On the Number 66

66 in Mathematics
1) The 33rd even number = 66
2) Product of the 1st even and 17th odd numbers = 2 x 33 = 66
3) Product of the 2nd odd and 11th even numbers = 3 x 22 = 66
4) Product of the 3rd even and 6th odd numbers = 6 x 11 = 66
5) Sum of the 10th & 12th prime numbers = 29 + 37 = 66
6) Sum of the 9th & 14th prime numbers = 23 + 43 = 66
7) Sum of the 6th & 16th prime numbers = 13 + 53 = 66
8) Sum of the 3rd & 18th prime numbers = 5 + 61 = 66
9) Sum of the 20th & 21st composite numbers = 32 + 34 = 66
10) The 11th triangular number = 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11 = 66
11) Sum of the 1st prime number & 4th cube number= 2 + 64 = 66
12) Sum of the 4th, 6th, and 10th Fibonacci numbers = 3 + 8 + 55 = 66
(Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, 1170-1250)
13) Square root of 66 = 8.1240
14) Cube root of 66 = 4.041240
15) ln 66 = 4.18965 (natural log to the base e)
16) log 66 = 1.81954 (logarithm to the base 10)
17) Sin 66o = 0.913545457
Cos 66o = 0.406736643
Tan 66o = 2.246036774
18) 1/66 expressed as a decimal = 0.015151515
19) The 31st & 32nd digits of e = 66
The 56th & 57th digits of e = 66
The 69th & 70th digits of e = 66
The 95th & 96th digits of e = 66
e = 2.7182818284 5904523536 0287471352 6624977572 4709369995
          9574966967 6277240766 3035354759 4571382178 5251664274
20) The 117th & 118th digits of pi, π = 66
The 211th & 212th digits of pi, π = 66
The 257th & 258th digits of pi, π = 66
The 276th & 277th digits of pi, π = 66
The 309th & 310th digits of pi, π = 66
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
   8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
   4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
   7245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094
21) The 149th & 150th digits of phi, φ = 66
The 184th & 185th digits of phi, φ = 66
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 44333 89086 59593 95829 05638 32266 13199 28290 26788
1.61803398874989484820 is a 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.
22) Binary number for 66 = 1000010
(Decimal & Binary Equivalence; Program for conversion)
23) ASCII value for 66 = B
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
24) Hexadecimal number for 66 = 42
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
25) Octal number for 66 = 102
(Octal #, Hexadecimal #, & ASCII Code Chart)
26) The 66th day of the year (non-leap year) = March 7
[Composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was born on March 7, 1875]
27) The Roman numeral for 66 is LXVI.
28) Liu Shí Liu is the Chinese ideograph for 66.
29) (60, 6) is the Babylonian number for 66
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers,
Penguin Books, New York (1987), pp. 326-327
30) The Hebrew letters Samech (60) & Vav (6)
add to 66 meaning "to be able"
(Hebrew Alphabet, Hebrew Gematria)
31) 66 in different languages:
Dutch: zestig-zes, French: soixante-six, German: sechzig-sechs, Hungarian: hatvan-hat,
Italian: sessanta-sei, Spanish: sesenta-seis, Swedish: sextio-sex, Turkish: altmis-alti
66 in Science & Technology
32) Atomic Number of Dysprosium (Dy) = 66 (66 protons & 66 electrons)
It is a rare earth element with bright silver luster in the lanthanide series.
33) Chemical Compounds with Molecular Weight = 66
Nitrogen Fluoride, F2N2 = 66.0102
Carbonic Difluoride, CF2O = 66.0069
Malononitrile, C3H2N2 = 66.0614
1,2-Difluoroethane, C2H4F2 = 66.0500
34) Aluminum has a melting point of 660.32o Celsius
35) Methanol, CH3OH, has a boiling point of 66o Celsius (151o Farenheit)
36) Kappa-Bungarotoxin is 66 amino acids long polypeptide, and folds into
an antiparallel β-sheet structure stabilized by 5 conserved disulfide bonds.
37) Nylon 66, is a type of polyamide or nylon. There are many types of nylon:
two most common for textile & plastics industries are nylon 6 and nylon 66.
Nylon 66 is made of two monomers each containing 6 carbon atoms,
hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid, which give nylon 66 its name.
In 2011 worldwide production was 2 million tons. Formula is (C12H22N2O2)n.
38) 66th amino acid in the 141-residue alpha-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Leucine (L)
66th amino acid in the 146-residue beta-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Lysine (K)
Single-Letter Amino Acid Code
Alpha-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VLSPADKTNVKAAWGKVGAHAGEYGAEALERMFLSFPTTKTYFPHFDLSH
GSAQVKGHGKKVADALTNAVAHVDDMPNALSALSDLHAHKLRVDPVNFKL
LSHCLLVTLAAHLPAEFTPAVHASLDKFLASVSTVLTSKYR
Beta-chain sequence of human hemoglobin:
VHLTPEEKSAVTALWGKVNVDEVGGEALGRLLVVYPWTQRFFESFGDLST
PDAVMGNPKVKAHGKKVLGAFSDGLAHLDNLKGTFATLSELHCDKLHVDP
ENFRLLGNVLVCVLAHHFGKEFTPPVQAAYQKVVAGVANALAHKYH
39) The 66th amino acid in the 153-residue sequence of sperm whale myoglobin
is Valine (V). It is next to Glycine-65 & Threonine-67.
It is designated E9, ninth-residue of the 20-residues E-helix.
— Richard E. Dickerson & Irving Geis,
The Structure and Action of Proteins (1969), p. 52
[A.B. Edmundson, Nature 205, 883-887 (1965)]
40) The 66th amino acid in the 124-residue enzyme Bovine Ribonuclease
is Lysine (K) It is next to Cysteine-65 and Asparagine-67
[C. H. W. Hirs, S. Moore, and W. H. Stein, J. Biol. Chem. 238, 228 (1963)]
41) Messier M66 (M66, NGC 3627) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 36 million
light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by Charles Messier
in 1780. M66 is about 95 thousand light-years across with striking dust lanes
and bright star clusters along sweeping spiral arms. M66 is part of the Leo
Triplet, a small group of galaxies that also includes M65 and NGC 3628.
As of 2015, four supernovae have been observed in M66.
42) NGC 66 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Frank Muller in 1886,
and is located in the Cetus constellation. (Image)
43) Asteroid 66 Maja is a dark, quite large main-belt asteroid.
It was discovered by Horace Tuttle on April 9, 1861, and
named after Maia, one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology.
It has mass of 3.9x1017 kg with dimension 71.8 km, and
a period of 1571.1 days. Last occultation: August 7, 2010.
44) Quadra Rose
Category: Hybrid Kordesii.
Bred in: Canada by Ian S. Ogilvie
Color: dark red
Type: cluster-flowered
Size: 3.25" diameter
Fragrance: mild fragrance
Petals: 66 petals
Year: 1981
45) Gunter's chain or surveyor's chain is a distance measuring device used for land survey.
It was designed and introduced in 1620 by English clergyman and mathematician
Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) long before the development of the theodolite and other
more sophisticated equipment, enabling plots of land to be accurately surveyed and
plotted, for legal and commercial purposes. The chain of 100 limks measures exactly
1/80 of a mile or 5280/80 = 66 feet. One link = 7.92 inches or 0.66 feet (Image).
46) Douglas B-66 Destroyer was a United States Air Force light bomber
based on the U.S. Navy's A-3 Skywarrior carrier-based heavy attack
aircraft. The B-66 was intended to replace the Douglas A-26 Invader,
and an RB-66 photo-reconnaissance version was ordered. USAF B-66
retained the three-man crew from the US Navy A-3, but incorporated
ejection seats that the US Navy variant lacked. First flight: 6-28-1954;
294 planes were built; Retired in 1973; The RB-66C was a specialized
electronic reconnaissance aircraft with an expanded crew of seven.
Photo Source: wikipedia.org
47) "Helo 66" was a Navy Sikorsky Sea King Helicopter used in the Apollo
spacecraft recoveries (Apollo 8-13 Missions, 1968-1970). Countless
photographs and television pictures show the white helicopter with
a big "66" painted on its side hovering over Apollo astronauts newly
returned from the Moon. Installation of SARAH (Search and Rescue
and Homing) equipment provided the helicopter pilots with the
ability to home in on the spacecraft's radio beacon.
Photo Source: tailspintopics.blogspot.com
48) Sherman T-66 Tank is a model 1/72 scale of U.S. Sherman Tank (1942-1957)
by Trumpeter, a Chinese company that manufactures plastic military
model kits. M4 Sherman was the most widely used medium tank by
the United States & Western Allies in World War II. 49,234 were built;
Weight: 66,800-84,000 lbs; Length: 19'2"-20'7"; Width: 8'7"-9'10";
Height: 9'-9'10"; Crew of 5. Photo Source: internetmodeler.com
49) USS America (CV-66) was one of three Kitty Hawk-class supercarriers
built for the United States Navy in the 1960s. Commissioned in 1965,
she spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, but did
make three Pacific deployments serving in the Vietnam War. She also
served in the Persian Gulf War's operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm.
Launched: February 1, 1964; Motto: Don't Tread On Me; Length: 990 ft;
Beam: 248 ft; Speed: 34 knots (39 mph); 79 aircrafts carried; Armament:
Terrier missile (replaced with Sea Sparrow) and Phalanx CIWS
Photo Source: wikipedia.org
50) Amtrak 66 Train serves the Northeast region of the United States.
Major cities served: Boston - Providence / Springfield - Hartford -
New York - Washington, DC - Lynchburg / Richmond - Petersburg -
Norfolk / Newport News - Virginia Beach. Riders have noticed that
the NE Regional #66 NYP-BOS takes 5 hr and 20 min, and all other
NE regionals between those stations are more than an hour less.
Fares: Boston to New York $59; Boston to Washington D.C. $82;
New York to Chicago $108; Miami to New York $152
Photo Source: railroadforums.com
51) CargoNet CD66 Locomotive is part of CargoNet AS, the primary
operator of freight trains on the Norwegian railway system.
The Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD Class 66) are Co-Co diesel
locomotives built by EMD for European heavy freight market.
The Class 66 is a type of six-axle diesel electric freight locomotive
developed in part from the Class 59, for use on British railways.
Built: 1998 to date; Total produced: 658; Maximum speed: 75 mph;
Length: 70'1"; Width: 8'8"; Height: 12'10"; Weight: 126.9 tons;
Fuel: Diesel; Fuel capacity: 1700 gallons. Photo Source: wikipedia.org
52) Pierce-Arrow Model 66 was one of the greatest Nickel-era American cars,
produced from 1910 to 1918. At the center of this Model 66 was an enormous
engine that had grown to 825 cubic inches in 1913 and became the largest engine
offered in a passenger car. The model was born in 1910 when Pierce enlarged
their flagship model to include a 825 cubic inch version of their 6-cylinder
engine. This was initially made for the Model 65-Q of 1907 and was one
of the largest fitted to a motorcar in the Nickel-era. It was also one of the
most expensive at around $7,200 USD. Photo Source: youtube.com
66 in Mythology & History
53)

Sekhmet, Lion Goddess
Metropolitan Museum of Art		 Archaeologists discover 66 statues of Sekhmet
buried to ward off evil from the temple of
Amenhotep III. The lion-headed goddess of war
protects a pharoah. Goddess is shown holding
a sceptre of the papyrus flower and symbol of life.
Sekhmet was a powerful warrior goddess who
protected people against evil. She's also a solar
deity, sometimes called the daughter & protector
of the sun god Ra. Each of the 66 statues is made
from diorite stone, a material that was also used
to build temples, according to the archaeologists.
German archaelogists, led by Dr Hourig Sourouzian,
discovered the statues near Luxor, site of Thebes.
(By Cheyenne MacDonald, Daily Mail, UK, 3-8-2017)
Photo Source: jackpineradicals.com
54) 66 B.C.—
• Battle of the Lycus: Pompey the Great decisively defeats
    Mithridates VI, effectively ending the Third Mithridatic War.
• Catiline accused of conspiring against the Roman Republic with Autronius and the younger Sulla.
55) 66 A.D.—
• Halley's Comet passes the Earth
    "A comet of the kind called Xiphias, because their tails appear to represent the blade of a sword"
    was seen above Jerusalem before its fall, according to the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.
• Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire. The Zealots
    take Jerusalem & Sicarii capture the fortress of Masada.
• September 22: Emperor Nero creates the legion I Italica
• Suetonius Paullinus becomes a Roman Consul.
• First Epistle to Timothy of the New Testament is written.
Comet looking like a sword
56) 66th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army
during World War II. Activated April 15, 1943, the division
trained at Camp Blanding, Florida, and was later transferred
to Camp Robinson, Arkansas and then later to Camp Rucker,
Alabama before being shipped overseas to England on
November 26, 1944. Commanded by Maj. Gen. H. F. Kramer,
the 66th Infantry Division's main role in World War II was
containing and eliminating the remaining pockets of German
soldiers in Northern France. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
57) At Age 66:
Michelangelo (1475-1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect,
and poet of the High Renaissance born in Florence, who exerted
an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
He completed The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel in Rome (1541) at age 66. He had begun this in 1536 at
age 61, and his work on the ceiling there had been from 33-27.
His sonnets and other poems are written mainly between 55-70.
At 71, he designed the Capitoline Hill square in Rome, and at 72
he designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a Francophone Genevan philosopher,
writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced
the Enlightenment in France & across Europe, as well as aspects of the French
Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational
thought. One version of his last words when Rousseau died at age 66 is "God!
See how pure the sky is. There is not a single cloud. Don't you see that its gates are open
and that God awaits me?" Rousseau's novel Emile, or On Education (1762) is a
treatise on education of the whole person for citizenship. His Confessions (1789),
initiated the modern autobiography. His Reveries of a Solitary Walker was written
between 1776 and 1778 (age 64-66) and published posthumously in 1782.
(Sept. 1, 1979 Rousseau Sunset Experience in Vevey with Paul Brunton)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was a British politician and writer who twice
served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868 and 1874-1880).
He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party.
Resigning as Prime Minister in 1868 at age 64, his first novel Lothar (1870)
was published at age 66. Described as "Disraeli's ideological Pilgrim's
Progress", it is a story of political life with particular regard to the roles
of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. Published by Longmans,
Green and Co. on 2 May 1870, in 3 volumes (982 pages), the first edition
of 2000 copies sold out in two days, and no less than seven more British
editions were needed before the end of the year. By 1876 Disraeli had earned
£7500 from the novel, but it had not been so beneficial to his political career.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, interior designer,
writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which
were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony
with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
This philosophy was best exemplified by the Fallingwater house (1935), which
has been called the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright had
published Disappearing City (1932) at age 65, and Broadacre City (1935) on urban
planning. He completed the Malcolm Willey House (Minneapolis) in 1934,
and made a visit to Bear Run (1934) at age 66 to survey the area around the
waterfall in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Fallingwater was built 1935-1939.
USPS honored him with a 2¢ postage stamp (1966), showing the Guggenheim
Museum he designed at age 91 (1959). (Photo Source: steinerag.com)
Colonel Sanders (1890-1980) was an American businessman, best known
for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken
(now known as KFC) & later acting as the company's brand ambassador
and symbol. In 1956, at age 66, he travels the U.S.A., selling his private
method of speedy but attractive frying chicken. He franchises the name
and the method, in return for a 4% royalty. By 70. je jas 400 franchises,
and 628 by 74. By the time of Sanders' death, there were an estimated 6,000
KFC outlets in 48 countries worldwide, with $2 billion ($5.8 billion today)
of sales annually. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
[Source: Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), pp. 437-440]
66 in Geography
58) Cities located at 66o longitude:
San Juan, Puerto Rico: 66o 04' W longitude & 18o 27' N latitude
Saint John, New Brunswick: 66o 05' W longitude & 45o 17' N latitude
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: 66o 07' W longitude & 43o 50' N latitude
Fredericton, New Brunswick: 66o 40' W longitude & 45o 57' N latitude
Caracas, Venezuela: 66o 55' W longitude & 10o 30' N latitude
59) 66 is used as the country code for telephones in Thailand.
60) European Route E66 is a part of the inter-European road system,
running through three countries— Italy, Austria, and Hungary.
This Class A intermediate west-east route runs 651 kilometres
(405 miles) from Franzensfeste in Italy to Székesfehérvár
in Hungary, connecting the Alps with the Pannonian Plain.
61) U.S. Route 66 was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System.
US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following
year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States,
originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica, California, covering
a total of 2,448 miles. It was officially removed from the United States Highway
System ion June 26, 1985. Recognized in popular culture by both the hit song
"Get Your Kicks on Route 66" and the Route 66 television show in the 1960s.
(Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
62)

End U.S. 66 Trail
Santa Monica, CA		 U.S. Route 66 begins in the east at Chicago, Illinois and ends
in the west at San Monica, California. The 2448-miles highway
has many Motel 66. One is at 1701 West Main St., Barstow, CA.
Another is at Needles, CA (right). Route66motels.com lists more:
Route 66 Hotel, 6th & Stevenson, Springfield, IL; Route 66 Inn,
800 East 12th Sreet, Shamrock, TX; Route 66 Motel, 21751 South
Highway 69, Afton, OK; Route 66 Motel, Tucumcari, NM;
Route 66 Inn, Williams, AZ; Motels without #66 not cited.
Photo Sources: Santa Monica (ridefree.com); Needles (wikipedia.org)
Motel 66
Needles, CA
63) California State Route 66 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California,
running along the section of old U.S. Route 66 in California from La Verne
east to San Bernardino, passing by Claremont Colleges before crossing into
Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontana and Rialto along Foothill Boulevard.
In San Bernardino, it is the part of 5th Street west of H Street (at the Interstate
215 interchange). Length: 32.321 miles. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
64) Phillips 66 is an American multinational energy company headquartered in
Westchase, Houston, Texas. It debuted as an independent energy company
when ConocoPhillips executed a spin-off of its downstream and midstream
assets. Taking its name from 1927 "Phillips 66" trademark of ConocoPhillips
predecessor Phillips Petroleum Company, Phillips 66 produces natural gas
liquids & petrochemicals. It has 14,000 employees. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)
65) King's Highway 66 is an east-west highway that runs from the Montreal
River bridge in Matachewan to the Quebec Boundary east of Virginiatown.
East of Highway 11, Highway 66 is part of the Trans-Canada Highway.
While it has been indicated as Kirkland Lake Route of the Trans-Canada
Highway for many years on Ontario Road maps, it wasn't until May of
2004 that signs were erected along the route, marking it as part of the
Trans-Canada Highway. Highway 66 owes its existence largely due to
Kirkland Lake Gold Rush of the 1920s & 1930s, passing right through
the rich gold fields. Length: 64.3 miles. (Photo Source: asphaltplanet.ca)
66) 66th Street Lincoln Center is a local station on the IRT
Broadway-7th Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
Located at the intersection of 66th Street and Broadway,
it is served by the #1 train at all times, and by the #2 train
during late nights. It provides access to Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts just to the south, with Alice Tully Hall
just to the west. The station opened on October 27, 1904.
The walls at the platform level were renovated in 2004
and are decorated with mosaics designed by New York
artist Nancy Spero. (Photo Source: wikimedia.org)
67) West 66th Street, Manhattan between Columbus Avenue
and Central Park West is the address for the ABC News
Headquarters and was co-named Peter Jennings Way in
2006 in honor of the late news anchor. Tavern on the Green,
the famed Manhattan restaurant which operated from 1934
to 2009, also was located off of West 66th Street, at Central
Park West. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
covers a 16.3-acre site located between Columbus Avenue
and Amsterdam Avenue, from West 60th to West 66th Street.
(Photo Source: flickr.com)
68) 66th Street, Manhattan is a crosstown street in the New York City
with portions on the Upper East Side & Upper West Side connected
across Central Park via the 66th Street Transverse. Founder's Hall,
located at York Avenue at the eastern foot of East 66th Street, was
the first building opened on the campus of Rockefeller University.
It was the first major philanthropic foundation created by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. Charles Scribner House on 9 East 66th Street (left),
houses the Polish Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Notable residents: Benny Goodman (1908-1986) Bandleader,
200 East 66th Street. Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Pop artist, lived
at 57 East 66th Street. Ulysses S. Grant, resided at 3 East 66th St.
from 1884-1885 till his death. (Photo Source: wikimedia.org)
69) 66 Rue de Seine Hotel, Paris is a Welcome Hotel, charging $104 per night.
Rue de Seine is a street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Rue de Seine
is one of the most sought after streets in Paris due to its history and very
close proximity to the Louvre and other famous Parisian landmarks.
Rue de Seine & surrounding streets are host to the highest concentration
of art galleries and antique dealers in the world. Hotel La Louisiane at
60 Rue de Seine have accommodated Miles Davis, John Coltrane,
Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
Notable residents: Charles Baudelaire, 27 & 57 Rue de Seine;
Count D'Artagnan 25 Rue de Seine; George Sand, 52 Rue de Seine;
St. Vincent de Paul, 1 Rue de Seine; (Photo Source: ripadvisor.com)
70) 66-Story Au Tower will be built in Gold Coast, Australa.
The proposed towers will contain 474 one-, two-, three-,
and four-bedroom apartments as well as 120 serviced
apartments. Located adjacent to a light rail station,
the development will only contain 472 parking spots,
with residents expected to rely on public transport.
Some features will include retail and dining spaces
at ground level, a public plaza, & plenty of open space.
Designed by Cox Rayner Architects, the development
has been dubbed The Au— the atomic symbol on
the period table for gold. (Photo Source: ctbuh.org)
71) Building 66: Landau Building
On January 8, 2011, MIT Museum had "The MIT 150 Exhibition".
A group of MIT alumni at a Cardinal and Gray Society event
nominated Building 66, the Ralph Landau Building.
The building was designed (1976) by alumnus I. M. Pei,
and houses labs for Department of Chemical Engineering.
It received 9 votes. Winner "Baker House Piano Drop"
received 721 votes. (Photo Source: museum.mit.edu)
72)
Stanford Bronze Plaque 66 is on the ground 66 yards to the right
of Stanford University's Memorial Church. It is in front of the archway
between Buildings 60 & 70. The plaque is dedicated to Class of 1966.
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.
(Photo by Peter Y. Chou, July 2005)
66 in Art, Books, Music, & Films
73)

Woodblock Print #66 from 100 Views of Edo
"Kojimachi and the Benkei Moat at Soto Sakurada"
by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Brooklyn Museum
Hiroshige's Woodblock #66 inspired this haiku:
    Pines by the castle,
    serene water in the moat—
    scene of shogun's killing.
 This broad, gently curving stretch of water
represents a segment of the great inner moat
of Edo Castle. The red-gated mansion to
the upper left belonged to Ii Naosuke, one
of the shogun's closest political advisers.
It was along the road to the lower left
that he was assassinated by a group of
hotheaded young loyalist samurai as he
proceeded from his mansion to Edo Castle
on a snowy day in early 1860.
Literary Reference: Brooklyn Museum (brooklynmuseum.org);
Photo Source: Hiroshige Woodblock Print #66 (hiroshige.org.uk)
74) Krishna Print #66 shows "Sri Krishna as a Deity Playing the Flute"
from Krishna Darshan Art Gallery featuring 188 paintings of Lord Krishna.
75) Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 66 Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (Rejoice, you hearts), BWV 66
is a church cantata for Easter by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it for the Second Day
of Easter in Leipzig & first performed it on 10 April 1724. He based it on his congratulatory
cantata Der Himmel dacht auf Anhalts Ruhm und Glück, BWV 66a, first performed in Köthen
on 10 December 1718. Bach structured the cantata in six movements, an exuberant choral
opening, a set of recitative & aria for bass, another such set for alto & tenor, and a closing
chorale taken from the medieval Easter hymn "Christ ist erstanden". A Baroque instrumental
ensemble included trumpet, two oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo. The music expresses
moods of mourning and fear which should be overcome, but especially exhilarating joy.
(YouTube: Philippe Herreweghe). Photo Source: Bach Cantata 66 (bach-cantatas.com)
76) Joseph Haydn's Symphony 66 in B flat major (Hoboken I/66) was composed around 1775-1776.
The symphony is scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns and strings. The 4 movements:
Allegro con brio, Adagio, Menuetto & Trio, Finale: Scherzando e presto. First movement has a
lively Allegro with an attractive first theme, the Adagio uses muted strings and a tiny pizzicato
interpolation. Minuet is full of elegance & its linked Trio has a charming passage with bassoon
and oboe doubling the first violin line. The Finale is largely in the form of a rondo and makes
considerable use of a simple short phrase. L.P. Burstein has noted Haydn's use of the VII# chord
and the VII# → V progression in the first movement. A.P. Brown has noted how Haydn reworked
material from the symphony's first movement into other compositions, including an overture in D
& two other symphonies. (YouTube: Christopher Hogwood). Photo Source: (musicweb-international.com)
77) Le 66 (1856) is an opérette in one act with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto
was by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin (Paul Aimé Chapelle). Tirolean cousins,
Grittly and Frantz, meet a pedlar, Berthold, whilst travelling to Strasbourg, when Frantz
learns he has won the lottery with his ticket 66. In his excitement he borrows money and
goes on a spending spree, returning in grotesque clothing, only to discover that his ticket
is actually 99. (You Tube: Apollo Opera Co.) Photo Source: Opera Le 66 (henkellvineyards.com.au)
78) "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" is a popular rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946
by American songwriter Bobby Troup. The song uses a twelve-bar blues arrangement and
the lyrics follow the path of U.S. Route 66 (US 66), which traversed the western 2/3 of the
U.S. from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California. Nat King Cole, as the King Cole Trio
(YouTube), first recorded the song the same year and it became a hit, appearing on Billboard
magazine's R&B and pop charts. Another version to hit the Billboard charts was recorded by
Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters (YouTube) on May 11, 1946 and this reached No. 14
in 1946. The idea for the song came to Troup on a cross-country drive from Pennsylvania to
California. He and his wife, Cynthia, packed up their 1941 Buick and headed west. The song
was composed on the ten-day journey, and completed by referencing maps when the couple
arrived in Los Angeles. Perry Como's 1959 version (YouTube) is more lyrically complete.
Chuck Berry's 1961 version (YouTube) was closest to its R&B roots, with jazz overtones.
Rolling Stones 1964 version (YouTube). Photo Source: Route 66 (wikipepdia.org)
79) Route 66 is an American TV drama that premiered on CBS on October 7, 1960, and ran until
March 20, 1964 (116 episodes). It featured the adventures of two men (Martin Milner and
George Maharis) driving across the wide-open spaces of western United States. Show was
shot on location, but seldom coincided with actual points on Route 66. Source: (wikipedia.org)
80) 66 Ways God Loves You is a book by Jennifer Rothschild, published October 4, 2016 by
Thomas Nelson (Nashville, TN), subtitled "Experience God's Love for You in Every Book
of the Bible". As there are 66 books in King James Version of the Bible (39 in Old Testament
& 27 in New Testament), Rothschild walks through each book and shows, in concise and
thoughtful ways, how every book reflects God's love for each of us, such as: In Genesis God
fashions me with His hands. In Esther He makes me royalty. In Acts God's Spirit comes to live
in me. In I Peter God gives me victory over suffering. Each chapter includes a short reading on
the message of that book in the Bible, along with a simple takeaway to help apply the message
to your own life. Jennifer Rothschild has written 13 books and Bible studies, including the
bestsellers, Lessons I Learned in the Dark and Self-Talk, Soul-Talk. She lost her sight at age 15
and regularly travels and speaks around the country, sharing her story and all God has done
in her life. Jennifer lives with her family in Missouri. Image Source: (amazon.com)
66 in Sports & Games
81) Baseball's 66th World Series (1969) was played between the New York Mets and the Baltimore Orioles,
with the Mets prevailing in five games to accomplish one of the greatest upsets in Series history. as that
particular Orioles squad was considered to be one of the finest ever (and still is by some baseball pundits).
The World Series win earned the team the sobriquet "Miracle Mets", as they had risen from the depths of
mediocrity (the 1969 team had the first winning record in Mets history). Daily News (October 17, 1969).
82) Most home runs in a season without leading the league—
66 by Sammy Sosa, NL, Chicago, 1998.
(Mark McGwire had 70 homers for St. Louis, 1998)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Books, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 159
83) Most career wins in relief—
66 by Doug Jones (33rd on list)
(Top 4: Hoyt Wilhelm 124, Lindy McDaniel 119, Goose Gossage 115, Rollie Fingers 107)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Books, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 215
84) Most stolen bases in a season by a rookie—
66 by Kenny Lofton (5th on list) AL, Cleveland, 1992
(Top 4: Vince Coleman 110, Benny Kauff 75, Juan Samuel 72, Tim Raines 71)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Books, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 361
85) Most times ejected from a MLB game as player or manager—
66 by Joe Torre (10th on list)
(Top 3: John McGraw 131, Leo Durocher 124, Bobby Cox 123)
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Books, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 367
86) Rickey Henderson sets single season stolen bases with 130. His 66th stolen base came on
June 18, 1982 against Roy Lee Jackson of Toronto Blue Jays when he stoled 2nd base in 7th inning.
87) Hockey & Football Players with Uniform #66—

Mario Lemieux #66
Pittsburgh Penguins
(1984-1997, 2000-2005)
Kevin Gogan #66
Dallas Cowboys(1987-1993)
L.A> Raiders (1994-1996)
Larry Little #66
San Diego Chargers (1967-1968)
Miami Dolphins (1969-1980)
Ray Nitscke #66
Green Bay Packers
(1958-1972)
Clyde Turner #66
Chicago Bears (1940-1952)
4x NFL Championships
Mario Lemieux (b. October 5, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current owner of the Pittsburgh
Penguins team. He played parts of 17 seasons in the NHL with the Pittsburgh Penguins, between 1984 and 2006. Dubbed
"The Magnificent One" as well as "Super Mario", he is widely acknowledged to have been one of the best players of all time.
Lemieux led Pittsburgh to consecutive Stanley Cups in 1991 & 1992. Under his ownership, the Penguins won additional Cups
in 2009, 2016 & 2017. He led Team Canada to Olympic gold medal in 2002 & championship at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey.
Since there's only one #99 in hockey (Wayne Gretzky), Lemieux took an upside-down 99 or "66" as his uniform number.
Kevin Gogan (b. November 2, 1964) is a former professional American football player who played guard for 14 seasons
in the NFL from 1987 to 2000. Gogan played with the Cowboys, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers,
Miami Dolphins, and San Diego Chargers. He was selected to three Pro Bowls and had a reputation as being one of the
league's dirtiest players during his career. He won two Super Bowl championships (XXVII, XXVIII) with Dallas Cowboys.
Larry Little (b. November 2, 1945) is a former professional American football offensive guard who played in the NFL.
There was nothing little about the contribution this outstanding guard made to the Miami Dolphins' offense (1969-1980)
when he was traded there by San Diego Chargers. He was 5x Pro Bowl (1969, 1971-1974) & NFL 1970s All-Decade Team.
Won two Super Bowl championships (VII, VIII) with Miami Dolphins. Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.
Ray Nitschke (12-29-1936 to 3-8-1998) was a professional American football middle linebacker who spent his entire 15-year
NFL career with the Green Bay Packers. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he was the anchor of the defense for
coach Vince Lombardi in the 1960s, leading Packers to five NFL championships & victories in the first two Super Bowls.
Clyde "Bulldog" Turner (3-10-1919 to 10-30-1998) was an American football player and coach. He was elected, as a player,
to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966. He was also selected in 1969 to the
NFL 1940s All-Decade Team. He won 4x NFL champion (1940, 1941, 1943, 1946) with Chicago Bears.
Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), p. 216; Photo Sources: Mario Lemieux (penguins-hockey-cards.com);
Kevin Gogan (ebay.com); Larry Little (alchetron.com); Ray Nitschke (pinterest.com); Clyde Turner (wikipedia.org)
88) 95th Kentucky Derby was won by Majestic Prince in 2:01.8
with Jockey Bill Hartack aboard (May 3, 1969).
89) 95th Preakness Stakes was won by Personality in 1:56.2
with Jockey Eddie Belmonte aboard (May 16, 1970).
90) 95th Belmont Stakes was won by Chateaugay in 2:30.2
with Jockey Braulio Baeza aboard (June 8, 1963).
(The Healer Behind the Belmont Winner of 1963)
91) 95th Wimbledon Men's Tennis:
John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4) on July 4, 1981
92) 95th Wimbledon Women's Tennis:
Chris Evert-Lloyd beats Hana Mandlíková (6-2, 6-2) on July 4, 1981.
93) 95th U.S. Open Tennis:
Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (6-4, 6-3, 6-4) on September 7, 1975
94) 95th U.S. Golf Open: Corey Pavin shoots a 280
two strokes ahead of runner-up Greg Norman to win at
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York (June 18, 1995).
95) 95th Boston Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins in 2:11:06 (April 15, 1991)
Wanda Panfil of Poland wins Women's Marathon in 2:24:18.
66 in Collectibles, Coins & Postage Stamps
96)
1995 China Panda Gold Coin,
100 yuan, 1 oz.
Obverse: Panda & Bamboo
Reverse: Temple of Heaven
97) 1964 Masonic Medal, Jeptha Lodge #95,
Clinton, Conncticut, Great Ship Image
Obverse: Clipper Ship (1864-1964)
Reverse: Masonic Symbols—
Compass & Square,
All Seeing Eye,
Masonic Gavel,
Letter G
98) There are 100 Marvel Value Stamps
issued 1974-1976 in Marvel Comic Books
Stamp #66 General Thunderbolt Ross
Incredible Hulk #174, p. 16
Artist: Herb Trimpe & Jack Abel
Comic Issues containing this stamp:
Amazing Spider-Man #133, June 1974
Astonishing Tales #26, October 1974
Ghost Rider #11, April 1975, p. 18
99) There are 200 cards in Wings: Friend or Foe (Topps 1952)
Card #95 is F-2H Banshee U.S. Navy Jet Fighterr
100) There are 160 cards in World on Wheels (Topps 1953)
Card #95 is Buick XP300 Experimental Car
101) There are 135 cards in Look 'n See (Topps 1952)
Card #95 is Alfred E. Smith (Governor of New York) (Source)
102) There are 156 cards in Scoop (Topps 1954)
Card #95 is Chief Sitting Bull Killed (December 15, 1890)
103) 66¢ United States Postage Stamps:
Note: Stamps were downloaded & resized in same proportion as originals.
Some stamps were retouched in Adobe Photoshop for centering or perforations.
U.S.—
Wedding
Issued
Jan. 27, 2012
Set of 6 values
(Scott B515-B520)
(Source) 		Czechoslovia J87—
95 hakru
Numeral 95
Postage Due
Issued Jan. 23, 2013
(Source) 		U.S. #4765
66 cents
Issued April 11, 2013
(Source)
103) Foreign Postage Stamps with 95 denomination:
Note: Stamps were downloaded & resized in same proportion as originals.
Some stamps were retouched in Adobe Photoshop for centering or perforations.
Belgium B515—
65+30 centimes
August Vermeylen
Belgian writer
Issued
Oct. 24, 1952
Set of 6 values
(Scott B515-B520)
(Source) 		Czechoslovia J87—
95 hakru
Numeral 95
Postage Due
Issued 1954
Set of 13 values
(Scott J82-J94)
(Source) 		Netherlands J104—
95 cents
Numeral 95
Postage Due
Issued 1957
Set of 27 values
(Scott J80-J106)
(Source)

France 1129, 95 centimes
Vendée River, Windmill, Boat Poling
(issued July 1965) 1124-1130 (set of 7)
France 1189, 95 centimes
Harbor Lighthouse, Boulogne-sur-Mer
(issued July 8, 1967) 1185-1191
France 1279, 95 centimes
Chancelade Abbey, Dordogne
(June 20, 1970) 1278-1281 (set of 4)

France C44, 95 centimes
Hot-Air Balloon
(Jan. 16, 1971) source
France 1026, 95 centimes
Dunkirk 300th anniversary
(1962) 1025-1027
France 1072, 95 centimes
Moissac Cloisters Abbey
(June 15, 1963) 1068-1072
France 1077, 95 centimes
Fur Merchants, Chartres
(Nov. 9, 1963) 1076-1077

Israel 472, 95 agorot
Hamifratz, Hane'elan Lake
(issued 1973)
461-474 (set of 18)
Israel 486, 95 agorot
Seder, Passover
(March 7, 1972)
484-486 (set of 3)
Netherlands 360A,
95 cents (1967)
Queen Julianna
344-360A (set of 20)
Netherlands Antilles 347, 95 cents
Town Hall, St. Maarten
(February 12, 1973)
340-348 (set of 9)

Israel 495, 95 agorot
Printed Page
International Book Year
(June 6, 1972) source
Israel 500, 95 agorot
Reggio Emilia
Holy Arks from Italy
(August 8, 1972) 497-500
Poland 998, 95 groszy
Seal of Conrad II &
Silesian Eagle (1962)
994-1005B (set of 14)
Tunisia 361, 95 millimes
Olive Picker (7-7-1959)
1959-1961 issues
338-363B (set of 28)

Portugal 511,
95 centavos
"Portugal" & Lusiadas
(1933) 497-519
Somalia CB13, 75 + 20 centesimi
Destroyed Somali Village
(issued 12-12-1964)
B54, CB13-CB14
Sweden 655, 95 öre
Rock Carvings (1964)
issues 1964-1971
647-672F (set of 30)
Sweden 750A, 95 öre
Roe Deer
(issued 1972)
737-764 (set of 33)

Sweden 1196, 95 öre
Physical Fitness: Ice Skating
(March 24, 1977) 1196-1200 (set of 5)
Sweden 1198, 95 öre
Physical Fitness: Bicycling
(March 24, 1977) 1196-1200 (set of 5)
Sweden 1200, 95 öre
Physical Fitness: Badminton
(March 24, 1977) 1196-1200 (set of 5)

Sweden 1204, 95 öre
"Calle Schewen": Seagull
by Evert Taube (1890-1976)
(May 2, 1977) 1203-1207 (set of 5)
Sweden 1206, 95 öre
"Calle Schewen": Fishermen
by Evert Taube (1890-1976)
(May 2, 1977) 1203-1207 (set of 5)
Sweden 1207, 95 öre
"Calle Schewen": Tree & Sunset
by Evert Taube (1890-1976)
(May 2, 1977) 1203-1207 (set of 5)

Finland 1257, 0.95 Euro
Helene Schjerfbeck's
"Fortune Teller"
(3-1-2006) 1257
France 4803, 0.95 Euro
Europa 2015, Toys
Teddy Bear on Horse
(5-4-2015) 4803
France 4823, 0.95 Euro
National Monument
Hartmannswillerkopf
(6-19-2015) 4823
Vatican 1586,
Pope Francis
0.95 € (2-19-2015)
1585-1588

Monaco 2604, 0.95 €
1st International
Electric Mail Flight
(8-23-2010) 2604
Monaco 2613, 0.95 Euro
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-1995)
Race Car Driver, Monte Carlo
(issued 1-12-2011) 2613-2615
Monaco 2621, 0.95 Euro
150th birth anniversary of sculptor
Aristide Maillol & his sculpture
(issued 2-21-2011) 2621, 2621b

Monaco 2625, 0.95 €
44th International
Flower Show
(3-24-2011) 2625
Monaco 2781, 0.95 €
39th Festival Cirque Monte Carlo
(1-7-2015) 2781
Monaco 2801, 0.95 €
Europa 2015
Children's Toys
(5-11-2015) 2800-2801
Vatican 1592, 0.95 €
Europa 2015
Drummer on Blocks
(5-19-2015) 1591-1592

Vatican 1598, 0.95 Euro
Pope Francis Visits Albania
September 21, 2014
(Sept. 2, 2015) 1598-1601
Vatican 1600, 0.95 Euro
Pope Francis Visits Turkey
November 28-30, 2014
(Sept. 2, 2015) 1598-1601
Vatican, 0.95 Euro
Canonization of
Mother Teresa
(9-2-2016) source

Luxembourg, 0.95 Euro
Europa 2016 "Think Green"
(May 10, 2016) source (set of 2)
Luxembourg,, 0.95 Euro
SEPAC 2016, View of Castles
(Sept. 13, 2016) source
Vatican 1583, 0.95 €
Public Display of Shroud of Turin
(issued February 19, 2015) 1583
Note: There are no 95¢ stamps issued by the United States. Searched 4 hours & found 25 stamps with 95 denomination in my copies of 1975 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Volumes 1-3. Additional stamps with 0.95 Euro were found on the web. Consulted 2016 Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue Volumes 1-6 (Los Altos Library) for Scott Catalogue #s. The 45 stamps shown above were all downloaded from the web using Google Images and eBay searches. Click on catalogue #s for image source of the set where the stamp appears. Some stamps were retouched in Adobe Photoshop for centering and perforations with black background added. The dates of issue were found in Scott Catalogues as well as the Scott Catalogue #s. Click on stamp to enlarge.

66 in the Bible
104) 95 is cited twice in the Bible (referring to the children who left Babylon for Jerusalem):
The children of Gibbar, ninety and five
Ezra 2:20 (536 B.C.)
The children of Gibeon, ninety and five
Nehemiah 7:25 (536 B.C.)
105) 95th word of the King James Version of the Bible's Old Testament Genesis = be
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.
4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
    And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6: And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,
    and let it divide the waters from the waters.
    — Genesis I.1-6 (1611)
106) The 95th Psalm sings praise to the Lord:
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
Psalms 95:1-6
107) 95th Book of Enoch describes Enoch's grief:
Oh that mine eyes were [a cloud of] waters
That I might weep over you,
And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters:
That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!
Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous;
For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice,
And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.
— Book of Enoch XCV.1, 7 (circa 105 B.C.-64 B.C.)
    translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K., London, 1917, p. 136
108) 95th Saying of Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus said: If you have money, do not lend at interest,
but give [it] to him from whom you will not receive them back.
Gospel of Thomas 95 (114 sayings of Jesus, circa 150 A.D.)
(translated by Thomas O. Lambdin, 1988)
109) In Chapter 95 of The Aquarian Gospel, The Sermon on the Mount, continued.
Jesus pronounces the eight beatitudes and the eight woes. Speaks words
of encouragement. Emphasises the exalted character of the apostolic work.
  1. And Jesus and the twelve went to the mountain top, and Jesus said,
  5. But you shall go in love and helpfulness and lead the way to right and light.
  6. Go forth and say, The kingdom is at hand.
  7. Worthy are the strong in spirit; theirs the kingdom is.
10. Worthy are the merciful; and mercy shall be shown to them.
11. Worthy they who gain the mastery of self; they have the key of power.
31. And you are light; are called to light the world.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 95
Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi H. Dowling
DeVorss & Co., Santa Monica, CA, 1908, Reset 1964, pp. 96-97
66 in Books on Philosophy and Religion
110) Hymn 95 in Book 1 of the Rig Veda is a song of praise to Agni, the God of Fire:
Who of you knows this secret One? The Infant by his own nature hath brought forth his Mothers.
The germ of many, from the waters' bosom he goes forth, wise and great, of Godlike nature.
Visible, fair, he grows in native brightness uplifted in the lap of waving waters.
He makes him a most noble form of splendour, decking him in his home with milk and waters.
The Sage adorns the depths of air with wisdom: this is the meeting where the Gods are worshipped.
Wide through the firmament spreads forth triumphant the far-resplendent strength of thee the Mighty.
Kindled by us do thou preserve us, Agni, with all thy self-bright undiminished succours.
Fed with our fuel, purifying Agni, so blaze to us auspiciously for glory.
Rig Veda Book 1, 95.4-5, 8-9, 11 (circa 1500 B.C.)
111) 95th Verse of Buddha's Dhammapada: Canto VII— The Holy One
He who is unperturbed like the earth, who is steadfast like Indra's post
(in the portal of a city), whose character is as pure and translucent as a clear lake,
to such a holy one there are no further cycles of rebirth (samsara).
Buddha, Dhammapada Verse 95 (240 B.C.)
(translated by Harischandra Kaviratna, Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, 1980)
112) 95th Verse of the Bhagavad Gita
(Krishna's lecture to Arjuna on karma yoga):
Do thy work in the peace of Yoga and free from selfish desires,
be not moved in success or in failure. Yoga is evenness of mind—
a peace that is ever the same. (2:48)
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, Verse 48 [note: 47 verses in Ch. 1]
(Translated by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Books, 1962, p. 52)
113) 95th Verse in Chapter 18 of Astavakra Gita
(Sage Astavakra's dialogue with King Janaka):
He who has realized spiritual knowledge is engaged in thoughts even when devoid of thoughts,
possessed of sense organs even when devoid of sense organs, possessed of intelligence even
when devoid of intelligence, possessed of egoism even when devoid of egoism.
Astavakra Gita Chapter 18, Verse 95 (circa 400 B.C.)
114) 95th Aphroism Patanjali's Yoga Sutra:
By study comes communion with the desired deity.
Vyasa Commentary: The gods, the Rishis and the Siddhas become
visible to him who is given to study, and they do take part in his work.
Patanjali (circa 200 B.C.), Yoga Sutra II.44: Aphroism 95 (circa 200 B.C.)
translated by Rama Prasada, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1995, p. 168
115) 95th Trigraph of the Ling Ch'i Ching: Pi Shih / Shuning the World
The image of hiding far away
Insulting yang with yin
Oracle:
The menial realize their ambitions,
the perfected lose their Tao.
Abandoning my thatched house,
I enter the marshy grasses.
Verse:
The imperial carriage has departed from the vermillion steps,
Mountain finches have soared into the blue sky.
Perverse ministers increasingly usurp official position,
Worthy individuals find it advantageous to hide and flee.
—Tung-fang Shuo,
Ling Ch'i Ching (circa 222-419)
(trans. Ralph D. Sawyer & Mei-Chün Lee Sawyer, 1995, p. 220)
116) Text 95 of On Prayer: 153 Texts
of Evagrios the Solitary (345-399 AD)
You should be aware of this trick: at times the demons split into two groups; and when
you call for help against one group, the other will come in the guise of angels and drive
away the first, so that you are deceived into believing that they are truly angels.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 66)
117) Text 95 of On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works: 226 Texts
of Saint Mark the Ascetic (early 5th century AD)
Nothing is stronger than prayer in its action,
nothing more effective in winning God's favour.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 133)
118) Text 95 of On Watchfulness and Holiness
of Saint Hesychios the Priest (circa 7th century AD)
The unremitting remembrance of death is a powerful trainer of body and soul. Vaulting
over all that lies between ourselves and death, we should always visualize it, and even
the very bed on which we shall breathe our last, and everything else connected with it.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 178)
119) Text 95 of On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination: 100 Texts
of Saint Diadochos of Photiki (400-486 AD)
Humility is hard to acquire, and the deeper it is, the greater the struggle needed to gain it.
There are two different ways in which it comes to those who share in divine knowledge.
In the case of one who has advanced halfway along the path of spiritual experience,
his self-will is humbled either by bodily weakness, or by people gratuitously hostile
to those pursuing righteousness, or by evil thoughts. But when the intellect fully and
consciously senses the illumination of God's grace, the soul possesses a humility which
is, as it were, natural. Wholly filled with divine blessedness, it can no longer be puffed up
with its own glory; for even if it carries out God's commandments ceaselessly, it still considers
itself more humble than all other souls because it shares His forbearance. The first type of humility
is usually marked by remorse and despondency, the second by joy and an enlightened reverence.
Hence, the first is found in those half-way along the spiritual path, while the second is given
to those nearmg perfection. That is why the first is often undermined by material prosperity,
while the second, even if offered all the kingdoms of this world, is not elated and is proof
against the arrows of sin. Being wholly spiritual, it is completely indifferent to all material
glory. We cannot acquire the second without having passed through the first; for unless
God's grace begins by softening our will by means of the first, testing it through assaults
of the passions, we cannot receive the riches of the second.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 292) Full Text; Google Text
120) Text 95 of For the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: 100 Texts
of Saint John of Karpathos (circa 680 AD)
When there is no wind blowing at sea, there are no waves; and when no
demons dwells within us, our soul and body are troubled by the passions.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 320)
121) Text 95 of On the Character of Men: 170 Texts
of Saint Anthony of Egypt (251-356 AD)
When the soul is in the body it is at once darkened and ravaged by pain
and pleasure. Pain and pleasure are like the humours of the body. But
the intellect that enjoys the love of God, counter-attacking, gives pain
to the body & saves the soul, like a physician who cuts & cauterizes bodies.
The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD),
translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware,
Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 344)
122) 95th Verse of Chapter 2 in Lankavatara Sutra:
Mahamati the Bodhisatva-Mahasattva's Questions to the Buddha:
Do you ask me about Buddhas of Transformation,
Buddhas of Maturity [or Recompense]?
About Buddhas of the Knowledge of Suchness?
And whence is the Bodhisattva?
 The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD)
(translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 31)
123) Chapter 95 of Mohammed's Holy Koran is titled "The Fig"
I swear by the fig and the olive,
And mount Sinai,
And this city made secure,
Certainly We created man in the best make.
Then We render him the lowest of the low.
Except those who believe and do good, so they shall have a reward never to be cut off.
Then who can give you the lie after (this) about the judgment?
Is not Allah the best of the Judges?
Mohammed, Holy Koran Chapter 95.1-8 (7th century AD)
(translated by M. H. Shakir, Koran, 1983)
124) 95th Verse of Chapter 8 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
Since a neighbor and I are equal in desiring happiness,
what is the unique quality of the "self" which requires
an effort for happiness?
Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
VIII.95 (Perfection of Contemplation: Dhyana-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 202)
125) 95th Verse of Chapter 9 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara:
There is no entering into an atom by an atom;
it is equal (to the other atom) and without free space.
Without entering there is no mingling, there is no contact.
Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment
IX.95 (Perfection of Wisdom: Prajña-paramita) (circa 700 AD)
(translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 220)
126) Koan 95 of Joshu aka Chao-Chou (778-897):
Someone asked: "When one is confronted with disaster,
how can one avoid it?"
Joshu said, "That's it!"
 Note: The disaster lies only in the consciousness of "disaster".
Once you are in the midst of disaster— that's it!
Chao-Chou (778-897), Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu
translated with commentary by Yoel Hoffman,
Autumn Press, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1978, p. 46
127) Section 95 of Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds":
Someone asked Master Yunmen, "What is it like when
the tree has withered and the leaves fallen?"
The Master said, "That's wholly manifest: golden autumn wind."
 Master Yun-Men (864-949), Record of the Chan Master "Gate of the Clouds"
translated by Urs App, Kodansha International, NY & Tokyo, 1994, p. 131
128) Case 95 of Hekiganroku: Chokei and Hofuku Discuss the Buddha's Words
Main Subject: Chokei one day said, "Even if you say that the Arhats still
have three poisons, you should not say that the Buddha has two languages.
I do not say that the Buddha has no language but that he does not have two languages."
Hofuku said, "What is the Buddha's language?"
Chokei said, "How can a deaf person hear it?"
Hofuku said, "I know you are speaking from a secondary principle."
Chokei said, "What is the Buddha's language?"
Hofuku said, "Have a cup of tea."
Setcho's Verse:
Who speaks from the first, who from the second principle?
Dragons do not lie in puddles;
Where dragons lurk,
Waves arise when no wind blows.
Oh! You Ryo Zen monk,
You've bruised your head on the Dragon's Gate.
 Setcho (980-1052), Hekiganroku, 95 (Blue Cliff Records)
(translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977, pp. 388-389)
129) Section 95 of Chu Hsi's Chin-ssu lu:
Make up your mind for the sake of Heaven and Earth.
Establish the Way for the sake of living men.
Continue the learning that has been interrupted
for the sake of past sages. And inaugurate great peace
for the sake of the next ten thousand generations.
 Chu Hsi (1130-1200),
Reflections on Things at Hand (Chin-ssu lu)
translated by Wing-Tsit Chan
Columbia University Press, NY, 1967, p. 83
130)
Section 95 of Wang Yang Ming's Instructions for Practical Living:
I asked, "To hold the will firm is like having a pain in the heart.
As the whole mind is concentrated on the pain, how can there be time
for idle talk or being a busybody?"
The Teacher said: “This is good as an initial effort.
But the student must be made to understand that the spiritual
intelligence of the mind comes in and goes out at no definite time
and without anyone's knowing its direction, and that it is originally
this way. Only in this way can one'e effort find a solution. If one merely
holds his will rigidly, I am afraid his effort will encounter trouble.”
Wang Yang Ming (1472-1529),
Instructions for Practical Living or Ch'uan-hsi lu (1518), I.95
translated by Wing-tsit Chan,
Columbia University Press, NY, 1963, p. 58
131) 95th Section of Swedenborg's Worlds in Space (1758):
The stone bird was also a representation of the inhabitants of that world [Mars]
who in a strange manner transform the thoughts and affections of their life into
one which hardly exists... I was informed by angels that they were spirits from
the world of Mars, who possessed the trick of talking among themselves without
the other spirits present understanding or perceiving anything... they express
by means of the lips and face, so that others cannot understand them... But
although they fancy that their conversations among themselves are not intelligible
to others, still angelic spirits perceive all the details of their conversations
This is because not all the thoughts behind them can be withdrawn.
— Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), The Worlds in Space, 95
(translated from Latin by John Chadwick, Swedenborg Society, London, 1997, pp. 67-70)
132) Chapter 95 of Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened (1963) is titled "Inseeing":
It is often said that see-er, see-ing, and seen, or experiencer, experiencing,
and experiment, are one: this may, in a colloquial sense, be so. But it is also
said that there is no see-ing without a see-er, no experience (experiencing
or experiment) without an experiencer: this, however, is not so.
    As far as I happen to know, only Krishnamurti sems to have expressed
this correctly. Without a see-ing, an experiencing, there can be no see-er,
no experiencer. Neither before nor after a see-ing, an experiencing, is there
a see-er. am experience-er. The latter is produced in order to explain, or to
justify, the phenomenon. In fact he has never existed, and never could exist: he is just a
supposition invented pour les besoins de la cause— like the aether of an earlier generation
of scientists, who thought that if it did not exist it jolly well ought to— in order to justify
their ways of interpreting the sensually-perceived universe.
    As so often pointed out heretofore, 'see-ing', 'experiencing', signify the cognition
of all forms of manifestation, and indicate the 'pure perception' which is subsequently
interpreted as the apparent universe.
    That which is 'seen' or 'experienced' is as imaginary as the 'see-er' and 'experience-er':
both are interpretations of a movement in subjectivity which we term see-ing & experiencing.
— Wei Wu Wei (1895-1986), Ask the Awakened (1963), pp. 226-227 (Archive, Open Secret)
133)

Paul Brunton (1898-1981)
Notebooks of Paul Brunton
XVI, Paras #95
from various chapters
Volume 16:
Enlightened Mind,
Divine Mind
Burdett, NY, 1988,
Part 1:
pp. 16, 44, 91, 162, 202;
Part 2:
pp. 14, 50, 69, 84
Part 4:
pp. 13, 36-37

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

Para #95 from Volume 16, Part 1
of Paul Brunton's Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind—
Notebooks: "World-Mind in Individual Mind—
    An error of mysticism which must make the penetrative seek turn to
philosophy was the deification of man implicit in its claim that the mystic
can attain to union with God. There was some truth in this claim but
there was also some falsehood and certainly much confusion. (1.95)
    It is not only true that there is variety in the types of illumination
but also true that there is a scale of degrees in the illumination itself. (2.95)
    The undiscerning often believe that because some great saints have been
fools in worldly affairs, a saint who is always clever cannot be great.
Yet the spiritual aspirations which diminish a man's desire for worldly
activities do not therefore diminish his competence for them. He who is born
a fool usually remains so; he who is born clever usually stays so; and both
cases are unaffected by the attachment of the heart to God. (3.95)
    Could we but trace some of these higher movements of history,
we would have to trace their course back to the secret inspiration of some
illuminates who live quietly and serve mankind without advertising the fact. (4.95)
    He has to give out what those whom he is addressing can understand
and not outstrip their development. He may, for this purpose, either simplify
the teaching or keep back the more advanced portions, those dealing with the
transcendental mysteries. (5.95)
Para #95 from Volume 16, Part 2 of Paul Brunton's
Notebooks: "World-Idea"—
    The World-Idea works itself out in time, which is the form wherein
the thoughts appear, and in history, which is the record of time. (1.95)
Existence is an endless affair but it has periods of rest and withdrawal,
changes of form and body, of consciousness and selfhood. We are developments
brought forth from it and taken back into it. (3.95)
    It is within the ultimate capacity of man and part of the higher
purpose for him to achieve this awareness of his divine selfhood. (4.95)
Para #95 from Volume 16, Part 4 of Paul Brunton's
Notebooks: "The Alone"—
    That which both Greek Plato and Indian Vedantin called "the One" did not
refer to the beginning figure of a series, but to "One-without-a-Second". (1.95)
    Let us not devote ourselves and dishonour the Supreme Being by thinking
that we know anything at all about IT. We know nothing. The intellect may
formulate conceptions, the intuition may give glimpses, but thes are our
human reactions to IT. Even the sage, who has attained a harmony with his
Overself, has found only the godlike within himself. Yes, it is certainly
the Light, but it is for him, for the human being. He still stands as much
outside the divine Mystery as everyone else. The difference is that whereas
they stand in the darkness he stands in this Light. (2.95)
134) "We Create Our Mind Each Instant" is Lesson 95
of Subramuniyaswami's Merging with Siva (1999):
    The flower begins as the little seed and grows into a stem forming a bud.
We know nothing of the blossom until the bud opens, and we know little
of the bud after it has become a blossom. However, each process within
that growth to maturity is an experience for the plant. The seed contains
within itself its basic laws of growth. The stem will tell its own story as
it grows. The bud contains many experiences and has contained with it
a complete story of its own. As the blossom unfolds, it tells a radiant
autobiography of beauty
    In the philosophies of the Orient, the inner mind would look like
if you could see the mind. We can look at things on the material plane.
The ugly things tell us how ugly the mind can become. When we look
at the beautiful creations of nature, we see how lovely the mind can be.
    It is up to us to choose how we want to create the mind, conscious
and subconscious. I say "how we want to create the mind" because we are creating our mind
each instant. There is no past! That dream as it passes before our vision is right now. We call
it the past because we say we remember, but as we are remembering, we are recreating what
we are remembering in the present. There is no future! That is also a dream or a vision, just
like the past, because when we think of the so-called future we are recreating it before our
vision right now. Therefore, there is no past, there is no future. Now is the only apparent reality.
    Life is a series of decisions. Each instant, as we create the instant, we are creating the decision.
We are facing the reaction we caused to come before us, and in facing it with the power of principle
we are building the so-called future. So a man has two paths, and every moment is a moment of
judgment. Good judgment comes from concentration— directing the flow of thought.
It does not always have to be difficult to choose.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics
Himalayan Academy, Kapaa, Hawaii, 1999, pp. 197-199.
135) Koan 95 of Zen Master Seung Sahn—
Tail of a Golden Fish:
While staying at Dae Sung Sah Temple, Zen Master Kum Bong sent a letter
to Zen Master Man Gong which said, "I want to fish for a golden fish's tail.
Do you approve?"
    Man Gong sent a letter back saying, "It's okay if you catch
the tail of a golden fish, but can you eat it>"
  1. What is the meaning of catching a golden fish's tail?
  2. If Man Gong asked you, "Can you eat it," what could you do?
    What does this mean?
Commentary:
Beware, beware! A golden fish already ate up two masters.
Seung Sahn (1927-2004),
The Whole World Is A Single Flower
365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life,
Tuttle, Boston, 1992, p. 65
66 in Poetry & Literature
136) Verse 95 of Rubáiyát, of Omar Khayyam (1048-1122):
And much as Wine has play'd the Infidel,
And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour— Well,
I wonder often what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
(translated by Edward Fitzgerald, London, 1st Ed. 1859, 2nd Ed. 1868)
137) Condwiramur's beauty in the 95th Line of Eschenbach's Parzival:
Condwiramur, with thee I will
Compare this red and whiteness.
God enriches me with brightness,
Since here the like of thee I spy.
I praise the hand of God on high
And all the creatures that are His.
Condwiramur, thine image 'tis,
Since white snow under the blood doth show
And blood has rendered red the snow.
Wolfram von Eschenbach (1165-1217) Parzival (1195)
Book VI "Parzival at King Arthur's Court" Lines 88-96
(translated by Edwin H. Zeydel & Bayard Quincy Morgan,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1951, p. 145)
138) Book III, Verse 95 of Rumi's Mathnawi:
Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273),
Mathnawi, III.95-97, The Essential Rumi,
(Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, 1995, p. 281)
139) Beatrice smiles to Dante in the 95th line of Paradiso:
S'io fui del primo dubbio disvestito
per le sorrise parolette brevi,
dentro ad un nuovo più fu' inretito,
 		While I was freed from my first doubt by these
brief words she smiled to me, I was yet caught
in new perplexity. I said: "I was/content
Paradiso I.95-97 ( Allen Mandelbaum translation, 1984)
140) Verse 95 of Hafiz: The Tongue of the Hidden:
My life is spent; it was a precious sum
Spent like an arrow for the bow's short thrum.
    An arrow sped does not return; but oh,
Except Love, which lasts forever...
Come back, my Love, and back my life will come!
Hafiz (1320-1389), Hafiz: The Tongue of the Hidden, Verse 95
adaptation by Clarence K. Streit, Viking Press, NY, 1928
(Author on Time cover, March 27, 1950)
141) Line 95 from the Pearl Poet's Pearl: "here in all their splendour bright"
So gracios gle couthe no mon gete
As here and se her aduvvement.
So al was dubbet on dere asyse
That fryth ther fortwne forth me feres.
 		As here in all their splendour bright.
The splendour bright of that display,
The wood where fortune smiled on me,
The glory thereof to portray
Pearl (c. 1370-1400) Lines 95-98
(Ed. Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron, 1987, p. 59)
(This Pearl translation: by Bill Stanton, another by Vernon Eller)
142) Line 95 from the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
By champions of chivalry achieved in arms,
Or some suppliant came seeking some single knight
To join with him in jousting, in jeopardy each,
To lay life for life, and leave it to fortune
To afford hime on field fair hap or other.
 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375-1400) Lines 95-99
Translated by Marie Borroff, Norton, NY, 2010, p. 5 (Part I)
143) Man's virtues & vices in 95th Sonnet of William Shakespeare:
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O! in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose.
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
O! what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!
Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege;
The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets XCV, Commentary
144) 95th Poem of Thomas Cole:
A reminiscence of my perish'd love
Shone softly o'er my mind
It came as moonlight on the grove
Or music on the wind—
It had a sweet regretful power
Like fragrance from a withered flower—

Ye visitations from the fading past,
    Spirits o departed joys,
When gloom and sadness overcast,
    Then to my soul arise
And be like sunshine on the grave
Of hopes I loved but could not save—
    Come as the twilight of the day
    Whose summer now is past away—

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Thomas Cole's Poetry
(Compiled & Edited by Marshall B. Tymn, 1972)

Thomas Cole, Self-Portrait (1836)

145) Chapter 95 of Melville's Moby-Dick (1851):
Bible leaves! Bible leaves! This is the invariable cry from the mates to the mincer.
It enjoins him to be careful, and cut his work into as thin slices as possible,
inasmuch as by so doing the business of boiling out the oil is much accelerated,
and its quantity considerably increased, besides perhaps improving it in quality.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick, Chapter 95: The Cassock
146) 95th Poem of Emily Dickinson:
My nosegays are for Captives—
Dim— expectant eyes,
Fingers denied the plucking,
Patient till Paradise.

To such, if they should whisper
Of morning and the moor,
They bear no other errand,
And I, no other prayer.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by Thomas H. Johnson, 1955)
147) 95th New Poem of Emily Dickinson:
It is of Realm's unratified
that Magic is made.
Emily Dickinson (Letter 472 to Mrs. T.W. Higginson, late summer 1876)
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
(edited by William H. Shurr, University of North Carolin Press, 1993, p. 27)
148) "Secret of impassive earth" in Line 95 of Walt Whitman's Passage to India (1871):
Ah, who shall soothe these feverish children?
Who justify these restless explorations?
Who speak the secret of impassive Earth?
Who bind it to us? What is this separate Nature, so unnatural?
What is this Earth, to our affections?
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Passage to India Section 5, Lines 93-97
A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Vol. III, Poems, 1870-1891
(Edited by Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White
New York University Press, 1980, p. 567)
149)
95th Verse in Tagore's Gitanjali:
I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold of this life.
What was the power that made me open out into this
vast mystery like a bud in the forest at midnight!

When in the morning I looked upon the light
I felt in a moment that I was no stranger in this world,
that the inscrutable without name and form had taken me
in its arms in the form of my own mother.

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me.
And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away,
in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Gitanjali: Song Offerings (1912), Verse 95
Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941)
150) 95th Page lines in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, (12 samples):
Minster York? Do I min? I mind the gush off the mon like Bal- (95.2)
lybock manure works on a tradewinds day. And the O'Moyly (95.3)
my way! Ah dearome forsailoshe! Gone over the bays! When (95.6)
all the birds of the southside after her, Minxy Cunningham, their (95.9)
[heav-]ing up the Kay Wall by the 32 to 11 with his limelooking horse- (95.14)
bags full of sesameseed, the Whiteside Kaffir, and his sayman's (95.15)
fiunn! Goborro, sez he, Lankyshied! Gobuga ye, sez I! O (95.18)
breezes! I sniffed that lad long before anyone. It was when I was (95.19)
putting out her netherlights, and I'd sooner one precous sip at (95.24)
your pure mountain dew than enrich my acquaintance with that (95.25)
snappings and the sighings and the paintings and the ukukuings (95.32)
Nunsbelly Square. And all the buds in the bush. And the laugh- (95.36)
James Joyce (1882-1941), Finnegans Wake, (1939), p. 95
151) e. e. cummings published 95 Poems in 1958 (Norton).
This was the last book of new poems published in Cummings's lifetime.
Poem 95

if up's the word; and a world grows greener
minute by second and most by more—
if death is the loser and life is the winner
(and beggars are rich but misers are poor)
—let's touch the sky:
                                    with a to and a fro
(and a here there where) and away we go

in even the laziest creature among us
a wisdom no knowledge can kill is astir—
now dull eyes are keen and now keen eyes are keener
(for young is the year, for young is the year)
—let's touch the sky:
                                    with a great (and a gay
and a steep) deep rush through amazing day

it's brains without hearts have set saint against sinner;
put gain over gladness and joy under care—
let's do as an earth which can never do wrong does
(minute by second and most by more)
—let's touch the sky:
                                    with a strange (and a true)
and a climbing fall into far near blue

if beggars are rich (and a robin will sing his
robin a song) but misers are poor—
let's love until noone could quite be (and young is
the year, dear) as living as i'm and you're
—let's touch the sky:
                                    with a you and a me
and an every (who's any who's some) one who's we
e. e. cummings (1894-1962), 95 Poems (1958), "Poem 95"

95 Poems
152) Sonnet 95 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)
Whoever loved as we did? Let us hunt
for the ancient cinders of a heart that burned
and make our kisses fall one by one,
till that empty flower rises again.

Let us love the love that consumed its fruit and went
down, its image and its power, into the earth:
you and I are the light that endures,
its irrevocable delicate thorn.

Bring to that love, entombed by so much cold time,
by snow and spring, by oblivion and autumn,
the light of a new apple, light

of a freshness opened by a new wound,
like that ancient love that passes in silence
through an eternity of buried mouths.
Pablo Neruda
(1904-1973)
Nobel Prize 1971
Love Sonnet XCV, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien Sonetos de Amor
Editorial Losada, Buenos Aires, 1960 (trans. Stephen Tapscott, 1986, p. 201)
153) Poem 95 in Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems 1954-1986 (1987)
(There are 118 poems in this edition; Poem 95 is "Homeward")
HOMEWARDS

A telephone call rang out in the night
    and glittered over the countryside
    and in the suburbs.
Afterwrds I slept uneasily in the hotel bed.
I was like the needle in a compass carried
    through the forest by an orienteer
    with a thumping heart.
Tomas Tranströmer:
Selected Poems 1954-1986
Edited by Robert Hass
(translated by Robin Fulton)
Ecco Press, NY, 1986, p. 152
Tomas Tranströmer
(1931-2015)
Nobel Prize 2011
154) There are 126 poems in Robert Bly's Selected Poems (1986)
Poem #95 is a prose poem "THE CRY GOING OUT OVER PASTURES"—
I love you so much with this curiously alive and lonely body. It is a young hawk
sitting on a tree by the Mississippi, in early spring, before any green has appeared
on the earth beneath. I love you far in my chest, where walnut hollows fill with
crackling light and shadows... There birds drink from water drops we offer on
the tips of our fingers. My body loves you with what it extracts from the prudent
man, hunched over his colony of lizards; and with that it loves you madly,
beyond all rules and conventions.
    Even the six holes in the flute move about under the dark man's fingers, and the
piercing cry goes out overt the grown-up pastures no one sees or visits at dusk except
the deer, out of all enclosures, who has never seen any bed but his own of wild grass.
    I first met you when I had been alone for nine days, and now my lonely hawk body longs to be
with you, whom it remembers. It know how close we sould always be. There is death, but
also this closeness... this joy when the bee rises into the air above his hive to find the sun,
to become the son, and the traveler moves through exile and loss, through murkiness
and failure, to touch the earth again of his own kingdom and kiss the ground.
    What shall I say of this? I say praise to the first man or woman who wrote down
this joy clearly, for we cannot remain in love with what we cannot name...
— Robert Bly (born 12-23-1926), Selected Poems
    Harper & Row, New York, 1986, p. 140
    (2008 Stanford Workshops, Reading; Google Text)
155) There are 229 poems in Kay Ryan's
The Best of It (2010), 95th poem—

WHY ISN'T IT ALL MORE MARKED
Why isn't it all
more marked,
why isn't every wall
graffitied, every park tree
stripped like the
stark limbs
in the house of
the chimpanzees?
Why is there bark
left? Why do people
cling to their
shortening shrifts
like rafts? So
silent.
Not why people are;
why not more violent?
We must be
so absrorbent.
We must be
almost crystals.
almost all some
neutralizing chemical
that really does
clarify and bring peace,
take back sorrow
and make surcease.

Kay Ryan,
US Poet Laureate
2008-2010
— Kay Ryan (born 9-21-1945),
    The Best of It (New & Selected Poems),
    Grove Press, NY, 2010, pp. 114-115
    (2010 Stanford Workshops)
156)
There are 173 poems in Jane Hirshfield's
Women in Praise of the Sacred (1994)
(43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
95th poem is by Mirabai (1498-1565),
"O friends on this Path"—

O friends on this Path,
My eyes are no longer my eyes.
A sweetness has entered through them,
Has pierced through to my heart.
For how long did I stand in the house of this body
And stare at the road?
My Beloved is a steeped herb, he has cured me for life.
Mira belongs to Giridhara, the One who lifts all,
And everyone says she is mad.

— Jane Hirshfield (born 2-24-1953),
    Editor of Women in Praise of the Sacred
    (43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women)
    HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1994, p. 136
66 in Numerology
157) Numerology: words whose letters add up to 66

RESURRECTION:
9 + 5 + 1 + 3 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5 = 66

TRANSFORMATION:
2 + 9 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 6 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5 = 66

BUTTERFLY PEACOCK:
(2 + 3 + 2 + 2 + 5 + 9 + 6 + 3 + 7) + (7 + 5 + 1 + 3 + 6 + 3 + 2) = 39 + 27 = 66

FOREST PARADISE:
(6 + 6 + 9 + 5 + 1 + 2) + (7 + 1 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 1 + 5) = 29 + 37 = 66

GOLDEN JOURNEY:
(7 + 6 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 5) + (1 + 6 + 3 + 9 + 5 + 5 + 7) = 30 + 36 = 66

SPRING IRIS:
(1 + 7 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 7) + (9 + 9 + 9 + 1) = 38 + 28 = 66

WISDOM FOUNTAIN:
(5 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 6 + 4) + (6 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 5) = 29 + 37 = 66


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