tintern Abbey" (1798), Lines 40-49

William Wordsworth
by Benjamin R. Haydon
263)
"This drear, accursed masonry," in Line 46
of Goethe's Faust:
Ah, me! this dungeon still I see,
This drear, accursed masonry,
Whwere even the welcome daylight stains,
But duskly through the painted panes,
Hemmed in by many a toppling heap
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
Faust (1806), Part I, Act I, Scene 1, Lines 45-49
(translated by Bayard Taylor, 1870,
Modern Library, New York, 1950, p. 16)
Germany B307: Goethe
(issued 8-28-1949)
264) Line 46 of Byron's "The Prisoner of Chillon":
"When my last brother droop'd and died,"
When my last brother droop'd and died,
And I lay living by his side.
They chain'd us each to a column stone,
And we were three— yet, each alone;
We could not move a single pace,
We could not see each other's face,
Castle of Chillon
Montreux, Switzerland
— Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
"The Prisoner of Chillon" (1816), Lines 46-51
265) "They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve"
in Line 46 of John Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes":
They told her how, upon St. Agnes' Eve,
Young virgins might have visions of delight,
And soft adorings from their loves receive
Upon the honey'd middle of the night,
If ceremonies due they did aright;
 — John Keats (1795-1821),
"The Eve of St. Agnes" (1820), Lines 46-50
The Complete Poems of John Keats, Modern Library, NY, 1994, p. 174
266) Chapter 46 of Melville's Moby-Dick (1851):
Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and
actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed
ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may
have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery
whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
Or at least if this were otherwise, there were not wanting other motives much more
influential with him. It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his
monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly
extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew
by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale
would prove to be the hated one he hunted.thing of that sort in the wind... For all these
reasons then, and others perhaps too analytic to be verbally developed here, Ahab plainly
saw that he must still in a good degree continue true to the natural, nominal purpose of
the Pequod's voyage; observe all customary usages; and not only that, but force himself
to evince all his well known passionate interest in the general pursuit of his profession.
Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three mastheads and
admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit reporting even a porpoise.
This vigilance was not long without reward.
— Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick, Chapter 46: Surmises
267) 46th Poem of Emily Dickinson (1858):
I keep my pledge.
I was not called—
Death did not notice me.
I bring my Rose.
I plight again,
By every sainted Bee—
By Daisy called from hillside—
by Bobolink from lane.
Blossom and I—
Her oath, and mine—
Will surely come again.
— Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by Thomas H. Johnson, 1955), p. 26
268) 46th New Poem of Emily Dickinson:
Nature, seems it to myself, plays without a friend.
— Emily Dickinson (Letter 319, June 9, 1866)
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by William H. Shurr, University of North Carolin Press, 1993, p. 23)
269) "strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance;" in Line 46
of Walt Whitman's Passage to India (1871):
I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Eugenie's leading the van;
I mark, from on deck, the strange landscape, the pure sky, the level sand in the distance;
I pass swiftly the picturesque groups, the workmen gather'd,
The gigantic dredging machines.
— Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Passage to India Section 3, Lines 45-48
From Leaves of Grass
The "Death-Bed" Edition, Modern Library,
Random House, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 512)
270)
46th Verse in Tagore's Gitanjali:

I know not from what distant time thou art ever coming nearer to meet me.
Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye.
In many a morning and eve thy footsteps have been heard and thy
messenger has come within my heart and called me in secret.
I know not why to-day my life is all astir, and a feeling
of tremulous joy is passing through my heart.
It is as if the time were come to wind up my work, and I feel
in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence.

— Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), Verse 46
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941)
271) Line 46 of Rilke's Duino Elegies I [1923]
"Yes, springtime needed you!":
Ja, die Frühlinge brauchten dich wohl.
Es muteten manche Sterne dir zu,
dass du sie spürtest. Es hob sich
eine Woge heran im Vergangenen,
oder da du vorüberkamst
am geöffneten Fenster,.
 Yes, springtime needed you!
The very stars, row on row,
sparkled for your attention.
From bygone days a wave rolled
or a violin yielded itself as you
wandered by some open window.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926),
Duino Elegies, I.46-50
(translated by Robert Hunter)
Hulogosi, Devon, UK, 1993
(Other translations: Edward Snow)
272)
46th Page of A.E.'s Song and Its Fountains (1932)
Listen to his song. A voice came from
the depth chanting a sad knowledge:

What of all the will to do?
It has vanished long ago.
For a dream-shaft pierced it through
From the unknown archer's bow.

What of all the soul to think?
Someone offered it a cup,
Filled with a divine drink
And the flame has burned it up..

What of all the hope to climb?
Only in the self we grope
To the misty end of time.
Truth has put an end to hope.

What of all the heart to love?
Sadder than for will or soul,
No light lured it on above.
Love has found itself the whole.
— A.E. aka George William Russell (1867-1935)
Larson Publications, Burdett, New York, 1991, Ch. 5, p. 46
Photo Source: A.E. (wikipedia.org)
A.E. (1867-1935)
273)
46th Page lines in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, (12 samples):
Small wonder He'll Cheat E'erawan
    our local lads nicknamed him (46.1)
When Chimpden first took the floor (46.2)
(Chorus) With his bucketshop store (46.3)
Down Bargain weg. Lower. (46.4)
So snug he was in his hotel premises sumptuous (46.5)
But soon we'll bonfire all his trash, tricks and trumpery (46.6)
And'tis short till sheriff Clancy'll be winding up his unlimited (46.7)
It was during some fresh water garden pumping (46.27)
Or, according to the Nursing Mirror,
    while admiring the monkeys (46.28-29)
That our heavyweight heathen Humpharey (46.30)
Made bold a maid to woo (46.31)
(Chorus) Woohoo, what'll she doo! (46.32)
— James Joyce (1882-1941), Finnegans Wake, (1939), p. 46

James Joyce
(1882-1941)
274) Sonnet 46 in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Collected Sonnets (1941)
Sonnets from Ungrafted Tree
So she came back into his house again
And watched beside his bed until he died,
Loving him not at all. The winter rain
Splashed in the painted butter-tub outside,
Where once her red geraniums had stood,
Where still their rotted stalks were to be seen;
The thin log snapped; and she went out for wood,
Bareheaded, running the few steps between
The house and shed; there, from the sodden eaves
Blown back and forth on ragged ends of twine,
Saw the dejected creeping-jinny vine,
(And one, big-aproned, blithe, with stiff blue sleeves
Rolled to the shoulder that warm day in spring,
Who planted seeds, musing ahead to their far blossoming).

— Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950),
Sonnet 46, Collected Poems,
Harper Perennial, New York, 2011, page 606
Sonnet XLVI from The Harp-Weaver (1923)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
275) Poem 46 is "I'm not of those"
in Anna Akhmatova's Selected Poems (2006)
I'm not of those who left their country
For wolves to tear it limb from limb.
Their flattery does not touch me.
I will not give my songs to them..

Yet I can take the exile's part,
I pity all among the dead.
Wanderer, your path is dark,
Wormwood is the stranger's bread.

But here in the flames, the stench,
The murk, where what remains
Of youth is dying, we don't flinch
As the blows strike us, again and again.

And we know there'll be a reckoning,
An account for every hour... There's
Nobody simpler than us, or with
More pride, or fewer tears.

— Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966),
Poem 46 (1922), Selected Poems
translated by D.M. Thomas,
Penguin Classics, NY, 2006, pp. 52-53


Anna Akhmatova
(1889-1966)
276) e. e. cummings, 1x1 (1944)
Poem XLVI

open your heart:
i'll give you a treasure
of tiniest world
a piece of forever with

summitless younger than
angels are mountains
rivery forests
towerful towns(queen

poet king float
sprout heroes of moonstar
flutter to and
swim blossoms of person)through

musical shadows while hunted
by daemons
seethe luminous
leopards(on wingfeet of thingfear)

come ships go
snowily sailing
perfect silence.
Absolute ocean


e. e. cummings
(1894-1962),
1x1 (1958), "Poem 46"
From E.E. Cummings,
Complete Poems 1904-1962
Edited by George J. Firmage,
Liveright, New York, 1991, p. 586
277) e. e. cummings published 95 Poems in 1958 (Norton).
This was the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime.
Poem 46

never could anyone
who simply lives to die
dream that your valentine
makes happier me than i

but always everything
which only dies to grow
can guess and as for spring
she'll be the first to know
 		95 Poems

e. e. cummings
(1894-1962),
95 Poems (1958), "Poem 46"
From E.E. Cummings,
Complete Poems 1904-1962
Edited by George J. Firmage,
Liveright, New York,1991, p. 717
278) e. e. cummings, 73 Poems (1963)
Poem 46
out of midsummer's blazing most not night
as floats a more than day whose sun is moon,
and our(from inexistence moving)sweet
earth puts on immortality again

—her murdered selves exchanging swiftly for
the deathlessness who's beauty:reoccurs
so magically,farthest becomes near
(one silent pasture,all a heartbeat dares;

that mountain,any god)while leaf twig limb
ask every question time can't answer:and
such vivid nothing as green meteors swim
signals all some world's millionary mind

never may partly guess—thus,my love,to
merely what dying must call life are you
— e. e. cummings (1894-1962), 73 Poems (1963), "Poem 46", Liveright, New York, 2003, p. 60;
Complete Poems 1904-1962, Edited by George
J. Firmage, Liveright, New York,1991, p. 818

279) Sonnet 46 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)
Of all the stars I admired, drenched
in various rivers and mists,
I chose only the one I love.
Since then I sleep with the night.

Of all the waves, one wave and another wave,
green sea, green chill, branchings of green,
I chose only the one wave,
the indivisible wave of your body.

All the waterdrops, all the roots,
all the threads of light gathered to me here;
they came to me sooner or later.

I wanted your hair, all for myself.
From all the graces my homeland offered
I chose only your savage heart.
Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)
Nobel Prize 1971
Love Sonnet XLVI, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1960 (trans. Stephen Tapscott, 1986, p. 99)
280)
Poem 46 of The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch:
is "The History of Jazz"—
The leaves of blue came drfting down.
Madeleine Reierbacher was reading Lorna Doone...
No one had ever herd anything comparble to the playing of Madeleine Reierbacher. What a jazz musician! The pianist missed his beats because he was so excited. The drummer stared out of the window in ecstasy at the yellow wooden trees. The orchestra played "September in the Rain", "Mugging", and "I'm Full of Love". Madeleine Reierbacher rolled up her sleeves; she picked up her horn; she played "Blues in the Rain". It was the best jazz anyone had ever heard. It was mentioned in the newspapers. St. Louis!
—Kenneth Koch, (1925-2002)
The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006, pp. 102-104
(Note: Koch was my Freshman English Professor at Columbia, 1959-60; He wasn't published then,but became a well known poet of the N.Y. School. He taught children to write poetry in NYC; inspired my CPITS teaching)
Kenneth Koch
(1925-2002)
281) Poem 46 in Tomas Tranströmer's The Half-Finished Heaven (1987)
(There are 70 poems in this edition; Poem 46 is "At Funchal")
At Funchal
(Island of Madeira)

On the beach there's a seafood place, simple, a shack
thrown up by survivors of the shipwreck. Many turn
back at the door, but not the sea winds...
We walk in swirls of human beings, we are cuffed
excitedly around kindly, among soft tyrannies, everyone
chatters in the foreign tongue. "No man is an island."
We gain strength from them, but also from ourselves.
From what is inside that the other person can't see.
That which can only meet itself. The innermost paradox,
the underground garage flowers, the vent toward the good
dark. A drink that bubbles in an empty glass. An amplifier
that magnifies silence. A path that grows over and after
every step. A book that can only be read in the dark.

— Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven
Chosen & Translated by Robert Bly
Graywolf Press, Minneapolis 2001, pp. 62-63


Tomas Tranströmer
(1931-2015)
Nobel Prize 2011
282) There are 207 poems in Robert Creeley's Selected Poems, 1945-2005 (2008)
Poem #46 is "The Hill"—

It is some time since I have been
to what it was had once turned me backwards,
and made my head into
a cruel instrument.

It is simple
to confess. Then done,
to walk away, walk away,
to come again.

But that form, I must answer,
is dead in me, completely,
and I will not allow it
to reappear—

Saith perversity, the willful,
the magnanimous cruelty,
which is in me
like a hill.

Robert Creeley (1926-2005),
Selected Poems, 1945-2005
    University of California Press,
Berkeley, 2008, p. 74
283) There are 284 poems in Robert Bly's Stealing Sugar from the Castle (2013)
Poem #46 is "Warning to the Reader"
    Sometimes farm granaries become especially beautiful when
all the oats or wheat are gone, and wind has swept the rough floor
clean. Standing inside, we see around us, coming in through the
cracks between shrunken wall boards, bands or strips of sunlight.
So in a poem about imprisonment, one sees a little light.
    But how many birds have died trapped in these granaries. The
bird, seeing freedom in the light, flutters up the walls and falls back
again and again. The way out is where the rats enter and leave; but
the rat's hole is low to the floor. Writers, be careful then by showing
the sunlight on the walls not to promise the anxious and panicky
blackbirds a way out!
    I say to the reader, beware. Readers who love poems of light may
sit hunched in the corner with nothing in their gizzards for four
days, light failing, the eyes glazed... They may end as a mound of
feathers and a skull on the open boardwood floor...
— Robert Bly (born 12-23-1926)
Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected & New Poems 1950-2013
W.W. Norton & Co., New York, p. 72
(2008 Stanford Workshops, Reading)
284) There are 46 poems in Mary Oliver's
Evidence (2009), 46th poem is "Another Summer Begins"
Summer begins again.
How many
do I still have?
Not a worthy question,

I imagine.
Hope is one thing,
gratitude another
and sufficient

unto itself.
the white blossoms of the shad
have opened
because it is their time

to open,
the mockingbird
is raving
in the thornbush.

How did it come to be
that I am no longer young
and the world
that keeps time

in its own way
has just been born?
I don't have the answers
and anyway I have become suspicious

of such questions,
and as for hope,
that tender advisement,
even that

I'm going to leave behind.
I'm just going to put on
my jacket, my boots,
I'm just going to go out

to sleep
all this night
in some unnamed, flowered corner
of the pasture.


Mary Oliver
(1935-2019)
— Mary Oliver (1935-2019),
    Evidence,
    Beacon Press, Boston, 2009, pp. 73-74
285) There are 229 poems in Kay Ryan's
The Best of It (2010), 46th poem—
Les Natures Profondement Bonnes Sont Toujours Indecises
One strong squirt
of will and the world
fills with direction.
All roads go Roman.
The path not taken
is not kept open.
There is suddenly
a rational waterworks
system. Things are done
as no indecisive person
could do them. Still
there is a population
that likes mistakes and
indecision, guarding
atavisms and anatomical
sports, the hips of snakes,
the wings of the horse.
They do not argue that
this is useful. They
make no mention of the
gene pool. They just
like to think about
these things. They
make them comfortable.

Kay Ryan,
US Poet Laureate
2008-2010
— Kay Ryan (born 9-21-1945),
    The Best of It (New & Selected Poems),
    Grove Press, NY, 2010, p. 56
    from Flamingo Watching (1994)
    (2010 Stanford Workshops)
286)
In James Richardson's By the Numbers (2010)
the poem "Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphroisms
and Ten-Second Essays" has 170 aphroisms.

Aphroism 46
How badly I'd like to believe that my cherished
moderation and heavily defended calm could
rule the world. But as things are, somebody
has to feel too much, somebody has to speak
too loud, somebody has to be completely unreasonable.

— James Richardson (born 1-1-1950),
    By the Numbers, Copper Canyon Press,
    Port Townsend, WA, 2010, p. 36

James Richardson
287)
There are 173 poems in Jane Hirshfield's
Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994)
(43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
46th poem is "Meditating at Midnight"
by Zhou Xuanjing (12th century),
Meditating at midnight
Meditating at noon
A mind like autumn
Comes to the Way's deep heart,
Under motionless waves,
fish and dragons freely leap.
In the sky without limits,
Only the moonlight stays.
(translated by Thomas Cleary,
Immortal Sisters, (1996)
— Jane Hirshfield (born 2-24-1953),
    Editor of Women in Praise of the Sacred
    (43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
    HarperCollins Publishers, NY, 1994, p. 75
Jane Hirshfield
288) Numerology: words whose letters add up to 46

EIGHTEEN: 5 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 2 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 46

LABYRINTH: 3 + 1 + 2 + 7 + 9 + + 9 + 5 + 2 + 8 = 46

MIRROR: 4 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 6 + 9 = 46

PAINTINGS: 7 + 1 + 7 + 5 + 2 + 9 + 5 + 7 + 1 = 46

PHOENIX: 7 + 8 + 6 + 5 + 5 + 9 + 6= 46

SACRIFICE: 1 + 1 + 3 + 9 + 9 + 6 + 9 + 3 + 5 = 46

TEMPERANCE: 2 + 5 + 4 + 7 + 5 + 9 + 1 + 5 + 5 = 46

VEGETATION: 4 + 5 + 7 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5 = 46

VIGILANCE: 4 + 9 + 7 + 9 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 3 + 5 = 46

AUTUMN FRUIT: (1 + 3 + 2 + 2 + 4 + 5) + (6 + 9 + 3 + 9 + 2) = 17 + 29 = 46

FORTY SIX: (7 + 6 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 5) + (1 + 9 + 6) = 30 + 16 = 46

FORTY STEPS: (6 + 6 + 9 + 2 + 7) + (1 + 2 + 5 + 7 + 1) = 30 + 16 = 46

HOUR TIME: (8 + 6 + 3 + 9) + (2+ 9 + 4 + 5) = 26 + 20 = 46

JULY SIXTEEN: (1 + 3 + 3 + 7) + (1 + 9 + 6 + 2 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 14 + 32 = 46

JUNE SIXTEEN: (1 + 3 + 5 + 5) + (1 + 9 + 6 + 2 + 5 + 5 + 5) = 14 + 32 = 46

LION KING: (3 + 9 + 6 + 5) + (2 + 9 + 5 + 7) = 23 + 23 = 46

MAGIC MANTRA: (4 + 1 + 7 + 9 + 3) + (4 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 9 + 1) = 24 + 22 = 46

MUSIC WHEEL: (4 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 3) + (5 + 8 + 5 + 5 + 3) = 20 + 26 = 46

SKY WEAVING: (1 + 2 + 7) + (5 + 5 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 5 + 7) = 10 + 36 = 46

SUMMER IVY: (1 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 9) + (9 + 4 + 7) = 26+ 20 = 46

TWENTY SEVEN: (2 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 2 + 7) + (1 + 5 + 4 + 5 + 5) = 26 + 20 = 46

WISDOM EYE: (5 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 4) + (5 + 7 + 5) = 29 + 17 = 46


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