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97 in Mathematics
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| 1) | The 49th odd number = 97 | ||||||||
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The 25th prime number = 97 (largest two-digit prime number following 89 & preceding 101) | ||||||||
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The 11th member of the Mian-Chowla sequence = 97 (1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 21, 31, 45, 66, 81, 97, 123) | ||||||||
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The highest two digit number whtere the sum of is digits is a square 97: 9 + 7 = 16 = 4 x 4 = 42 | ||||||||
| 5) | Sum of the 4th and 9th square numbers = 16 + 81 = 97 | ||||||||
| 6) | Sum of the 1st odd number & 21st abundant number = 1 + 96 = 97 | ||||||||
| 7) | Sum of the 2nd square number & 22nd lucky number = 4 + 93 = 97 | ||||||||
| 8) | Sum of the 25th even number & 25th odd number = 48 + 49 = 97 | ||||||||
| 9) | Sum of the 2nd cube number & 24th prime numbers = 8 + 89 = 97 | ||||||||
| 10) | Sum of the 17th odd number & 4th cube number = 33 + 64 = 97 | ||||||||
| 11) | Sum of the 3rd & 13th triangular numbers = 6 + 91 = 97 | ||||||||
| 12) | Sum of the 6th & 11th Fibonacci numbers = 8 + 89 = 97 | ||||||||
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Sum of the 6th, 9th, and 10th Fibonacci numbers
= 8 + 34 + 55 = 97 (Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci, 1170-1250) | ||||||||
| 14) | Sum of the 1st, 4th, & 21st lucky numbers = 1 + 9 + 87 = 97 | ||||||||
| 15) | Sum of the 2nd, 3rd, & 21st lucky numbers = 3 + 7 + 87 = 97 | ||||||||
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Sum of the 1st & 68th
composite numbers = 4 + 93 = 97 | ||||||||
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Sum of the 11th & 55th
composite numbers = 20 + 77 = 97 | ||||||||
| 18) | Square root of 97 = 9.8488578 | ||||||||
| 19) | Cube root of 97 = 4.5947 | ||||||||
| 20) | ln 97 = 4.57471 (natural log to the base e) | ||||||||
| 21) | log 97 = 1.98677 (logarithm to the base 10) | ||||||||
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Sin 97o = 0.99254615 Cos 97o = -0.12186934 Tan 97o = -8.144346428 | ||||||||
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1/97 expressed as a decimal = 0.010309278 | ||||||||
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The 35th & 36th digits of e = 97 e = 2.7182818284 5904523536 0287471352 6624977572 4709369995 9574966967 6277240766 3035354759 4571382178 5251664274 2746639193 2003059921 8174135966 2904357290 0334295260 5956307381 3232862794 3490763233 8298807531 9525101901 1573834187 9307021540 8914993488 4167509244 7614606680 (Note: The 99th-108th digits of e = 7427466391 is the first 10-digit prime in consecutive digits of e. This is the answer to the Google Billboard question that may lead to a job opportunity at Google.com, San Jose Mercury News, 7-10-2004) | ||||||||
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The 12th & 13th digits of pi, π = 97 The 38th & 39th digits of pi, π = 97 The 55th & 56th digits of pi, π = 97 | ||||||||
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The 81st & 82nd digits of
phi, φ = 97 The 271st & 272nd digits of phi, φ = 97 Phi or φ = 1.61803... is an irrational number, also called the Golden Ratio (or Golden number). Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) first called it the sectio aurea, (Latin for the golden section) and related it to human anatomy. Ratios may be found in the Pyramids of Giza & the Greek Parthenon. | ||||||||
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Binary number for 97 = 1100001 (Decimal & Binary Equivalence; | ||||||||
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ASCII value for 097 = a (ASCII Code Chart) | ||||||||
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Hexadecimal number for 97 = 61 (Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart) | ||||||||
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Octal number for 97 = 141 (Hexadecimal # & ASCII Code Chart) | ||||||||
| 31) | The Greek-based numeric prefix heptanonaconta- means 97. | ||||||||
| 32) | The Latin word nonaginta septem means 97. | ||||||||
| 33) | The Roman numeral for 97 is XCVII. | ||||||||
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Jiu Shí Chi (9, 10, 7) is the
Chinese ideograph for 97.
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 (60, 30, 7)
is the
Babylonian number for 97Georges 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
Tzadi (90) & Zayin (7)add to 97 meaning "to bind or fasten" (Hebrew Alphabet, Hebrew Gematria) | ||||||||
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97 in different languages: Dutch: negentig-zeven, French: quatre-vingt-sept, German: neunzig-sieben, Hungarian: kilencven-hét, Italian: novantina-sette, Spanish: noventa-siete, Swedish: nittio-sju, Turkish: doksan-yedi | ||||||||
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97 in Science & Technology | |||||||||
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Atomic Number of
Berkelium (Bk) = 97 (97 protons & 97 electrons) Berkelium is a radioactive rare earth metal, named after University of California at Berkeley (USA). It was discovered by Glenn T. Seaborg in 1949. Apparently, berkelium tends to accumulate in the skeletal system. It is of no commercial importance and only a few of its compounds are known. Atomic mass = 247. | ||||||||
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Atomic Weight of
Technetium Isotope (97Tc43) = 97 Technetium is the lightest element whose isotopes are all radioactive; none are stable, excluding the fully ionized state of 97Tc. The most stable radioisotope 97Tc has a half-life of 4.21 million years. Technetium was discovered and isolated by Emilio Segré in 1937 at University of Palermo in Sicily. | ||||||||
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Chemical compounds whose molecular weight is
97: Difluoronitromethane, CHF2NO2 = 97.0209 Sodium glycinate, C2H4NNaO2 = 97.0484 Pyridine, 3-fluoro-, C5H4FN = 97.0904 Hexanenitrile, C6H11N = 97.1582 Isoxazole, 3,5-dimethyl-, C5H7NO = 97.1152 | ||||||||
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Organic compounds whose melting or boiling point is
97oC: n-Butyraldehyde, CH3(CH2)2CHO, MP = -97oC Allyl Alcohol, CH2=CHCH2OH, BP = 97oC n-Propyl Alcohol, CH3CH2CH2OH, BP = 97oC Propyl 4-Hydroxybenzoate, HOC6H4CO2CH2CH2CH3, MP = 97oC | ||||||||
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The 97th amino acid in the 141-residue alpha-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Aspartic Acid (D) The 97th amino acid in the 146-residue beta-chain of Human Hemoglobin is Histidine (H) 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 97th amino acid in the 153-residue sequence of
sperm whale myoglobin is Histidine (H) [A.B. Edmundson, Nature 205, 883-887 (1965)] X-ray structure of myoglobin shows that Histidine-97 is two amino acids away from end of the F-helix 86-95 [H.C. Watson, Progr. Stereochem. 4, 299 (1969)] | ||||||||
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The 97th amino acid in the 124-residue enzyme Bovine Ribonuclease is Tyrosine (Y) It is next to Alanine-96 and Lysine-98 [C. H. W. Hirs, S. Moore, and W. H. Stein, J. Biol. Chem. 235, 633 (1960)] | ||||||||
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Single α-helix (SAH) domains are rich in charged residues (Arg, Lys, Glu) and stable in solution over a wide range of pH and salt concentrations. 97-residues peptide from myosin-10 that contained residues 813-909 behaved as a SAH domain with 67% helical with circular dichroism studies. Marcin Wolny, et. al., Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 289, 27825-27835 (2014) | ||||||||
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NGC 97 is a elliptical galaxy estimated to be about 230 million light-years awayin the constellation of Andromeda. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1828 and its apparent magnitude is 13.5. Its size is 104,200 light years across. From Los Altos, California NGC 97 is visible all night. It will become visible at around 20:10 (PDT) as the dusk sky fades, 23o above your eastern horizon. It will be lost to dawn twilight at around 05:48, 38o above your western horizon. | ||||||||
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Asteroid 97 Klotho is a fairly large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by
Ernst Tempel on February 17, 1868. It was his fifth and final asteroid discovery. It is named after Klotho or Clotho, one of the three Moirai, or Fates, in Greek mythology. Clotho was responsible for spinning the thread of human life, and is shown with a spindle. The asteroid has mass of 1.33x1018 kg, dimension 82.83 km, and a period of 4.37 years. | ||||||||
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Lockheed F-97 Starfire: The USAF was impressed that in February 1950they purchased the unarmed L-188 demonstrator under designation YF-97. At the same time, the USAF ordered a fully militarized prototype YF-97 under the serial number 50-877. 180 production examples were ordered under the designation F-97A. The company designation for the F-97A was Model 880. On Sept. 12, 1950, the YF-97 was redesignated YF-94C. Dimensions: Wingspan 42'5", length 44'6", height 14'11", Weights: 12,708 pounds empty, 18,300 pounds loaded. Performance: Maximum speed: 640 mph at sea level. Photo Source: pinterest,com | ||||||||
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Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter is a long-range heavy military cargo aircraftdeveloped from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. Design work began in 1942, with the prototype's first flight being on 9 November 1944, and the first production aircraft entered service in 1947. Between 1947 & 1958, 888 C-97s in several versions were built, 811 being KC-97 tankers. C-97s served in the Berlin Airlift, Korean War, and Vietnam War. Some aircraft served as flying command posts for the Strategic Air Command, while others were modified for use in Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadrons (ARRS). C-97 aircraft was retired in 1978. Photo Source: wikipedia.org | ||||||||
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N97 Submarine was from the Polish Navy.
A submarine of the U classbuilt by Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.). HMS Urchin was loaned to the Polish Navy on 11 January 1941. Commissioned as ORP Sokol (Falcon) on 28 January 1941. Returned to the Royal Navy on 3 August 1946. Scrapped in 1949. WW II events: 2 Nov 1941: It sank Italian merchant Balilla 20 nautical miles north-west of Capo San Vito, Sicily. 12 Feb 1942: ORP Sokol sank Italian auxiliary patrol vessel Giuseppina with gunfire about 30 nautical miles south of Sfax, Tunisia. Photo Source: uboat.net | ||||||||
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Type 97 Chi-Ha Tank was a medium tank used by
the Imperial JapaneseArmy during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battles of Khalkhin Gol against the Soviet Union, and Second World War. It was the most widely produced Japanese medium tank of WW II. The Type 97's low silhouette and semicircular radio antenna on the turret distinguished the tank from its contemporaries. After 1941, the tank was less effective than most Allied tank designs. In 1942, a new version of the Chi-Ha was produced with a larger three-man turret, & a high-velocity Type 1 47 mm tank gun. It was designated the Type 97-Kai. Type 97 Chi-Ha Tank was designed in 1936. 1162 were built (1938-1943) plus 930 of Type 97-Kai. Weight: 15.8 tons; Length: 18'1"; Width: 7'8"; Height: 7'3"; Crew: 4; Speed 24 mph. Photo Source: commons.wikimedia.org | ||||||||
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Steam Locomotive 97: The Mobile & Gulf Railroad was incorporated in Alabamaon July 1, 1925, to acquire and operate a line of railroad in Fayette and Tuscaloosa counties, Alabama. About 1930, Brown Wood Preserving Company built a creosote plant at Brownville, AL, on the M&G. which soon became a major source of traffic for the line. Late in 1946 the Brown sawmill at Fayette burned and was not rebuilt. In 1948 the section of line between Fayette and Brownville was abandoned, leaving 11 miles in operation between that point and Buhl. Number 97, the last M&G steam locomotive, was retired on August 22, 1970, making M&G the last common carrier in US to use a steam locomotive. M&G was abandoned in 1984. Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster on Sept. 27, 1903 of Southern Railway mail train. Photo Source: brownvillealabama.com | ||||||||
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STS-97 Space Shuttle Endeavour:
On their 11-day mission, the astronauts completedthree spacewalks, or EVAs, to deliver and connect the first set of U.S.-provided solar arrays to the International Space Station, prepare a docking port for arrival of the U.S. Laboratory Destiny, install Floating Potential Probes to measure electrical potential surrounding the station, install a camera cable outside the Unity module, and transfer supplies, equipment and refuse between Endeavour and the station. Five-men Crew: Commander Brent Jett, Pilot Michael Bloomfield, Mission Specialists Joseph Tanner, Marc Garneau and Carlos Noriega. Flight was launched on Nov. 30, 2000 and landed on December 11, 2000 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. On Flight Day 3, Commander Brent Jett linked Endeavour to ISS while 230 statute miles above northeast Kazakhstan. STS-97 travelled 4.5 million miles on this journey. Photo Source: science.ksc.nasa.gov | ||||||||
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Graham 1938 Model 97 Supercharged Auto:
Graham-Paige was an American automobilemanufacturer founded by brothers Joseph Graham, Robert Graham, & Ray Graham in 1927. Automobile production ceased in 1940, and its automotive assets were acquired by Kaiser-Frazer (1947). New 1938 Graham introduced with slogan "Spirit of Motion". The fenders, wheel openings & grille all appeared to be moving forward. Design was widely praised in American press & by American designers. It also won the prestigious Concours D'Elegance in Paris, France. Wins were also recorded in Prix d'Avant-Garde at Lyon, the Prix d'Elegance at Bordeaux, and Grand Prix d'Honneur at Deauville, France. Its cut-back grille later gained the car the name "sharknose". Photo Source: 1zoom.me | ||||||||
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1931 Willys Overland Six 97 Coach Automobile:
Willys was a brand name used byWillys-Overland Motors, an American automobile company best known for its design and production of military Jeeps and civilian versions (CJs) during the 20th century. In 1926, Willys-Overland introduced a new line of small cars named Willys-Overland Whippet. During depression of the 1930s, many Willys automotive brands faltered. Stearns-Knight was liquidated in 1929. Whippet production ended in 1931, its models replaced by the Willys Six and Eight. Production of the Willys-Knight ended in 1933. At All Collectors Cars, 1931 Willys Overland-Model 97 Roadster is on sale for $40,995. Photo Source: amazon.com | ||||||||
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97 in Mythology & History | |||||||||
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The 97th day of the year (non-leap year) =
April 7 [Spanish missionary, St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) was born on April 7, 1506; British poet, William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born April 7, 1770; American industrialist, W.K. Kellogg (1860-1951) was born April 7, 1860; American jazz singer, Billie Holiday (1915-1959), was born April 7, 1815.] | ||||||||
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The 97th day of the year (leap year) =
April 6 [Italian painter, Raphael (1483-1520) was born on April 6, 1483; American actor, Walter Huston (1884-1950) was born on April 6, 1884; Dutch airman, Anthony Fokker (1890-1939) was born on April 6, 1890; American explorer, Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) was born on April 6, 1981; American baritone, Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) was born on April 6, 1927] | ||||||||
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97 B.C. was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Crassus (or, less frequently, year 657 Ab urbe condita). • According to Christianity, birth of Saint Joseph, husband of Saint Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his "earthly-father". According to this account, Joseph was 92 years old when Jesus was born. | ||||||||
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97 A.D.—
Pope Evaristus
succeeds Pope Clement I; Historian Tacitus advanced to consulship; • The Roman emperor Nerva recalls the general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus, 44, from the Rhine and formally adopts him in October at ceremonies in the temple of Jupiter in the Capitol. — James Trager (Ed.), The People's Chronology (1979), p. 39 | ||||||||
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The Gregorian calendar has a cycle of 400 years, during which time there are 97 leap years. In theory, you'd expect one leap year every four years, for a total of 100, but only one of the four "century years" in a 400-year span (the one that's divisible by 400) is a leap year. — Derrick Niedermanm, Number Freak, A Perigee Book, NY, 2009, pp. 221-222. | ||||||||
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97th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Armyin World War I and World War II. Nicknamed the Trident division because of its shoulder patch, a vertical trident in white on a blue background, it was originally trained in amphibious assaults as preparation for deployment in Pacific Theater, it was deployed to Europe in 1944 when casualties from Battle of the Bulge needed to be replaced. Active: 9/5-11/20/1918 & 2/25/1943-3/31/1946. Photo Source: Trident Logo (commons.wikimedia.org) | ||||||||
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97 passengers on the Hindenburg airship when it exploded on May 6, 1937, of whom 35 died (Topps Scoop Card #20). — William Hartston, The Book of Numbers, Metro Books, London, 1997, p. 142. | ||||||||
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Bodybuilder Charles Atlas
claimed he was a 97 poundsweakling who gets sand kicked in his face by a bully. Then he sent for a free 32-page book Dynamic Tension that was advertised in comic books on body building— "I Can Make YOU a New Man, In Only 15 Minutes a Day!" He went back on the beach & beat up the bully and won his girlfriend back. Atlas' "Dynamic Tension" program consists of twelve lessons and one final perpetual lesson. His products & lessons have sold millions. Atlas became the face of fitness. Among those who took Atlas' course were Max Baer, heavyweight boxing champion (1934-1935), Rocky Marciano,heavyweight boxing champion (1952-1956), and Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion (1937-1949). | ||||||||
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The Marching 97 is the renowned marching band of Lehigh University.Infamous for their inane antics, the band is named for its 97 members, comprised of 12 ranks of 8 members each for a total of 96 musicians— add a drum major, bringing to 97 people. The first Lehigh University Band was formed in 1906. It has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the 1964 World's Fair, bowl games, and London, England, much illustrious history to be proud of. Photo Source: Marching 97 Logo (marching97.org) | ||||||||
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97th United States Congress was a meeting
of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate (100) and the United States House of Representatives (435). It met in Washington, D.C. from January 3, 1981, to January 3, 1983, during final weeks of Jimmy Carter's presidency & first 2 years of Ronald Reagan's presidency. Major events: Iran hostage crisis ended (1-20-1981); First space shuttle launched (4-12-1981); Senate confirmed first female U.S. Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor (9-21-1981). | ||||||||
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born June 10, 1921),husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth, retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, at the age of 96, after having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952. At age 97, he attends his grandson Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 19 May 2018. Wedding photo shows him seating to the right of QE and in front of Prince Charles' wife Camilla. Teiichi Igarashi (born Sept. 21, 1886), climbed Mt. Fuji, 12,385 feet in 1982 at age 97. Each year, starting at age 90, he has made the ascent of the sacred mountain. On July 20, 1986, Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji at the age of 99. .jpg)
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937),
was an American oil industrybusiness magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, and the richest person in modern history. Rockefeller was also the founder of the University of Chicago & Rockefeller University. At age 86, Rockefeller penned the following words to sum up his life: "I was early taught to work as well as play, / My life has been one long, happy holiday; / Full of work and full of play— / I dropped the worry on the way— / And God was good to me everyday." When he died in 1937 at age 97, his fortune was estimated at $1.4 billion, while the total national GDP was $92 billion. As a percentage of the U.S.' GDP, no other American fortune— including those of Bill Gates or Sam Walton— would even come close. Photo: J.S. Sargent's 1917 painting of J.D. Rockefeller (commons.wikimedia.org) .jpg)
Sir Robert Mayer (1879-1985),
was a German-born philanthropist,businessman, and a major supporter of music & young musicians. Mayer became a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1902. His wife, soprano Dorothy Moulton (d. 1974), an avant garde singer whom he married in 1919, encouraged him to continue his interest in music. At age 97, he goes on a tour of the USA (1976) with London Schools Symphony Orchestra which he had founded in 1951 at the age 72. His 100th birthday in 1979 was a national celebration that included a gala concert at Royal Festival Hall, attended by Queen Elizabeth II. Published autobiography My First 100 Years in 1979. Photo: bbc.co.uk
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97 in Geography | |||||||||
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Cities located at 97o longitude: Salina, Kansas: 97o 39' W longitude & 38o 48' N latitude Wichita, Kansas: 97o 25' W longitude & 38o 20' N latitude Columbus, Nebraska: 97o 20' W longitude & 41o 28' N latitude Norfolk, Nebraska: 97o 26' W longitude & 41o 59' N latitude Grand Forks, North Dakota: 97o 24' W longitude & 47o 57' N latitude Ardmore, Oklahoma: 97o 1' W longitude & 34o 18' N latitude Norman, Oklahoma: 97o 29' W longitude & 35o 15' N latitude Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 97o 36' W longitude & 35o 24' N latitude Ponca City, Oklahoma: 97o 6' W longitude & 36o 44' N latitude Stillwater, Oklahoma: 97o 5' W longitude & 36o 10' N latitude Watertown, South Dakota: 97o 9' W longitude & 44o 55' N latitude Yankton, South Dakota: 97o 23' W longitude & 42o 55' N latitude Austin, Texas: 97o 42' W longitude & 30o 18' N latitude Corpus Christi, Texas: 97o 30' W longitude & 27o 46' N latitude Denton, Texas: 97o 6' W longitude & 33o 12' N latitude Fort Worth, Texas: 97o 3' W longitude & 32o 50' N latitude Waco, Texas: 97o 13' W longitude & 31o 37' N latitude Bhamo, Myanmar: 97o 23' E longitude & 24o 25' N latitude Kyaikto, Myanmar: 97o 01' E longitude & 17o 30' N latitude Orizabaz, Mexico: 97o 06' W longitude & 18o 51' N latitude | ||||||||
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97 is not used as a code for
international direct dial
phone calls. (Codes beginning with 97: 970 = Palestinian Authority, 971 = United Arab Emirates, 972 = Israel, 973 = Bahrain, 974 = Qatar, 975 = Bhutan,7 976 = Mongolia, 977 = Nepal, | ||||||||
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European Route E97 is an A-class European Routein Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey. Highway runs for 1,360 kilometers (850 miles). It connects the North Black Sea region with South Black Sea region along eastern shores of the sea. | ||||||||
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US Highway 97 is a major north-south U.S. highway
in the western U.S.It begins at a junction with Interstate 5 at Weed, CA, and travels north, ending in Oroville in Okanogan County, Washington, at the Canada-US border, across from Osoyoos, British Columbia, becoming British Columbia Highway 97 upon entering Canada. Major cities that lie on US 97 include Klamath Falls, Bend, and Redmond in Oregon and Yakima, Ellensburg, and Wenatchee in Washington. Existed since 1926; Length 663 miles. | ||||||||
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Interstate 97 is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs entirelywithin Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The intrastate Interstate runs 17.62 miles from U.S. Route 50 & US 301 in Parole near Annapolis north to I-695 & I-895 in Brooklyn Park near Baltimore. I-97 connects Annapolis with Baltimore-Washington International Airport & links northern Anne Arundel County communities of Crownsville, Millersville, Severna Park, Glen Burnie, and Ferndale. It is the shortest primary Interstate Highway. | ||||||||
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Michigan Highway 97ran for 17.17 km (27.6 miles) following Groesbeck Highway from 1929-present. South Terminus: M-3 at Detroit; M-102 near Warren; I-696 near Roseville North Terminus: M-59 near Mount Clemens. | ||||||||
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State Highway 97
(SH-97) is a state highwayin Kootenai County, Idaho. The highway runs for 35.745 miles (57.526 km) from State Highway 3 to Interstate 90 (I-90) along the east side of Lake Coeur d'Alene, passing through the community of Harrison. The entire highway is designated as the Lake Coeur d'Alene Scenic Byway. | ||||||||
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King's Highway 97ran for 69.1 km (42.9 miles) in South Ontario, Canada from 1938-1984. Western Terminus: Hwy 59 at Hickson; Eastern Terminus: Hwy 6 at Freelton. Decommissioned in 1984; Current Names: Oxford Road 8, Waterloo Road 97 & Hamilton Road 97 | ||||||||
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New Zealand State Highway 97 (SH 97) connectsthe settlements of Five Rivers (on SH 6) and Mossburn (on SH 94) in Southland region. The highway was gazetted in 2004 to reflect the increasing amount of traffic between the tourist destinations of Queenstown and Fiordland National Park & provides a bypass of town of Lumsden, where SH 6 and 94 intersect. Photo: commons.wikimedia.org | ||||||||
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241 West 97th Street is a building in Manhattan, NYC.Built in 1923 by architects Schwartz & Gross, this full service pre-war condominium has 24-hour doormen, porters, & a live-in superintendent. 241 West 97th Street comprises only 56 units in this half of the building. Perfectly located on 97th St. between West End Avenue and Broadway, The Sabrina is a short walk from Riverside and Central Parks. Westside Market is located on the ground floor of the building while Whole Foods is a short walk away. | ||||||||
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1 East 97th Street is a pre-war, neo-Georgian-style apartmentbuilding at 1160 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner at 97th Street. It is six-stories tall and has a canopied entrance facing Central Park. The building, which is also known as 1 East 97th Street, has 70 rental apartments. It was built and designed by Fred F. French Co., in 1923. It is a few blocks south of Mt. Sinai Hospital and a few block north of Museum Mile on Fifth Ave and many of the units have fireplaces. The building has a full-time doorman and sidewalk landscaping, but not garage, no sundeck and no balconies. At one point, Charles Mingus, the great jazz bassist, lived in the building. | ||||||||
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97 Fifth Avenue is located between East 17th Street & East 18th Street,Manhattan. This attractive late 19th Century office building has been converted to rental apartments. The building has 12-foot-high ceilings. The 8-story building, which is owned by the J. & R. Kalimian Trust, has 28 apartments and a three-story rusticated limestone base. It was designed in 1898 by Robert Maynicke. It is 3 blocks north of 14th Street where there is excellent cross-town bus service and this location is convenient not only to Greenwich Village & Union Square, but also Chelsa & Flatiron Districts. There are many restaurants & boutiques in this neighborhood as well as Barnes & Noble and Whole Foods. | ||||||||
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Sports Players with Uniform #97—
• Cornelius Bennett (born 8-25-1965) is a former American football linebacker who played for Buffalo Bills from 1987 to 1995, Atlanta Falcons from 1996 to 1998, and Indianapolis Colts from 1999 to 2000. Bennett was a five-time Pro Bowler, being elected in 1988, and 1990-1993, and won the AFC Defensive Player of the Year award twice (1988 and 1991). His career statistics include 1190 tackles, 71.5 quarterback sackes, 31 forced fumbles, and 7 interceptions. Card #560 of Pacific 1991 NFL trading cards shows him as linebacker for the Buffalo Bills (see above). • Simeon Rice (born 2-24-1974) is a former American football defensive end. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals third overall in the 1996 NFL Draft. He is 20th all-time in sacks (122) in NFL history. In his 12-year NFL career, Rice recorded 122 sacks, forced 25 fumbles, recovered 8, & intercepted 5 passes. He earned three Pro Bowl selections & earned a Super Bowl ring with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl XXXVII, beating the Oakland Raiders 48-21 (2003). He has also played for the Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts and New York Sentinels. • Bryant Young (born 1-27-1972) is a former American football defensive tackle for the San Francisco 49ers of the NFL. A first round draft pick out of University of Notre Dame, he played the defensive tackle position. He is currently the defensive line coach for Atlanta Falcons. Young was nominated for the 2019 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Won Super Bowl champion (XXIX) beating San Diego Chargers 49-26 (1995). Career statistics, Sacks: 89.5, Tackles: 618. • Jeremy Roenick (born 1-17-1970) is an American former professional ice hockey player who played the majority of his career in the National Hockey League. He played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Phoenix Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks over the course of his 18 NHL season career and represented Team USA in numerous international tournaments. On November 10, 2007, he became the third American-born player (Joe Mullen & Mike Modano were the first two) to score 500 goals. After Chicago Blackhawks traded him to Phoenix Coyotes in 1996, Roenick dumped his #27 jersey for #97, saying "maybe '97 will be my first Stanley Cup." it wasn't, but in 2005-2006, Roenick was wearing 97 in his first year with Los Angeles Kings. Reference: Sporting News, Best By Number: Who Wore What With Distinction (2006), p. 218; Photos: Cornelius Bennett (sportsworldcards.com); Simeon Rice (theplayerstribune.com); Bryant Young (bestsportsphotos.com); Jeremy Roenick (people.davidjoel.co) | ||||||||
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Baseball's
97th World Series (2001): Arizona Diamondbacks defeats New York Yankees 4-3. Considered one of the greatest World Series of all time, memorable aspects included two extra-inning games and three late-inning comebacks. Diamondbacks pitchers Randy Johnson & Curt Schilling were both named World Series MVP. Game 1 (10/27): Diamonbaks 9-Yankees 1, Game 2 (10/28): Diamondbacks 4-Yankees 0, Game 3 (10/30): Yankees 2,-Diamondbacks 1 Game 4 (10/31): Yankees 4-Diamondbacks 3 (10 innings), Game 5 (11/1): Yankees 3-Diamondbacks 2 (12 innings), Game 6 (11/3): Diamondbacks 15-Yankees 2, Game 7 (11/4): Diamondbacks 3-Yankees 2. The World Series began later than usual, due to a delay in the regular season after the September 11 attacks at World Trade Center in NYC. As a result, the Series was the first to extend into November. This was the first World Series championship for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the earliest (4 years) an MLB franchise had ever won a World Series. | ||||||||
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Rickey Henderson had his 97th stolen base (2nd base) againstAl Williams of the Minnesota Twins on 7-30-1982 when he set the season stolen base record of 130 in 1982. | ||||||||
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Lowest Career Batting Average by a Pitcher ranked 48th with .097— George A. Smith, John Montefusco, Sandy Koufax, Scott Anderson. Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 21 | ||||||||
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Most Extra-base Hits in a Season, since 1893, ranked 25th with 97— Babe Ruth (1927), Hack Wilson (1930), Joe Medwick (1937), Juan Gonzales (1998). Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 123 | ||||||||
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Fewest Walks per 9 Innings in a Season, since 1893, ranked 27th with .097— Jesse Tannehill (Pittsburgh, 1902), Cy Young (Boston, 1903), Christy Mathewson (NY, 1908 & 1915) Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 256 | ||||||||
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Most Stolen Bases in a Seaon, since 1893, ranked 9th with 97— Ron LeFlore (Montreal, 1980); (#1 Rickey Henderson 130 in 1982, #2 Lou Brock 118 in 1974, #3 Vince Coleman 110 in 1985) Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 335 | ||||||||
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Most Times Ejected from a Major League Game as a Manager ranked 3rd with 97— Earl Weaver; (#1 Bobby Cox 123, #2 John McGraw) Lyle Spatz (Ed.), The SABR Baseball List & Record Book, Scribner, NY (2007), p. 367 | ||||||||
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20-year old Pittsburgh Steelers' wide-receiver Juju Smith-Schuster
scored a 97-yard touchdown during a 20-15 victory on October 29, 2017, against the Detroit Lions. The 97-yard touchdown reception was the longest pass play in team history (Video). It was also the longest touchdown in the 2017 NFL season. He made a season-high 7 receptions for 193 receiving yards in the game. | ||||||||
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97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis:
John McEnroe beats
Chris Lewis
(6-2, 6-2, 6-2) on July 3, 1983. | ||||||||
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97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis:
Martina Navratilova beats
Zina Garrison (6-4, 6-1) on July 8, 1990. | ||||||||
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97th U.S. Tennis Open:
Guillermo Vilas beats
Jimmy Connors (2-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-0) on September 11, 1977. | ||||||||
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97th Kentucky Derby
was won by Canonero II
in 2:03.2 with Jockey Gustavo Avila aboard (May 1, 1971). | ||||||||
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97th Preakness Stakes
was won by Canonero II
in 1:54 with Jockey Gustavo Avila aboard (May 15, 1971). | ||||||||
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97th Belmont Stakes
was won by Hail to All
in 2:28.6 with JockeyJohn Sellers aboard (June 5, 1965). | ||||||||
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97th U.S. Golf Open
was won by Ernie Els
at Blue Course of Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland,, held June 12-15, 1997. He shot 276 (4 under par). | ||||||||
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#97 Ford Fusion won the 2004 NASCARNextel Cup Series Championship. It was the 56th season of professional stock car racing in the U.S. and the 33rd modern-era Cup series season. The season began on Saturday, Feb. 7, and ended on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2004. Kurt Busch with Roush Racing driving a Ford was the Nextel Cup champion. Photo Source: 97 Ford Sharpie (tradingpaints.com) | ||||||||
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.jpg) 1997 China Panda Gold Coin, 100 yuan, 1 oz. Obverse: Panda & Bamboo Reverse: Temple of Heaven Mintage: 30,457 | ||||||||
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1997 Jackie Robinson Silver Dollar,Obverse: Jackie Robinson, 1997 Date Reverse: 50th Anniversary, One Dollar Mintage: 140,182 Minted at: San Francisco Designers: William Cousins & James Peed Diameter: 38.1 mm; Weight: 26.73 grams Composition: 99.93% Silver | ||||||||
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1897-S Morgan Silver Dollar,Obverse: Liberty Head, 1897 Date Reverse: Eagle Emblem, One Dollar Mintage: 5,825,000 Minted at: San Francisco Designer & Engraver: George T. Morgan Diameter: 38.1 mm; Weight: 26.73 grams Composition: 90% Silver, 10% Cooper | ||||||||
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There are 100 Marvel Value Stampsissued 1974-1976 in Marvel Comic Books Stamp #97 Black Knight appeared as a cover in Marvel Super-Heroes #17 Artist: John Romita, Sr. Comic Issues containing this stamp: Invaders #3, November 1975, p.32.(affects story), Master of Kung Fu #23, December 1974, p.19, Werewolf by Night #20, August 1974, p.19 | ||||||||
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There are 200 cards in
Wings: Friend or Foe (Topps 1952) Card #97 is C-124 Globemaster II, Air Force Transport Plane
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There are 160 cards in
World on Wheels (Topps 1953) Card #97 is Packard 1953 Patrician Four Door Sedan
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There are 135 cards in
Look 'n See (Topps 1952) Card #97 is Jules Verne (Writer) (Source)
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There are 156 cards in
Scoop (Topps 1954) Card #97 is Captain Kidd Hanged (May 24, 1701)
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| 106) | U.S. & Canada Postage Stamps with Scott Catalogue #97:
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| 107) | Foreign Postage Stamps with 0.97 Euro denomination: Note: Stamps were downloaded & resized in same proportion as originals.
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Krishna Print 97 depicts "Krishna & Radha dancing together" from the Krishna Darshan Art Gallery featuring 122 paintings of Lord Krishna. | ||||||||
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Books with 97 in the Title
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"Hyakunin Isshu poem 97" is a poem by
Fujiwara no Sadaie (1162-1241) (compiled by Fujiwara no Teika, 1235): Like the salt sea-weed, Burning in the evening calm. On Matsuo's shore, All my being is aflame, Awaiting her who does not come.. | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Dictionary of Literary Biography "German Writers from the Enlightenment to Sturm und Drang, 1720-1764" James Hardin (Editor), Gale Research, Detroit, 1990 Authors covered in this volume were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the late 18th-century blossoming of German literature, philosophy and culture called Classicism. In this period, German was finally accepted as the standard literary language, critical journals were established and basic concepts of democracy were widely discussed. Since there is a significant break in the tradition of German letters just before the period covered here, an essay entitled "German Transformation from Baroque to the Enlightenment" is provided in the appendix. | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Literary Criticism from 1400 to 1800 covers the following writers: Robert Dodsley, Edward Gibbon, Rachel Speght, William Warburton Michael L. LaBlanc (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2004 | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism covers these writers: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Ugo Foscolo, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Southey Juliet Byington (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2001 | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism covers the following writers: Hall Caine, W.C. Handy, Robert McAlmon, Augustus Thomas, Ridgely Torrence, W.B.L. Trotter, Alfred North Whitehead. Jennifer Baise (Ed.), The Gale Group, Farmington Hills, MI, 2000 | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Contemporary Literary Criticism covers writers: Isabel Allende, Margaret Avison, Anita Desai, Andre Dubus, Henry Green, John Hersey, Walter Mosley, Severo Sarduy, David Shields Deborah A. Stanley (Editor), Gale Research, Detroit, 1997 | ||||||||
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Volume 97 of the
Bollinger Series
is St.-John Perse's Collected Poemspublished by Princeton University Press (March 23, 1972). Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) was a French poet-diplomat. Awarded 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." In his Nobel Speech (Stockholm, December 10, 1960)— "It is up to the true poet to bear witness among us to man's double vocation. And that means holding up to his mind a mirror more sensitive to his spiritual possibilities. It means evoking in this our century a human condition more worthy of original man. It means, finally, bringing the collective soul into closer contact with the spiritual energy of the world." (Note: In my Bollingen Series: Catalogue 1970-1971, p. 61: Misread LXXXVII (87) for LXXXXVII (97), while writing about St.-John Perse. Keeping his important message rather than deleting this section #117.) | ||||||||
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Felix Mendelssohn's Opus #97
is Charistus, fragments of an unfinished oratorio published posthumously by his brother Paul. First performance took place in 1852 at Düsseldorf. (YouTube: Monteverdichor Würzburg, Szolnok City Symphony) | ||||||||
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Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata 97
In allen meinen Taten(In all that I do / In all my undertakings), BWV 97 is a church cantata by J.S. Bach. The text consists of the unchanged words of the hymn by Paul Fleming (1642). Bach wrote the chorale cantata in 1734, about a decade after his annual cycle of cantatas, in the same year as his Christmas Oratorio, one year after Kyrie and Gloria of his later Mass in B minor. He dated the manuscript himself, but the occasion is unspecified. (YouTube: Helmuth Rilling). Photo: Bach Cantata 97 (bach-cantatas.com) | ||||||||
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Joseph Haydn's
Symphony #97 in C Major (1795) isthe fifth of 12 London symphonies (#93-104) written by Haydn. It was completed in 1792 as part of the set of symphonies composed on his first trip to London. First performed at Hanover Square Rooms in London on 3 or 4 May 1792. First published in England, it made its way to the continent a few years later and was used by Friedrich Witt as a model for the Jena Symphony, long thought to be composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Photo: Haydn Symphony 97 (shclassical.com) | ||||||||
| 121) | Beethoven's Opus #97 is the Piano Trio in B-flat major (1811). | ||||||||
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Johannes Brahms's
Opus #97is Dort in den Weiden (1863) Lyrics: "There in the meadow stands a house, and there a maiden looks out of the window! She gazes upstream, she gazes downstream: is not my heart's beloved boy there yet? The handsomest lad on the entire Rhine I call mine, mine!" | ||||||||
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Rolling Stone Magazine's poll of the
500 Greatest Songs of All Timehas named Chuck Berry's Roll Over Beethoven (1956) as the 97th Greatest Song. (YouTube) (#1. Bob Dylan "Like a Rolling Stone", #2. Rolling Stones "Satisfaction", #3. John Lennon "Imagine") "Roll Over Beethoven" became the ultimate rock & roll call to arms, declaring a new era: "Roll over, Beethoven/ And tell Tchaikovsky the news." Berry announced this changing of the musical guard with a blazing guitar riff and pounding piano from sidekick Johnnie Johnson. Photo Source: (amazon.co.uk) | ||||||||
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The Old 97's is an American alternative country bandfrom Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1993, they have since released eleven studio albums, two full extended plays, shared split duty on another, and have one live album. Their most recent release is "Graveyard Whistling" (2017). Recognized as pioneers of the alt-country movement during the mid to late 1990s along with bands such as Uncle Tupelo, Drive-By Truckers, Whiskeytown, Jayhawks, and Bottle Rockets. Lead vocalist and primary songwriter Rhett Miller has described the band's style as "loud folk" Photo Source: (amazon.com) | ||||||||
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"Wreck of the Old 97" is a classic Country song based onthe 1903 wreck of #97 mail train outside Danville, Virginia. Written by guitarist Henry Whitter & fiddler G.B. Grayson in January 1924. First recorded by Vernon Dalhart in 1924, a record that sold a reported 7 million copies. Lyrics: They gave him his orders in Monroe Virginia Sayin' "Steve you're way behind time This is not 38, this is Old 97 You must put her in Spencer on time!" The song has been recorded by numerous artists including Statler Brothers, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, and Hank Snow. Photo Source: (musicstack.com) | ||||||||
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Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) was selected as the 97th best film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (2007). The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. Harrison Ford stars in the film to hunt the replicants down. | ||||||||
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Grease (1978)
was selected as the 97th best love stories film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions (2002). Directed by Randal Kleiser & based on the 1971 musical, the film starred John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John. | ||||||||
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Safety Last (1923)
was selected as the 97th best thriller film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills (2001). Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, this silent romantic comedy stars Harold Lloyd. It includes the most famous image with Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic. | ||||||||
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Bull Durham (1988)
was selected as the 97th funniest film in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs (2000). Directed by Ron Shelton, the film depicts the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor-league baseball team in Durham, NC. Starred Kevin Costner & Susan Sarandon. | ||||||||
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Harry Warren's song "42nd Street" from the film
42nd Street (1933) was selected as 97th best song in AFI 100 Years... 100 Songs (2004). Directed by Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley; Music: Harry Warren, Lyrics: Al Dubin; Starred Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell (YouTube). | ||||||||
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97th word of the King James Version of the Bible's Old Testament Genesis = firmament
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) | ||||||||
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The 97th Psalm is praise to God for his righteousness & holiness: The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof. His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Psalms 97.1, 4-6, 9, 11-12 (1023 BC), | ||||||||
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97th Book of Enoch: "Evils in Store for Sinners & Possessors of unrighteous Wealth":
And in those days the prayer of the righteous shall reach unto the Lord, And for you the days of your judgement shall come. Woe to you who acquire silver and gold in unrighteousness and say: "We have become rich with riches and have possessions; And have acquired everything we have desired. Yea and like water your lies shall flow away; For your riches shall not abide But speedily ascend from you; For ye have acquired it all in unrighteousness, And ye shall be given over to a great curse. — Book of Enoch XCVII.5, 8, 10 (circa 105 B.C.-64 B.C.) translated by R. H. Charles, S.P.C.K., London, 1917, pp. 138-139 | ||||||||
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97th Saying of
Gospel of Thomas: Jesus said, "The [Father's] kingdom is like a woman who was carrying a [jar] full of meal. While she was walking along [a] distant road, the handle of the jar broke and the meal spilled behind her [along] the road. She didn't know it; she hadn't noticed a problem. When she reached her house, she put the jar down and discovered that it was empty." Gospel of Thomas 97 (114 sayings of Jesus, circa 150 A.D.) (trans. Marvin Meyer, 1992; adapted by Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief, p. 239) | ||||||||
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In Chapter 97 of
The Aquarian Gospel, Sermon on the Mount, continued. Jesus unfolds to the 12 the spiritual aspects of the 5th and 6th Commandments. 1. God is not force alone; for wisdom is his counterpart. 2. When cherubim instructed man in wisdom's ways they said that wisdom is the Mother of the race, as force is Father of the race. 3. The man who honours the almighty and omniscient God is blessed... 4. Pay homage to your Father and Mother of the race, that your days may be prolonged upon the land that they have given you. 11. It is not well to let the sun go down upon your wrath. 20. Refuse not him who calls for help and give to him who asks to borrow aught. 25. Be merciful unto your foes; bless those who slander you; do good to those who do you harm and pray for those who trample on your rights. 26. Remember, you are children of the God who makes his sun to rise alike upon the evil and the good, who sends his rain upon the unjust and the just. 28. But you, as children of the light, must lead the way. 29. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. 32. Be perfect as your Father-God in heaven is. The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, Chapter 97 Transcribed from the Akashic Records by Levi H. Dowling DeVorss & Co., Santa Monica, CA, 1908, Reset 1964, pp. 142-143 | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of
Pistis Sophia (circa 150 A.D.): When then the Saviour had said this, Mary Magdalene started forward and said: "My Lord, bear with me and be not wroth with me, if I question on all things with precision and certainty. Now, therefore, my Lord, is then another the word of the mystery of the Ineffable and another the word of the whole gnosis?" The Saviour answered and said: "Yea, another is the mystery of the Ineffable and another the word of the whole gnosis. Surely; for every one who shall receive a mystery of the Light-kingdom, will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received mysteries. But he will not know the gnosis of the universe, wherefor all this hath arisen, unless he knoweth the one and only word of the Ineffable, which is the gnosis of the universe. And again in openness: I am the gnosis of the universe. And moreover it is impossible to know the one and only word of the gnosis, unless a man first receive the mystery of the Ineffable. But all the men who shall receive mysteries in the Light,— every one will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received mysteries." Pistis Sophia, Chapter 97 (Translated by Violet MacDermott, Edited by Carl Schmidt, Nag Hammadi Studies, IX: Pistis Sophia, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1978, pp. 233-236 | ||||||||
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Hymn 97 in Book 7 of the
Rig Veda is a song of praise to Brihaspati, a sage who counsels the gods: 1. Where Heaven and Earth combine in men's assembly, and those who love the Gods delight in worship, Where the libations are effused for Indra, may he come first to drink and make him stronger. 2. We crave the heavenly grace of Gods to guard us— so may Brihaspati, O friends, exalt us— That he, the Bounteous God, may find us sinless, who gives from a distance like a father. 3. That Brahmanaspati, most High and Gracious, I glorify with offerings and with homage. May the great song of praise divine, reach Indra who is King of prayer the Gods' creation. 7. For he is pure, with hundred wings, refulgent, with sword of gold, impetuous, winning sunlight. Sublime Brihaspati, easy of access grants his friends most bountiful refreshment. 8. Both Heaven and Earth, divine, the Deity's Parents, have made Brihaspati increase in grandeur. Glorify him, O friends, who merits glory: may he give prayer fair way and easy passage. Rig Veda, Book 7, 97.1-3, 7-8 (circa 1500 B.C.) | ||||||||
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Thetis answered Iris in Line 97 from
Book 24 of Homer's Iliad Iris, whose feet are like wind, stood near her: "Rise, Thetis. Zeus in his wisdom commands you." And the silver-footed goddess answered her: "Why would the great god want me? I am ashamed To mingle with the immortals, distraught as I am. But I will go, and he will not speak in vain." Homer, The Iliad, XXIV.95-100 (circa 800 BC) (translated by Stanley Lombardo) Hackett Publishing Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1997, p. 470 | ||||||||
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Nausicaa & friends dined on the river banks in Line 97 from Book 6 of Homer's Odyssey The ocean washed pebbles up along the shore. They bathed and anointed themselves richly with olive oil. Then they had their dinner along the banks of the river and waited for the clothes to dry in the gleam of the sun. Homer, The Odyssey, VI.95-98 (circa 800 BC) (translated by Albert Cook) Norton & Co., New York, 1967, p. 81 | ||||||||
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Section 97 of Plato's
Phaedo— Socrates on nature of mind Anaxagoras asserted that it is mind that produces order and is the cause of everything. This explanation pleased me. Plato (428-348 BC), Phaedo 97c (360 BC) (trans. Hugh Tredennick), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns, Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press, 1961, p. 79 | ||||||||
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Section 97 of Plato's
Meno— True opinion versus knowledge Socrates: Therefore true opinion is as good a guide as knowledge for the purpose of acting rightly. That is what we left ou just now in our discussion of the nature of virtue, when we said that knowledge is the only guide to right action. There was also, it seems, true opinion. Meno: Except thaat the man with knowledge will always be successful, and the man with right opinion only sometimes. Plato (428-348 BC), Meno 97bc (360 BC) (trans. W.K.C. Guthrie), Edited by Edith Hamilton & Huntington Cairns, Plato: The Collected Dialogues, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press, 1961, p. 381 | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Buddha's
Dhammapada: Canto VII— The Holy One He who is not credulous, who knows the nature of the Uncreated, who has severed all the bonds (of rebirth), who has destroyed all the influxes of evil and given up all cravings, he, indeed, is noblest among men. Buddha, Dhammapada Verse 97 (240 B.C.) (translated by Sangharakshita, Dhammapada: The Way of Truth, 2001, p. 40) | ||||||||
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97th Verse in Chapter 18 of
Ashtavakra Gita (Sage Ashtavakra's dialogue with King Janaka): The Blessed-one is not distracted even in distraction. He is not in meditation even in Samadhi. He is not dull even in a state of dullness. And he is not learned, even though possessed of learning. Ashtavakra Gita Chapter 18, Verse 97 (circa 400 B.C.) translated by Swami Chinmayanda, Ashtavakra Gita, Chinmaya Publications Trust, Madras, India, 1972, p. 379 (Chinmayanada's Commentary: All Masters have to employ "language of contradictions" when explaining the inexplicable! This can read as confusion, only to those who are trying to understand it with their intellect. All confusions will end when the seeker transcends his body-consciousness. Experience alone can reveal the Truth. the seeker must earn his own direct-experience.) | ||||||||
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Aphroism 97 of Patanjali's
Yoga Sutra: Posture is steadily easy. Vyasa Commentary: The restraints and observances have been described with attainments. Of these, posture (asana) is steadily easy. Steadiness means absence if motion. Easiness must not cause trouble. Posture is the way one sits. Patanjali (circa 200 B.C.), Yoga Sutra II.46: Aphroism 97 (circa 200 B.C.) translated by Rama Prasada, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, New Delhi, 1995, pp. 169-170. | ||||||||
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97th Trigraph of the Ling Ch'i Ching: Slight Loss The image of seeking security Two yang separated from each other Ch'ien (Heaven) * Northwest Oracle: Climbing a tree to pick mulberry leaves, he falls to the ground and lies prostrate. Among neighbors to the east there is an herbalist. He goes in that direction to ask about a prescription and thus encounters an excellent physician. He manages to avoid injury. Verse: Wanting to walk along a peaceful road, one yet encounters difficulty. Seeking fame and profit is not as good as idleness. Amid melancholy, you will fortunately benefit from the skills of an excellent physician, And remain in this world for your twilight years.
Tung-fang Shuo, | ||||||||
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In Chapter 2, Verse 97 of the
Lankavatara Sutra, Mahamati the Bodhisatva-Mahasattva praised Buddha & asked 108 questions: You ask me such and many other questions, which are in accordance with the marks [of Truth?] and free from erroneous views. The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD) (translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 31) | ||||||||
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In Chapter 3, Verse 97 of the
Lankavatara Sutra, Buddha tells Mahamati the Bodhisatva-Mahasattva about various forms of the will-body: The getting-rid of [the idea that] things are caused, the removal of [the dualism of] imagined and imagining, the being liberated from the alternatives of being and non-being— this I state to be no-birth. The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD) (translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 174) | ||||||||
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97th Verse of Sagathakam:
Lankavatara Sutra: As memory [or habit-energy, vasana] grows in various forms, the Mind is evolved like the waves; when memory is cut off, there is no evolving of Mind. The Lankavatara Sutra (before 443 AD) (translated from the Sanskrit by D. T. Suzuki, 1932, p. 234) | ||||||||
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In the 99 Names of Allah,
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Chapter 97 of Mohammed's
Holy Koran is titled "The Grandeur" In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. 1. Surely We revealed it on the grand night. 2. And what will make you comprehend what the grand night 3. The grand night is better than a thousand months. 4. The angels and Gibreal descend in it by the permission of their Lord for every affair, 5. Peace! it is till the break of the morning. — Mohammed, Holy Koran Chapter 97 (7th century AD) (translated by M. H. Shakir, Holy Koran, 1983) | ||||||||
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Text 97 of
On Prayer: 153 Texts of Evagrios the Solitary (345-399 AD) He who practices pure prayer will hear the demons crashing and banging, shouting and cursing; yet he will not be overwhelmed or go out of his mind. But he will say to God: 'I fear no evil, for Thou art with me' (Psalms 23.4), and other words of this kind. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 66) | ||||||||
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On Those who Think that They are Made Righteous by Works: 226 Texts of Saint Mark the Ascetic (early 5th century AD) Undistracted prayer is a sign of love for God; but careless or distracted prayer is a sign of love for pleasure. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 133) | ||||||||
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On Watchfulness and Holiness of Saint Hesychios the Priest (circa 7th century AD) A certain God-given equilibrium is produced in our intellect through the constant remembrance and invocation of our Lord Jesus Christ, provided that we do not neglect this constant spiritual entreaty or our close watchfulness and diligence. Indeed, our true task is always the same and is always accomplished in the same way: to call upon our Lord with a burning heart so that His holy name intercedes for us. In virtue as in vice, constancy is the mother of habit; once acquired, it rules us like nature. When the intellect is in such a state of equilibrium, it searches out its enemies like a hound searching for a hare in a thicket. But the hound searches in order to get food, the intellect in order to destroy. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 178) | ||||||||
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On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination: 100 Texts of Saint Diadochos of Photiki (400-486 AD) When the heart feels the arrows of the demons with such burning pain that the man under attack suffers as if they were real arrows, then the soul hates the passions violently, for it is just beginning to be purified. If it does not suffer greatly at the shamelessness of sin, it will not be able to rejoice fully in the blessings of righteousness. He who wishes to cleanse his heart should keep it continually aflame through practicing the remembrance of the Lord Jesus, making this his only study and his ceaseless task. Those who desire to free themselves from their corruption ought to pray not merely from time to time but at all times; they should give themselves always to prayer, keeping watch over their intellect even when outside places of prayer. When someone is trying to purify gold, and allows the fire of the furnace to die down even for a moment, the material which he is purifying will harden again. So, too, a man who merely practices the remembrance of God from time to time, loses through lack of continuity what he hopes to gain through his prayer. It is a mark of one who truly loves holiness that he continually burns up what is worldly in his heart through practicing the remembrance of God, so that little by little evil is consumed in the fire of this rembrance and his soul completely recovers its natural brilliance with still greater glory. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, pp. 293-294) Full Text; Google Text | ||||||||
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For the Encouragement of the Monks in India who had Written to Him: 100 Texts of Saint John of Karpathos (circa 680 AD) When recalling your sins, do not hestitate to beat your breast. With these blows you will dig into your hardened heart and discover within it the gold-mine of the publican (cf. Luke 18.13); and this hidden wealth will bring you great joy. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 321) | ||||||||
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On the Character of Men: 170 Texts of Saint Anthony of Egypt (251-356 AD) The greatest sickness of the soul, its ruin and perdition, is not to know God, who created all things for man and gave hime the gifts of intellect and intelligence. Winged through these gifts, man is linked to God, knowing Him and praising Him. The Philokalia (4th-15th century AD), translated by F.E.H. Palmer, Philip Sherrard, & Kallistos Ware, Faber & Faber, London, 1979, p. 344) | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Chapter 5 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: The rule of conduct taught by the Bodhisattvas is immeasurable; but one should always practice that conduct which leads to the purification of the mind. Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment V.97 (Guarding of Total Awareness: Samprajanyaraksana) (circa 700 AD) (translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 171) | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Chapter 6 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Pleasure arises within me because of the thought, "I am praised by him": because of that which is unrelated! Such is only the behavior of a child. Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment VIII.97 (Perfection of Patience: Ksanti-paramita) (circa 700 AD) (translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 181) | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Chapter 8 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Because I am not oppressed by reason of his sorrow, is he not to be protected? Am I not to protect myself from injury which will come from sorrow of future bodies? Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment VIII.97 (Perfection of Contemplation: Dhyana-paramita) (circa 700 AD) (translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 202) | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Chapter 9 in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Contact cannot be made without consciousness, which is formless, nor with an aggregate [of parts], because of its unreality, as previously demonstrated. Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara: Entering the Path of Enlightenment IX.97 (Perfection of Wisdom: Prajna-paramita) (circa 700 AD) (translated by Marion L. Matics, Macmillan, London, 1970, p. 220) | ||||||||
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Section 97 of Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu: Joshu preached to the people. He said: "It is said that 'When the mind is born, the various things are born; when the mind dies, the various things die.' How do you understand this?" A monk asked, "When not born and not dead— how about that?" Joshu said: "I let you go with this question." Note: Joshu's quote is taken from Daijokishinron, a Chinese scripture that tends to be idealistic. The monk presents the view of Mahayamika school, which that the substance of the world is "emptiness" or "void", not "mind". Joshu ironically suggests that as far as philosophy is concerned, the monk's statement may be perfect, yet there must be a limit to nonsense. — Joshu (aka Chao-Chou) (778-897) Radical Zen: The Sayings of Joshu, translated with commentary by Yoel Hoffman, Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1978, p. 47. | ||||||||
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Section 97 of Every End Exposed: 100 Koans of Master Kido is titled "Secret Language" Minister Seishosho brought his contribution to Master Ungo and asked, "Buddha has his secret language, while Kasho [Buddha's disciple] never hides anything. What does that mean?" Ungo then called Seishosho, who answered, "Yes". Ungo said, "Do you understand?" Seishosho said, "No, I do not." Ungo said, "If you do not understand, it shows that Buddha has his secret language. If you do understand, that means Kasho never hides anything." Master Kido: Where the minister does not understand, say “I understand all right. If I did not, I would not answer, 'Yes'” Master Hakuin: Very bright. Dazzling white. Plain Saying: If there were no believers, it would be too bad. Note: Buddha's language is "secret" only for those who do not understand that "nothing is hidden". By calling "Seishosho", Ungo tries to expose Seishosho to himself. Kido suggests that in answering "Yes", Seishosho does understand that "nothing is hidden". Hakuin's substitute phrase suggests that where Ungo calls "Seishosho", every end is exposed; whereas the plain saying seems to imply that each person has to answer the problem of the koan by and for himself. — Master Kido (1189-1269) Every End Exposed: 100 Koans of Master Kido, translated with commentary by Yoel Hoffman, Autumn Press, Brookline, MA, 1977, p. 122. | ||||||||
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Case 97 of
Hekiganroku: Diamond Sutra's "The Transgression is Wiped Out" Main Subject: The Diamond Sutra says, "If anyone is despised by others, even if he has committed some serious transgression in a former life and been doomed to fall into the evil world, the transgression in the former life, is wholly wiped out by virtue of the fact that he is despiesed in this life." Setcho's Verse: Holding the jewel, Merit is rewarded. Free from merit, The jewel reflects no more. Truly meritless, The heaven seek in vain. Gautama, Gautama, Do you know the secret? "Everything lies open," Says Setcho again. — Setcho (980-1052), Hekiganroku, 97 (Blue Cliff Records) (translated by Katsuki Sekida, Two Zen Classics, 1977, p. 394) | ||||||||
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Brother Gahmuret Agevin in the 97th Line of Eschenbach's
Parzival: 'You know how to ask in moderation! I shall grant you this and more besides. Why do you not call my brother Gahmuret Angevin? Anjou is my country. Let us both take our names from it.' — Wolfram von Eschenbach (1165-1217) Parzival (1195) Book VI "Parzival at King Arthur's Court" Lines 96-98 (translated by Cyril Edwards, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 5) (translated by Jessie Laidlay Weston, 1894, Reprint 1912) | ||||||||
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Section 97 in Chapter II:"The Essentials of Learning" of Chu Hsi's Chin-ssu lu (1175): We can understand the Way if we seek it with a mind that is open, free, in good spirits, and impartial. Furthermore, moral nature itself is extensive & great. The Book of Changes says, "Understand spirit to the highest degree and know the proceass of transformation. That is eminent virtue." Can one achieve the Way with a shallow mind? — Chu Hsi (1130-1200), Reflections on Things at Hand (Chin-ssu lu) translated by Wing-Tsit Chan, Columbia University Press, NY, 1967, p. 84 | ||||||||
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Angelus SilesiusThe Cherubinic Wanderer (1657):
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| 170) | Section 97 of Swedenborg's Worlds in Space (1758): On the World or Planet of Saturn, and its Spirits and Inhabitants— The spirits from that world are to be seen in front at a considerable distance, lower down on a level with the knees; and this is where that world too appears. When the gaze is turned in that direction, a great number of spirits, all from that world, comes into view. They are to be seen on this side of that world, and to the rigt of it. I was allowed to talk with them too, and so to discover what they are like as compared with others. They ar upright and restrained; and because they have a low opinion of themselves, they also appear small in the next life. — Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), The Worlds in Space, 97 (translated from Latin by John Chadwick, Swedenborg Society, London, 1997, p. 73) | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of Wei Wu Wei's The Tenth Man (1966) is titled "The Bubble of Bondage": Observe each of your performances from waking to sleeping, and from sleeping to waking: is not your every action a reaction? Are you ever not-conforming to conditioning, to precedent causes, called 'habits', fashion, or anything else? Have you ever been free? So how could you be bound? Examine what you regard as your self; can you locate any entity anywhere that could be subject to bondage? Have you ever been bound? So how could you be free? Does this way of seeing liberate from bondage to the notion of being bound? Note: There cannot be any such condition as 'bondage' without a corresponding condition of 'freedom', nor one of 'freedom' without 'bondage'. Isness Freedom is not freedom from any thing. Bondage is not bondage to any thing. It is not even a question as to whether there is or is not any thing to be bound or to be free. The truth about problems is not whether some thing is or is not so. The truth about questions is not whether this or that is right or wrong. There are no questions. There are no problems. There is no freedom or bondage. Such is noumenal understanding— for there is no Time. — Wei Wu Wei (1895-1986), The Tenth Man (1966), p. 211 (Archives) | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of Wei Wu Wei's Ask the Awakened (1963)is titled "The Way of the Water": Of all that has to be 'laid down'— conditioning, knowledge, religion, science, 'self', perhaps the most important is the idea that one lives his own life. To lay down the rest and go on thinking that one lives instead of being lived, would be an idle gesture. We do not 'choose' to be born, to grow old, to be well or ill, or to die: why on Earth should we imagine that we can choose anything in between, i.e. how we live, let alone everything? We are free to understand, which means free to know ourselves as 'vertical' mind— that is our one and only freedom, as I have often pointed out. If 'we' can 'lay down' our fatuous and arrogant notion that we 'live our own lives' instead of being lived integrally from birth to death, then 'we' shall have laid down everything, not in detail but en bloc. Freewill 'Horizontally' we have no freedom whatsoever— 'vertically' there is neither freedom nor non-freedom. That is the answer. — Wei Wu Wei (1895-1986), Ask the Awakened (1963), p. 229 (Archives, "How Open Secret led me to Wei Wu Wei") | ||||||||
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"Awakening Willpower" is Lesson 97of Subramuniyaswami's Merging with Siva (1999): Chapter 14: Life, the Great Experience— • To know yourself is why you are on Earth. You were born to realize the Self. You are not here to make money, to clothe yourself or to entertain yourself. These are incidentals. You are here on this planet to realize the Self God, and the only way to experience Self Realization is to awaken within you a dynamic, indomitable, actinic will. To do this, the steps are: first, find out what and where the willpower is. Everyone has it. Willpower is that quietness within, that serenity that is likened to a light so bright that you cannot see it with the physical eyes. Second, learn to use this actinic will. Begin with little things that you do. Become satisfied with everything that you do. To you, it must be a work of art, even if it is just drying a dish, cleaning a floor or painting a picture. Your work must satisfy you, and if it does not satisfy the inner you one hundred percent, you must use your indomitable willpower and keep striving until it does. • You must become a perfectionist unto yourself, but first decide what your standard for perfection is. You must control the quality of your work. Take on no responsibility that you cannot handle. By doing this, you will find that you have much more control over the physical body and emotions than you ever thought possible. You will begin to demonstrate to yourself your powers of control over material creations, the physical body and the emotions of the instinctive area of the mind. Demonstration comes as you use your indomitable willpower. — Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001) Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics Himalayan Academy, Kapaa, Hawaii, 1999, pp. 200-202 | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of Zen Master Seung Sahn'sDropping Ashes on the Buddha is titled "Un-Mun's Short-Answer Zen": One day a student asked Zen Master Un-Mun, "What is it that passes over Buddha and all the eminent teachers?" Un-mun answered, "Cake". Another asked, "If you are not thinking, are there any mistakes?" Un-mun answered, "Sumi Mountain". Someone asked him, "What is my original face?" Un-mun answered, "Sightseeing among mountains and rivers.". This was the way Un-mun taught Zen, always giving short answers to his students' questions. Often he would use only one word to point to the studen't mind. Another student asked, "Of the three bodies— form body, consciousness body, and Dharma body— which one speaks the truth?" Un-mun said, "Primary". Thus Un-Mun, with his short answers, opened many minds. — Seung Sahn (1927-2004), Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn, Edited by Stephen Mitchell, Grove Press, New York, 1976, pp. 222-223 | ||||||||
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Koan 97 of Zen Master Seung Sahn—"Tea Cup" One day Man Gong Sunim was drinking tea with Zen Master Su Wol. In the middle of their conversation, Sul Wol picked up a tea cup and said, "Don't say this is a tea cup. Don't say this is not a tea cup. What can you say?" Man Gong answered correctly, so Su Wol was very happy. 1. If you were there, what could you answer? Commentary: A monk likes noodles and cake. Laypeople likes beautiful clothes and shoes. — Seung Sahn (1927-2004), The Whole World Is A Single Flower 365 Kong-ans for Everyday Life, Tuttle, Boston, 1992, p. 66 | ||||||||
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Page 97 of Swami Chinmayanananda's"Say Cheese!" is titled "Lateral Inversion": The reflection of a realized master is no bondage to him. On the other hand, an ignorant man, like a bird, gets identified to its own reflection and remains glued to it, and is caught by the bird catcher. The world is only a reflection of Brahmin having no reality apart from it. The reflection in the mirror looks exactly like the object reflected but there is a lateral inversion of the object i.e., the right side looks like the left side. Consciousness is all bliss, the world is all pain. Brahmin is perfect, the world is extremely imperfect. — Swami Chinmayanananda (1916-1993), "Say Cheese!", Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, Mumbai, 2004, p. 97 | ||||||||
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Han-shan's Poem 97 of
Collected Songs of Cold Mountain: Steam some sand for your dinner when you're thirsty dig a well polish a brick with all your might you still won't make a mirror the Buddha said we're basically equal we share the same true nature figure it out for yourself give up this useless struggle — Han-shan (fl. 627-649), Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, Poem 97 (translated by Red Pine, 1990) ( Robert G. Henricks translation, 1990; Burton Watson translation, 1962) | ||||||||
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Poem 97 of
Su Tung-p'o (1036-1101) is titled "Drinking Wine" (1092):
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Verse 97 of Rubáiyát, of
Omar Khayyam (1048-1122): Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse— if dimly, yet indeed, reveal'd, To which the fainting Traveller might spring, As springs the trampled herbage of the field! (translated by Edward Fitzgerald, London, 1st Ed. 1859, 2nd Ed. 1868) | ||||||||
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Verse 97 of Rumi Daylight:
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Dante in great wonder as he defies gravity ascending upward in space in the 97th line of Paradiso:
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Verse 97 of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz: This Talking Rag It was all so clear this morning. My mind and heart had never felt more convinced: There is only God, A Great Wild God. But somehow I got yanked from that annihilating Realization And can now appear again as this wine-stained Talking Rag. Hafiz (1320-1389), The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, Verse 97 translated from the Persian by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, Middlesex, UK. 1999, p. 144 | ||||||||
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Line 97 from the Pearl Poet's Pearl:
"The wood where fortune smiled on me"
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Ways of love in Verse 97 of Songs of Kabir: THE Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed. O servant! put false pride away, and seek for Him within you. A million suns are ablaze with light, The sea of blue spreads in the sky, The fever of life is stilled, and all stains are washed away; when I sit in the midst of that world. Hark to the unstruck bells and drums! Take your delight in love! Rains pour down without water, and the rivers are streams of light. One Love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation— The House of Reason is very far away! How blessed is Kabîr, that amidst this great joy he sings within his own vessel. It is the music of the meeting of soul with soul; It is the music of the forgetting of sorrows; It is the music that transcends all coming in and all going forth. Kabir (1398-1448), Songs of Kabir, Verse XCVII (Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan, NY, 1916, p. 141) | ||||||||
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Nature of the mind in Kabir's Sakhi: Verse 97: When the snake of separation bites the body, mantras. don't work. Without Ram you can't live. If you live, you go mad. Kabir (1398-1448), The Bijak of Kabir, Sabda: Verse 97 (p. 100) (Translated by Linda Hess & Shukdev Singh, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1983) | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of Wu Ch'eng-en
The Journey to the West: Gold-dispensing external aid meets demonic harm; The sage reveals his soul to bring restoration.
Wu Ch'eng-en (1500-1582), The Journey to the West or Hsi-yu chi (1518), Volume 4, Chapter 97 (translated by Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 323, 338) | ||||||||
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| 193) | "Nor dim nor red, like God's own head" in Line 97 of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner": Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist: Then all averred, I had killed the bird That brought the fog and mist. 'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, That bring the fog and mist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798), Lines 97-102 The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Penguin Books, London, 1997, p. 150 | ||||||||
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Poem 97 of Goethe, the Lyrist: 100 Poems:
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Line 97 of Byron's
"The Prisoner of Chillon": "With joy:— but not in chains to pine:"
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| 197) | "And grasp'd his fingers in her palsied hand" in Line 97 of John Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes": He startled her; but soon she knew his face, And grasp'd his fingers in her palsied hand, Saying, "Mercy, Porphyro! hie thee from this place; They are all here to-night, the whole blood-thirsty race!" — John Keats (1795-1821), "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1820), Lines 96-99 The Complete Poems of John Keats, Modern Library, NY, 1994, p. 174 | ||||||||
| 198) | "Her bow and winged reeds, as if to stem" in Line 97 of Shelley's "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats": Another in her wilful grief would break Her bow and winged reeds, as if to stem A greater loss with one which was more weak; And dull the barbed fire against his frozen cheek. — Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" (1821), Lines 96-99 | ||||||||
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Chapter 97 of Melville's
Moby-Dick (1851): Had you descended from the Pequod's try-works to the Pequod's forecastle, where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost thought you were standing in some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counsellors. There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes. In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of queens. To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot. But the whaleman, as he seeks the food of light, so he lives in light. He makes his berth an Aladdin's lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination. See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps- often but old bottles and vials, though— to the copper cooler at the tryworks, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ale at a vat. He burns, too, the purest of oil, in its unmanufactured, and, therefore, unvitiated state; a fluid unknown to solar, lunar, or astral contrivances ashore. It is sweet as early grass butter in April. He goes and hunts for his oil, so as to be sure of its freshness and genuineness, even as the traveller on the prairie hunts up his own supper of game. — Herman Melville (1819-1891), Moby-Dick, Chapter 97: The Lamp | ||||||||
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97th New Poem of Emily Dickinson: Death is perhaps an intimate friend, not an enemy. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (Letter 478 to Mrs. Joseph A. Sweetser, late October 1876) New Poems of Emily Dickinson (edited by William H. Shurr, University of North Carolin Press, 1993, p. 27) | ||||||||
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"And brown ants" in Line 97 of Walt Whitman's
Song of Myself (1855): And that a kelson of the creation is love, And limitless are leaves, stiff or drooping in the fields, And brown ants in the little wells beneath them, And mossy scabs of the worm fence, and heap'd stones, elder, mullen and poke-weed. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Song of Myself, Lines 95-98 A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, Vol. I, Poems, 1855-1856 (Edited by Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett, Arthur Golden, William White New York University Press, 1980, p. 6) | ||||||||
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"What is this earth to our affections?" in Line 97 of Walt Whitman's Passage to India (1871): What is this earth to our affections? (unloving earth, without a throb to answer ours, Cold earth, the place of graves.) Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out, Perhaps even now the time has arrived. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Passage to India Section 5, Lines 97-100 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) | ||||||||
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Poem 97 of The Poetry of Rilke [1908] is titled "Corpse-Washing" ("Leichen-Wäsche"):
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Line 97 of Rilke's
Duino Elegies V [1923] "never could bring to mastery here":
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97th Page lines in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, (14 samples): bic bugles, hot to run him, given law, on a scent breasthigh, (97.1) keen for the worry. View! From his holt outratted across the (97.2) louping the loup, to Tankardstown again. Ear canny hare for (97.8) from the good turn when he last was lost, check, upon Ye Hill (97.11) of Rut in full winter coat with ticker pads, pointing for his room- (97.12) ing house his old nordest in his rolltoproyal hessians a deaf fuch- (97.13) hied home. Preservative perseverance in the reeducation of his (97.18) Assembly men murmured. Reynard is slow! (97.28) One feared for his days. Did there yawn? 'Twas his stom- (97.29) mick. Eruct? The libber. A gush? From his visuals. Pung? De- (97.30) livver him, orelode! He had laid violent hands on himself, it was (97.31) brought in Fugger's Newsletter, lain down, all in, fagged out, (97.32) with equally melancholy death. For the triduum of Saturnalia (97.33) his goatservant had paraded hiz willingsons in the Forum while (97.34) James Joyce (1882-1941), Finnegans Wake, (1939), p. 97 | ||||||||
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"Above the arrowy, still strings," in Line 97 of
Wallace Stevens's, The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937): And the color, the overcast blue Of the air, in which the blue guitar Is a form, described but difficult, And I am merely a shadow hunched Above the arrowy, still strings, The maker of a thing yet to be made; The color like a thought that grows Out of a mood, the tragic robe Of the actor, half his gesture, half His speech, the dress of his meaning, silk Sodden with his melancholy words, The weather of his stage, himself. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), The Man with the Blue Guitar, Lines 94-104 (Section IX) Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America, NY, 1997, p. 138 | ||||||||
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Page 97 in William Carlos Williams' Paterson (1958) is from a 50-page poem titled "The Library": to find— a child burned in a field, no language. Tried, aflame, to crawl under a fence to go home. So be it. Two others, boy and girl, clasped in each others' arms (clasped also by the water) So be it. Drowned wordless in the canal. So be it. The Paterson Cricket Club, 1896. A woman lobbyist. So be it. Two local millionaires— moved away. So be it. Another Indian rock shelter found— a bone awl. So be it. The old Rogers Locomotive Works. So be it. Shield us from loneliness. So be it. The mind reels, starts back amazed from the reading So be it. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), Paterson (1958) Edited by Christopher MacGowan New Directions, NY, 1992, p. 97 (Published in Book III, Section 1, 1949) | ||||||||
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Sonnet 97 in Pablo Neruda's 100 Love Sonnets (1960)
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Poem 97 of Talking to the Sun
is "Grasshoppers" Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring And now to stalks of tasselled sour-grass cling, That shakes and sways awhile, but still keeps straight, While arching oxeye doubles with his weight. Next on the cat-tail grass with farther bound He springs, that bends until they touch the ground. — John Claire (1793-1864), cited in Kenneth Koch & Kate Farrell (Eds), Talking to the Sun (An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People) Metropolitan Museum of Art & Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1985, p. 66 | ||||||||
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Poem 97 in Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems 1954-1986 (1987) (There are 118 poems in this edition; Poem 97 is "At Funchal")
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"first abalone" in Line 97 of
Mary Oliver's poem "Evening Star":
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There are 284 poems in Robert Bly's Stealing Sugar from the Castle (2013) Poem #97 is "My Father at Eighty-six" (1990)—
Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected & New Poems 1950-2013 W.W. Norton & Co., New York, pp. 152-153 (Google Books; Reading poem on PBS) (2008 Stanford Workshops, Reading) | ||||||||
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There are 229 poems in Kay Ryan's The Best of It (2010), 97th poem— LEARNING
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Numerology: words whose letters add up to 97
Evergreen Wanderer = (545979555) + (51545959) = 54 + 43 = 97 Partridge a Pear Tree = (719299475) + (1) + (7519) + (2955) = 53 + 1 + 22 + 21 = 97 Round Table Nourishment = (96354) + (21235) + (56399184552) = 27 + 13 + 57 = 97 Sunflower Burning Bush = (135636559) + (2395957) + (2318) = 43 + 40 + 14 = 97 Unity and Multiplicity = (35927) + (154) + (433297393927) = 26 + 10 + 61 = 97 Weeping Crescent Moon = (5557957) + (39513552) + (4665) = 43 + 33 + 21 = 97 February Twenty Three (February 23) = 65293197 + 255527 + 28955 = 42 + 26 + 29 = 97 Fourteen Sixty Eight (1468) = 66392555 + 19627 + 59782 = 41 + 25 + 31 = 97 Eighteen Eighty Two (1882) = 5978255 + 597827 + 256 = 46 + 38 + 13 = 97 Nineteen Forty Eight (1948) = 5952555 + 66927 + 59782 = 36 + 30 + 31 = 97 Nineteen Fifty Eight (1958) = 5952555 + 69627 + 59782 = 36 + 30 + 31 = 97
for my Cornell Professor Harold A. Scheraga's 97th birthday on October 18, 2018 | ||||||||
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