100

10 05 2008

I must admit that I am rather proud of myself, yesterday was my 100th entry!  I’ve managed to find so many thing to tell you all about handbags, who would have thought! I hope you are enjoying my work and my pictures.  Hope you’ll continue to read my Blog and appreciate my bags.

100: is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. (No really!!!! ;-) )
Description and facts below taken from Wikipedia.

One hundred is also:

  • The number of years in a century
  • A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian.
  • The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight
  • The United States Senate has 100 Senators
  • The number of subunits into which many of the world’s currencies are divided; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and one Pound Sterling is one hundred pence
  • The number of tiles in a standard Scrabble set
  • The denomination of the U.S. hundred-dollar bill with Benjamin Franklin’s portrait; the “Benjamin” is the largest U.S. bill in print
  • The denomination of American savings bonds with Thomas Jefferson’s portrait
  • The denomination of American treasury bonds with Andrew Jackson’s portrait
  • In Greece, India and Israel, 100 is the police telephone number.
  • In Belgium, 100 is the ambulance and firefighter telephone number.
  • In United Kingdom, 100 is the operator telephone number
  • Hundred Days, aka the Waterloo Campaign
  • “The First Hundred Days” is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States’ performance at the beginning of his term
  • 100 is the HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request
  • STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched April 19, 2001
  • The 100-Series Highways are a series of arterial highways in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
  • SEPTA Route 100, also known as the Norristown High-Speed Line, is an interurban line system operating between Upper Darby and Norristown, Pennsylvania
  • NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange
  • The American Film Institute series
  • In English slang, adding the number 100 to a particular skill or subject denotes introductory knowledge (”Physics 100″, “Soccer 100″), akin to the name of a first year university subject.
  • Games 100 is an annual listing of the year’s top games
  • The Time 100 is a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. The list has developed into an annual event.
  • The One Hundred Years War
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film starring Deanna Durbin
  • 100 Grand Bar (formerly known as $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by Nestlé
  • Monterrey, Mexico is located at 25 degrees 40′ N latitude and 100 degrees 18′ W longitude
  • Pope Valentine succeeded Pope Eugene II to become the 100th Pope in August 827

Well I didn’t know there were so many interesting facts about the numer 100! Did you? ;-)

 


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