On the Number 95

95 in Mathematics

The 48th odd number = 95

Product of the 3rd and 8th prime numbers = 5 x 19 = 95

Sum of the 27th & 38th composite numbers = 40 + 55 = 95

Sum of the 30th & 34th composite numbers = 45 + 50 = 95

Sum of the 14th abundant number & 15th composite number = 70 + 25 = 95

Sum of the 3rd, 5th and 22nd prime numbers = 5 + 11 + 79 = 95

Sum of the 1st, 5th, and 6th Mersenne numbers, (2ⁿ - 1): 1 + 31 + 63 = 95

Sum of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 9th square numbers = 1² + 2² + 3² + 9² = 1 + 4 + 9 + 81 = 95

Sum of the 1st, 5th, and 11th Fibonacci numbers = 1 + 5 + 89 = 95
(Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, 1170-1250)

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Square root of 95 = 9.746794345

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Cube root of 95 = 4.562902635

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ln 95 = 4.553876892 (natural log to the base e)

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log 95 = 1.977723605 (logarithm to the base 10)

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Sin 95^o = 0.996194698
Cos 95^o = -0.087155742
Tan 95^o = -11.4300523

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1/95 expressed as a decimal = 0.010526315

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The 49th & 50th digits of e = 95
The 51st & 52nd digits of e = 95
e = 2.7182818284 5904523536 0287471352 6624977572 4709369995
9574966967 6277240766 3035354759 4571382178 5251664274

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The 30th & 31st digits of pi, π = 95
The 129th & 130th digits of pi, π = 95
The 190th & 191st digits of pi, π = 95
The 388th & 389th digits of pi, π = 95
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
   8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196
   4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273
   7245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094

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The 167th & 168th digits of phi, φ = 95
The 171st & 172nd digits of phi, φ = 95
Phi or φ = 1.61803 39887 49894 84820 45868 34365 63811 77203 09179 80576
28621 35448 62270 52604 6281890244 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.

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Binary number for 95 = 01011111
(Decimal & Binary Equivalence; Program for conversion)

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ASCII value for 95 = _ (underline)
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)

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In computing, the list of displayable ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
characters comprises 26 uppercase letters, 26 lowercase letters, 10 digits, and 33 special characters,
including punctuations. That's a grand total of 95. (Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)
Derrick Niederman, Number Freak: From 1 to 200— Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed (2009), p. 220

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Hexadecimal number for 95 = 5F
(Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart)

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Octal number for 95 = 137
(Octal #, Hexadecimal #, & ASCII Code Chart)

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The 95th day of the year (non-leap year) = April 5
[French rococo painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was born on April 5, 1732]

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The Roman numeral for 95 is XCV.

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Jiu Shí Wu is the Chinese ideograph for 95.

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(60, 30, 5) is the Babylonian number for 95
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers,
Penguin Books, New York (1987), pp. 326-327

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The Hebrew letters He (5), Pe (80), Yud (10) add to 95
meaning "to shine, to be fair, beautiful"
(Hebrew Alphabet, Hebrew Gematria)

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When data follow a normal distribution (the bell curve shown at left),
the number 95 makes a more specific appearance. One nice thing about
such distributions is that their mans and standard deviations are either
known or readily calculated. It turns out that when data follow a bell curve,
95% of all observations are within two standard deviations of the mean,
as marked by the blue area to either side of the peak in the curve at left.
Derrick Niederman, Number Freak: From 1 to 200 (2009), p. 220

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95 in different languages:
Dutch: negentig-vijf, French: quatre-vingt-quinze, German: neunzig-fünf, Hungarian: kilencven-öt,
Italian: novanta-cinque, Spanish: noventa-cinco, Swedish: nittio-fern, Turkish: doksan-bes

95 in Science & Technology

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Atomic Number of Americium (Am) = 95 (95 protons & 95 electrons)
Americium is a radioactive silvery-white metal named after America.

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The 95 Percentile Person is 76 inches in height and weighs 225 lbs.
A 50 Percentile Person has an average height of 69.1 inches and weighs 172 lbs.

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Microsoft Windows 95 was released in August of 1995. It is a 32-bit system providing
full pre-emptive multitasking, advanced file systems, threading, networking and more.
Includes MS-DOS 7.0, but takes over from DOS completely after starting. Also includes
a completely revised user interface. (History of Microsoft Windows)

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Chemical Compounds with Molecular Weight = 95
Trifluro-acetonitrile, C₂F₃N = 95.0233
Trifluoromethylisocyanide, C₂F₃N = 95.0233
Methane sulfonamide, CH₅NO₂S = 95.121
Phosphoric triamide, H₆N₃OP = 95.0409

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Helium has a melting point of 0.95^o Kelvin (-272.20^oC, -457.96^oF)

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Petrol has a boiling point of 95^o Celsius (203^o Farenheit)

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50S Ribosomal Protein L21 is 95 amino acids long
with a molecular weight of 10399 Daltons.

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95th amino acid in the 141-residue alpha-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Arginine (R)
95th 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

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The 95th amino acid in the 153-residue sequence of sperm whale myoglobin
is Threonine (T). It is next to Alanine-94 & Lysine-96.
It is designated FG1, the five-residues random coil
region between the F-helix and G-helix.
— Richard E. Dickerson & Irving Geis,
The Structure and Action of Proteins (1969), p. 52
[A.B. Edmundson, Nature 205, 883-887 (1965)]

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The 95th amino acid in the 124-residue enzyme Bovine Ribonuclease
is Cysteine (C). It is next to Asparagine-94 and Alanine-96.
It is linked to Cysteine-40 by Sulphur bridges (4 pairings in the enzyme).
[C. H. W. Hirs, S. Moore, and W. H. Stein, J. Biol. Chem. 238, 228 (1963)]

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Messier M95 (M95, NGC 3351) is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy situated in constellation Leo,
and one of the fainter Messier Objects. It is 38 million light years from Earth. Pierre Méchain
discovered M95, together with M96, March 20, 1781. Charles Messier included it in his catalog
on March 24, 1781. Alan Sandage, in the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, calls it a "typical ringed galaxy".
Its overall appearance is quite similar to M91 except that M95 has more pronounced spiral
structure. One supernova has been found in M95 so far: Supernova 2012aw, discovered on
March 16, 2012 by Paolo Fagotti & Alessandro Dimai of the Italian Supernovae Search Project.

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NGC 95 is a single star in the constellation Pisces (Image)

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Asteroid 95 Arethusa is a large main-belt asteroid. Its coloring is dark, its composition
carbonaceous & primitive. Discovered by Robert Luther on November 23, 1867, and
named after Arethusa in Greek mythology. Arethusa has been observed occulting a
star three times: first on February 2, 1998, and twice in January 2003. It has mass of
2.6x10¹⁸ kg with dimension 136.04 km, and a period of 5.36 years (1959.5 days) .

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95 kilometers per hour is the
maximum speed of a dragonfly.
the world's fastest insect.
— William Hartston,
The Book of Numbers
(2nd Edition, 2000), p. 141
Photo Source: todayifoundout.com

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Swany Rose
Category: Groundcover
Seed: Rosa sempervirens
Pollen: Mlle Marthe Carron
Bred in: France by Meilland
Color: pure white
Type: cupped, very double
Size: 1.5'x 6'
Fragrance: mild fragrance
Petals: 95 petals Year: 1978

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Tupolev Tu-95 is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber
and missile platform. First flown in 1952, Tu-95 entered service with Soviet Union
in 1956 and is expected to serve the Russian Air Force until at least 2040. Over 500
were produced from 1952-1994. The Tu-95 is one of the loudest military aircraft,
purportedly because the tips of the propeller blades move faster than the speed
of sound. Two Russian Bear-H bombers Tu-95 capable of carrying nuclear weapons—
flew over the western Pacific island of Guam just hours before President Obama's
state of the union address (2013) and were intercepted by Air Force F-15 jets.
Photo Source: dailymail.co.uk

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T95 was an American prototype medium tank developed from 1955 to 1959.
These tanks used many advanced features, such as siliceous-cored armor,
a new transmission, and the OPTAC fire-control system. The T95 tank was
created using a traditional design with a driver in the front, the fighting
compartment in the center, and the engine compartment in the rear.
The tank had a four-man crew, consisting of a commander, a gunner,
a loader, and a driver. Weight=38.2 tons; Length=10.18 meters;
Width=3.15 meters; Height=2.85 meters; Speed=56 km/hr.

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T-95 is the common informal designation of a Russian 4th generation tank
that was under development at Uralvagonzavod before being cancelled
in May 2010. The project was first reported in 1995 and announced by
Russian official sources in 2000, but no concrete data had been released.
It was due to be introduced in 2009, but was repeatedly delayed. Tank
was designed with crew of 3; weight=55 tons; speed=80 km/hr.

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Santa Fe Locomotive 95 began life in December 1967 as Santa Fe 105,
running Los Angeles to Chicago streamliners routes. In May 1990
to avoid conflicting with the new 100-class GP60M's, the unit was
renumbered again to ATSF 95, and managed to hang on to that
designation for the remainder of its career. In July 1998, the unit
suffered a cracked engine block and was sidelined for good.
Santa Fe 95 Locomotive is preserved at the Western America
Railroad Museum in Barstow, California.
Photo Source: modeltrainlocomotives.blogspot.com

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Saab 95 is a seven-seater, two-door station wagon made by Saab.
It was in production from 1959-1978. The first engine was an 841 cc
three-cylinder two-stroke. Its wheelbase was 98.4 inches with length
of 169.3 inches. The Saab 9-5 is an executive car that was produced
by the Swedish automobile maker Saab from 1997-2012. Saab badged
the model as the Saab 9⁵, but consistently advertised it as the Saab 9-5,
pronounced "nine five" rather than "ninety-five". Photo: moibbk.com

95 in Mythology & History

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Martin Luther (1483-1546) nailed the "Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences"
commonly known as the 95 Theses to the Church's door at Wittenberg (October 31, 1517)
and gave birth to the Protestant Reformation.

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British writer John Evelyn found 95 stones at Stonehenge (Diary, July 22, 1654).
John Ray (1662) & Sir John Clerk (1727) found 94 stones. Jonathan Swift (1730) found 93 stones.
Christopher Chippindale, Stonehenge Complete (1994), p. 46. (Stonehenge & Druids)

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Erte at Ninety-Five was published in 1987 by E.P. Dutton. 163 of Erte's work
in serigraph and other graphic methods were reproduced in full color. (Erte's art)

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95 B.C.— • Marcus Porcius Cato, the younger (95 BC-46 BC), Roman politician was born.
• Philip I Philadelphus & Antiochus XI Ephiphanes succeed as co-rulers
after the deposition of Seleucus VI Epiphanes.

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95 A.D.— • The Quintilian (35-95 AD), Roman rhetorician died.
• Frontinus is appointed superintendent of aqueducts (curator aquarum) in Rome.
• Roman emperor Domitian is also a Roman Consul.

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95th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army.
Today it exists as the 95th Training Division, a component of the U.S. Army
Reserve headquartered at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Activated too late to deploy
for WW I, the division remained in the Army's reserve until World War II,
when it was sent to Europe. Renowned for fighting back fierce German
counterattacks, the division earned the nickname "Iron Men of Metz" for
fighting to liberate and defend the town. After World War II, the division
spent another brief period in reserve before being activated as one of the
Army's training divisions. (Photo Source: wikipedia.org)

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At Age 95:

Teiichi Igarashi (born 9-21-1886, died ?)— Just inside the front
entrance of the Gogoen Rest House at the Fuji Subaru Line
5th Station, there is a bronze statue erected in honor of Teiichi
Igarashi who on August 8, 1988 scaled Mount Fuji at age of 105.
Igarashi was a retired forest ranger & lumberjack from Furudono,
Fukushima who started climbing Japan's tallest peak annually in
1976 in memory of his deceased wife. So at the time of his feat in
1988, he already held record as oldest person to reach Mt. Fuji's
summit & had renewed his record for 13 years in a row. Igarashi
climbed the 12,385-foot summit in 1982 at age 95. News Archive:
"100-Year-Old Conquers Mount Fuji" (Associated Press, 8-2-1987).

Cellist Pablo Casals (1876-1973) comments: "Age is a relative matter.
If you continue to work and absorb the beauty of the world about you,
you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not
in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before,
and for me life grows more fascinating." Casals dies at 96 (1993). At 81,
he had married Marta Montanez (20), and they went on to develop the
Casals Festival. At age 85, Casals was invited to the White House by
President John F. Kennedy (November 13, 1961) where he charmed
Jackie with his virtuso performance on the cello (Recording: 1, 2).
[Sources: Jeremy Baker, Tolstoy's Bicycle (1982), pp. 514-515; Web Links: Teiichi Igarashi, Pablo Casals.]

Joel Henry Hildebrand (1881-1993) was an American educator &
a pioneer chemist. He was a major figure in physical chemistry
research specializing in liquids and nonelectrolyte solutions.
He joined UC Berkeley as a chemistry instructor in 1913, and
was granted Full Professorship in 1919. He served as Dean of
College of Chemistry (1949-1951). He retired from full-time
teaching in 1952 but remained Professor Emeritus at Berkeley
until his death. Hildebrand Hall on the Berkeley campus is
named for him. He worked with undergraduate students even
at the age of 100. His book Viscosity and Diffusivity: A Predictive
Treatment (June 1977) was published when he was 95-years-old.
"Is there a "hydrophobic effect"? PNAS, 76, 194 (1979); Obituary.

Harold A. Scheraga (born Oct. 18, 1921),
American physical chemist of proteins and macromolecules,
Cornell University Todd Professor Emeritus in Chemistry
is still active at age 95 (2016), doing both experimental & theoretical
research on protein structure folding & the mechanism of action
of thrombin on fibrinogen (an important reaction in the blood
clotting process). Scheraga has published over 1170 scientific
articles, and is an active editorial & advisory board member
of nine scientific journals. He continues to give seminars
both at Cornell and around the world. In 2005, he received
a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Gdansk.
Published at 89: G.G. Maisuradze, P. Senet, C. Czaplewski, A. Liwo,
& H.A. Scheraga, "Investigation of protein folding by coarse-grained
molecular dynamics with the UNRES force field" in J. Phys. Chem.
A 114, 4471-4485 (2010). "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 site)

95 in Geography

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Cities located at 95^o longitude:
Houston, Texas: 95^o 23' W longitude & 29^o 46' N latitude
Tulsa, Oklahoma: 95^o 56' W longitude & 36^o 08' N latitude
Dibrugarh, India: 95^o 00' E longitude & 27^o 29' N latitude
Banda Aceh, Indonesia: 95^o 19' E longitude & 5^o 33' N latitude
(Note: 10-15-2016 College Football: Houston Cougars beats Tulsa 38-31.)

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95 is used as the country code for telephones in Myanmar (Burma).

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European Route E95 is a road in Europe and a part of the UN
International E-road network. Approximately 1,570 miles long,
it connects St Petersburg with Merzifon in north central Turkey.
Between its northern terminus in Russia and its southern end,
it passes in addition through Belarus and Ukraine. Between
the ports of Odessa/Chornomorsk on Ukraine's southern coast
and ports of Turkey (particularly, Samsun) vehicles are required to cross the Black Sea
by ferry over a distance of 455 miles. Russian hard rock band Alisa has a song called
"Trassa E-95" dedicated to the road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

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I-95 is the major north-south highway along the East Coast of the U.S.
It runs largely parallel to the Atlantic Ocean and U.S. Highway 1,
serving areas between Florida and New England. Construction of
Interstate-95 Pennsylvania was approved in 1947, concluded in 1960.
It was later named the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.
Its length is 1,919.74 miles with longest stretch in Florida (382 miles).

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I-95 of the New Jersey Turnpike runs 122 miles from
Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge.
It was constructed in 1950-1952.

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California Star Route 95 (1934) is now part of US 395, a 557-mile route
which traverses from Interstate 15 near southern city limits of Hesperia,
north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake. It clips
into Carson City and Reno, Nevada, before returning to California.
U.S. Route 95 in California is 116.721 miles long, traverses through far
eastern edges of both Riverside & San Bernardino counties. US 95 serves
Blythe and Needles and junctions with SR 62 at Vidal Junction.

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King's Highway 95 was one of two King's Highways serving Wolfe Island,
an island township in the middle of the St. Lawrence River near Kingston,
Ontario. Highway 95 ran from north-to-south across Wolfe Island,
while adjacent Highway 96 ran from east-to-west across the island.
Years in existence: 1934-1998; On January 1, 1998, Highway 95 was
downloaded to the Township of Frontenac Islands, and is now known
as Township Road 95. Southern Terminus: Port Alexandria Ferry Dock;
Northern Terminus: Hwy 96— Marysville; Length in 1997
(Before Downloading): 11.4 km (7.1 miles).

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State Highway 95 is a New Zealand state highway connecting the town
of Manapouri with Te Anau at State Highway 94. The highway is a major
tourist road and skirts eastern border of Fiordland National Park between
Lake Te Anau and Lake Manapouri. Despite affording views of the scenic
mountain ranges of Fiordland, the road itself is largely flat and passes
through agricultural land. The 12.7 miles long road lies on the Southern
Scenic Route between Queenstown and Dunedin via Invercargill.

66)

95th Street, Fort Hamilton is the next and last stop of the BMT 4th Avenue Subway Line
in New York City. The island platform has exits to 93rd at the north end and 95th
at the south end of the full mezzanine with booths at both ends.

67)

95th Street (Chicago) is a major east-west highway on Chicago's South Side and
in the southwest suburbs, designated as 9500 South in Chicago's address system.
95th Street is 11 miles (18 km) south of Madison Street. Chicago State University
is located on 95th Street between Cottage Grove and King Drive.

68)

The Shard also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge,
and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark,
London, that forms part of London Bridge Quarter development. Standing
309.6 metres (1,016 feet) high, the Shard is the tallest building in the UK,
the 105th tallest building in the world, and the fourth tallest building in
Europe. The Shard's construction began in March 2009 and completed
on 30 March 2012. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable
floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the
72nd floor (height 802 feet). Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano.

69)

Construction began on Vista Tower (September 7, 2016) that will be
the third-tallest building in Chicago. The Vista Tower will be a $1 billion,
95-story, 1,186-foot structure comprised of Vista residences and a five-star
hotel. One-bedroom apartments start at $1 million. Award-winning architect
and Chicago native Jeanne Gang, who also designed the well-known nearby
Aqua Tower, designed the Vista Tower as well, making it the largest-ever
designed by a female architect. Project will take three years to complete &
will create thousands of construction jobs and more than 500 permanent
jobs once the building opens. Address: 363 East Wacker Drive, Chicago.

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Stanford Bronze Plaque 95 is on the ground at Stanford
University's Memorial Church quadrangle. The Class of 1895
plaque (left) is one pace from front door of Memorial Church.
Class of 1995 plaque (right) is two paces to the left of Building
80's front door (Dept. of Anthropology). The first graduating
class at Stanford was 1892. In 1980, Stanford Provost Donald
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 (Photos by PYC).

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95 University Avenue is the location of Palo Alto's Train & Bus Depot.
The cross street is Mitchell Lane. Palo Alto Train Station is a gateway to
Stanford University. It is also the main transfer point between SamTrans
and VTA buses as it is located near the county border of San Mateo and
Santa Clara counties. VTA Bus 35 goes through Palo Alto to downtown
Mountain View. Bus 22 and Bus 522 (Express) run on El Camino Real
to Eastridge, San Jose. Dumbarton Express goes to Freemont. Stanford
Marguerite Shuttle Buses stop on driveway by southbound platform.

SamTrans: Bus ECR goes to Daly City Bart. Bus KX, Bus 292, & Bus 397 serve SF Airport and San Francisco.

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95 Fifth Avenue New York City is located at the southeast corner of 17th Street & Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
17th Street is a pedestrian thoroughfare to Union Square. This 9-stories building was built in 1920 (Photo).

95 in Art, Books, Music, & Films

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Woodblock Print #95 from 100 Views of Edo
"The Tone River and Goose Hill"
by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Brooklyn Museum
Hiroshige's Woodblock #95 inspired this haiku:
Pine trees on the cliff,
sailboats cruise the river,
in the distance— Mt. Fuji!
From heights of Könodai, a site fortified by a series of military barons in the
medieval period, Mount Fuji is clearly prominent in the distance. This long bluff
along eastern side of the Tone, now the Edogawa River is the first high ground of
any sort east of the Sumida River, allowing an uninterrupted panorama to the
southwest over the seven-mile interval of flat delta area stretching out to Fuji.
On an autumn day looking at three figures on a long bluff on the eastern side
of the Edogawa River and a view of Mt. Fuji at the right. This cliff served as a
regional military center from early times and was the location of the capital of
Shimoosa Province in ancient Japan when it was given the name of Kofufu no Dai,
"Provincial Capital Bluff," shortened to Konodai. This fortified site was crushed
by the Hojo of Odawara in a battle in 1564. Konodai has been best known for its
role in Takizawa Bakin's epic novel "Biographies of the Eight Dogs" (1814-1841).
Literary Reference: Brooklyn Museum (brooklynmuseum.org);
Photo Source: Hiroshige Woodblock Print #95 (hiroshige.org.uk)

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Krishna Print #95 shows "Krishna lifting Govardhan Hill to protect residents of Vrindavana from
heavy rains sent by Indra" from Krishna Darshan Art Gallery featuring 188 paintings of Lord Krishna.

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Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 95 Christus, der ist mein Leben (Christ, he is my life), BWV 95
was composed in Leipzig for 16th Sunday after Trinity and first performed on Sept. 12, 1723.
The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Ephesians, praying for
the strengthening of faith in the congregation of Ephesus (Ephesians 3:13-21), and from the
Gospel of Luke, raising from the dead of the Young man from Nain (Luke 7:11-17). The cantata
in seven movements is scored for three vocal soloists (soprano, tenor and bass), a four-part
choir, horn, two oboe d'amore, two violins, viola, violoncello piccolo and basso continuo.
The only aria of the cantata is dominated by oboes and accompanied by pizzicato in the
strings which symbolizes funerary bells. English translation of score; (YouTube).

76)

Joseph Haydn's Symphony 95 in C minor (Hoboken I/95) is the third
of the twelve London symphonies (numbers 93-104) written by Haydn.
It is the only one of the twelve London symphonies in a minor key,
and is also the only one of them to lack a slow introduction. It was
completed in 1791 as one of the set of symphonies composed for
his first trip to London. It was first performed at the Hanover Square
Rooms in London during the season of 1791. The work is in standard
four-movement form and scored for flute, two oboes, two bassoons,
two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

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95 Pounds of Hope (2003) by Anna Gavalda with message "Never give up on yourself".
Story follows Gregory on his journey through school and life. Gregory is having a pretty
rough go of it. He is not doing well in school. He has been held back twice— once in the
3rd grade and a second time in 6th grade. His parents constantly fight and argue with
each other and with him. They tell him that he and his bad grades and lack of determination
are the reason they fight and yell all the time. And on top of all that, doctors have diagnosed
him with ADD. But Gregory has a talent. He can build just about anything he sets his mind to.
His favorite place in the world is in Grandpa Leon's workshop.

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Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial (1997) by David A. Wheeler (Springer-Verlag) is a
tutorial explaining basics of the Ada computer programming language and assumes
that you have had some exposure to some other algorithmic programming language
(such as Pascal, C, C++, Fortran, or BASIC). The author encourages buying a copy
instead of using the "free" electronic version. The book has been professionally
edited, with errors removed. Some material is only available in the book.
This includes a set of end-of-lesson questions that will be very useful in
classroom settings. Also diagrams that aren't in the on-line version.

79)

95 Miles to Go is a 2004 comedy film which documents Ray Romano's eight-day
drive through the south on a stand-up comedy tour becomes more than he bargains
for when longtime friend and opening act, Tom Caltabiano, brings a film student
along to document their thousand-mile journey. Together, all three struggle with
Ray's obsessions, phobias, and insecurities in this unscripted exploration of
newfound fame. Directed by Tom Caltabiano, the film premiered at Deep Ellum
Film Festival in October 2004 and released theatrically in the U.S. in April 2006
by THINKFilm. It premiered on HBO on July 10, 2007. (Film Reviews: IMDB;
Rotten Tomatoes); (YouTube: Trailer, 7-cities tour, Documentary); Web site.

80)

95 Worlds and Counting is a Science Documentary film on moons of our
Solar System hosted by John Lithgow and aired by Discovery Channel
in 2000. Jupiter's fireball of a moon Io, with more heat than anything
but the sun. Neptune's moon Triton, so piercingly cold that everything
including the air, is frozen solid. Jupiter's moon Europa with the only
other liquid water ocean that may even harbor life. There are moons
where you'd weigh no more than a mouse, where you can throw a ball
around the entire body, and where a good jump sends you a mile and
a half into the air. (Film Reviews: IMDB; SchoolTube); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3).

95 in Sports & Games

81)

Baseball's 95th World Series (1999): New York Yankees defeats Atlanta Braves 4-0.
This was a rematch of the 1996 World Series where the Yankees defeated the Braves 4-2.
Game 1: Yankees 4-Braves 1; Game 2: Yankees 7-Braves 2; Games 3: Yankees 6-Braves 5
(10 innings); Game 4: Yankees 4-Braves 1. Relief pitcher Mariano Rivera was Series MVP.
Yankees were World Series for the 25th time, twice in a row after beating Padres in 1998.

82)

Lou Gehrig ranks 17th for most extra-base hits in a season by a left-handed batter— 95,
Babe Ruth ranks 1st (119); Lou Gehrig ranks 2nd (117) and 9th (100).
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Booka, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 124

83)

Joe Medwick & Albert Pujols rank 16th for most extra-base hits in a season by right-handed batter— 95,
Hank Greenberg, Albert Belle, and Sammy Sosa rank 1st (103); Albert Pujols ranks 6th (99).
Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Booka, 3rd Ed. (2007), p. 125

84)

Rickey Henderson sets single season stolen bases with 130. His 95th stolen base came on
July 27, 1982 against David Goltz of California Angels when he stoled 2nd base in 9th inning.

85)

Los Angeles Lakers' Magic Johnson holds the record for most assists made— 95,
in a 7-game NBA Finals Series against the Boston Celtics (1984)
The Official NBA Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed. (2000), p. 878

86)

Los Angeles Lakers' Jerry West holds the record for most free throw attempts — 95,
in a 6-game NBA Playoff Series against the Baltimore Bullets (1965)
The Official NBA Encyclopedia, 3rd Ed. (2000), p. 870

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Football Players with Uniform #95—

Richard Dent #95
Chicago Bears (1983-93, 1995)
San Francisco 49ers (1994)

William Fuller #95
Houston Oilers (1986-1993)
Philadelphia Eagles (1994-96)

Chad Hennings #95
Dallas Cowboys (1992-2000)
SuperBowl XXVII, XXVIII, XXX

Greg Lloyd #95
Pittsburgh Steelers
(1988-1997)

Bryce Paup #95
Green Bay (1990-94)
Buffalo Bills (1995-1997)

Richard Dent (b. December 13, 1960) is a former American football defensive end, who played primarily for Chicago Bears
of the National Football League. He was MVP of Super Bowl XX. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
"The sackman's comin'. I'm your man Dent. If the quarterback's slow,, he's gonna get bent."— words of Bears' 265-pound singer
before Super Bowl XX against New England Patriots. Bears won 46-10, setting records for sacks (7), fewest rushing yards
allowed (7), and margin of victory (36 points). Dent had 1.5 quarterback sacks, forced two fumbles, and blocked a pass,
was named the game's Most Valuable Player (MVP). Chicago Bears records for career sacks (124.5), single season (17.5),
and single game (4.5), before going to SF 49ers in 1994, winning another Super Bowl XXIX against San Diego Chargers 49-26.
William Fuller (b. March 8, 1962)s a retired American football player who played defensive end for 13 seasons in the NFL.
This mobile pass-rushing machine earned 4 Pro Bowl invitations— one with the Houston Oilers and three with the Eagles.
Fuller was one of the better pass rushers in the NFL during his time in the league and finished his career with 100.5 sacks.
Chad Hennings (b. October 20, 1965) is a former American football defensive tackle for the Air Force Academy Falcons
and Dallas Cowboys. He won the Outland Trophy in his senior year of college in 1987, leading the nation with 24 sacks.
With the Dallas Cowboys, he won three Super Bowl championships (XXVII, XXVIII, XXX) in the 1992, 1993, 1995 seasons.
Greg Lloyd (b. May 26, 1965) is a former American football linebacker who played in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers
(1988-1997). This man of steel could rush the passer or drop into coverage, skills verified by his career totals of 54.5 sacks &
11 interceptions. An elite outside linebacker with 5 Pro Bowl invitations. Twice Pittsburgh Steelers Team MVP (1991, 1994).
Bryce Paup (b. February 29, 1968) is a former American football player who played as an outside linebacker for Green Bay
Packers (1990-94), Buffalo Bills (1995-97), Jacksonville Jaguars (1998-99), and Minnesota Vikings (2000 & 2002). In 1995,
his first season with the Buffalo Bills, Paup was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year by the Associated Press.
Paup led the NFL with 17.5 sacks, the fourth-highest single-season total of the 1990s.
Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), p. 216; Photo Sources: Richard Dent (ep.yimp.com);
William Fuller (vshfm.com); Chad Hennings (bestsportsphotos.com); Greg Lloyd (greglloyd95.com); Bryce Paup (bestsportsphotos.com)

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.

95 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 #95 Mole Man
Marvel Team-Up #17, p. 17
Artist: Gil Kane
Comic Issues containing this stamp:
Amazing Spider-Man #136, September 1974
Daredevil #116, December 1974, p. 19
Ka-Zar #12, November 1975, p. 19

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)

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.

95 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

95 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

95 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"

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 absorbent.
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

95 in Numerology

157)

Numerology: words whose letters add up to 95

AIR FIRE WATER EARTH:
(1 + 9 + 9) + (6 + 9 + 9 + 5) + (5 + 1 + 2 + 5 + 9) + (5 + 1 + 9 + 2 + 8) = 19 + 29 + 22 + 25 = 95

ETERNAL ENLIGHTENMENT:
(5 + 2 + 5 + 9 + 5 + 1 + 3) + (5 + 5 + 3 + 9 + 7 + 8 + 2 + 5 + 5 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 2) = 30 + 65 = 95

GOETHE PHILOSOPHY:
(7 + 6 + 5 + 2 + 8+ 5) + (7 + 8 + 9 + 3 + 6 + 1 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 7) = 33 + 62 = 95

GRAIL TRANSFORMATION:
(7 + 9 + 1 + 9 + 3) + (2 + 9 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 6 + 6 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5) = 29 + 66 = 95

PROTEIN DIRECTION:
(7 + 9 + 6 + 2 + 5 + 9 + 5) + (4 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5) = 43 + 52 = 95

SERPENT PILGRIMAGE:
(1 + 5 + 9 + 7 + 5 + 5 + 2) + (7 + 9 + 3 + 7 + 9 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 7 + 5) = 34 + 61 = 95

SPRING INITIATION:
(1 + 7 + 9 + 9 + 5 + 7) + (9 + 5 + 9 + 2 + 9 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5) = 38 + 57 = 95

TRIGRAMS REFLECTION:
(2 + 9 + 9 + 7 + 9 + 1 + 4 + 1) + (9 + 5 + 6 + 3 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 9 + 6 + 5) = 42 + 53 = 95

Note: An earlier version of "On the Number 95" was completed on 10-30-2003 for my Mom's 95th birthday
containing 62 items with poem "Meditations on 95". For my Cornell Professor H. A. Scheraga's 95th birthday,
I've expanded "Number 95" to more than 157 items, including 45 postage stamps with 95 denominations,
collectables with cards #95, Route #95 signs, Football players with #95 uniforms, Art, Music, Books, and
Movies with #95 in their titles, Quotes from books on Philosophy & Poetry passages associated with #95.
Airplane, Tanks, Locomotive, and Saab Car with #95 numbering were also added in this newer edition.
Many photos were resized and texts formatted so none of the images were cropped while printing at 72%.
This project took 19 days to complete (October 13-November 1, 2016).