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Post by HAL on Jul 10, 2018 18:34:49 GMT
It would have been more interesting had it hit the stadium.
But it does indeed look like a tank, as the narrator said.
And another one bites the dust.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 11, 2018 12:28:41 GMT
Good morning lovely pie throwers,
Atlas Obscura
How Pie-Throwing Became a Comedy Standard
One film studio in Los Angeles pioneered the trope of flying pies.
by Anne Ewbank
July 10, 2018
One of the last places you might expect to find a commemorative plaque is on a concrete self-storage building in Los Angeles. But there, on 1712 Glendale Blvd., a plaque memorializes what was once a sprawling film lot known as Keystone Studios. The film company, now located in present-day Echo Park, was famed for its uproarious slapstick comedies—particularly those involving tossed pies.
For over a century, flinging a pie into someone’s face has been a comedy trope, thanks in part to Keystone. Established in 1912 by director Mack Sennett, the studio was once touted as a comedy pioneer, and had a hand in making pie-throwing ubiquitous. Yet pie-tossing is a more common stunt in the popular imagination than it is in reality.
This phenomenon can be traced back before the earliest days of pre-1920’s silent film. Tossing a pie into someone’s face for comedic effect first existed on the vaudeville circuit. The hilarity of seeing an elegant dessert hit an an actor, and watching them react with either anger or bewilderment, soon made its way to the screen. In 1913, Sennett’s muse Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle “launched the first such missile in a Keystone film,” notes The Oxford Companion to Food. Soon, the studio became known for pie-tossing shenanigans, and the high-flying desserts flew so freely that the studio needed its own bakery to make them.
The answer turned out to be right across the street. One Sarah Brener owned a variety store there, but she also supplied the studio with its pies. Sometimes, they were delicious. Charlie Chaplin said that Brener’s pies were the best in town (he once gave her one of his trademark canes as a memento, too.) But often, they had to be specially formulated for films. The ones Keystone used were “a special ballistic version of the pie, with heavy-duty pastry and especially slurpy ‘custard.’” As pie fights in film grew more elaborate, Brener’s bakery was soon making nothing else.
Filmmakers preferred custard pies for flinging. They were appropriately messy and, without a top crust, likely less painful than a lattice-edged cherry pie would be to the face. In one biography of the silent film comedy star Buster Keaton, author Marion Mead recorded his pratfall-ready custard pie recipe. In it, two baked pie crusts were welded together with a solid foundation of flour and water. Then, they were filled with an inch of thick flour-and-water paste. If the pie was to be thrown at a blonde or a man in a light suit, a chocolate or strawberry garnish was added. For a man in a dark suit, the pie would be garnished with lots of whipped cream for the wreckage to show up well on camera. He also gave advice on how to throw it: like a Roman discus, for instance.
For a time, Keystone Studios was a powerful studio, launching stars like Charlie Chaplin to prominence. But by the time the 1920’s rolled around, people had grown tired of the custard-pie shtick. It wasn’t long before comedies were being advertised on their pie-less merits: one ad trumpeted that “a custard pie and a pretty girl or two in a bathing suit do not make a comedy.” Pieing was so commonplace that Sennett had even developed rules for what characters could be taken down a notch with an ignominious pie to the face: mothers-in law, yes, mothers, no. (The humbling effect of a pie to the face has also made them a tool of political commentary.)
Widespread pie-throwing faded, but it didn’t die completely: Comedic films and animation alike have been peppered with pieing ever since, from Bugs Bunny to the Three Stooges. In 2015, The New York Times even reported that a “holy grail” of film history had been re-discovered: the second reel of the Laurel and Hardy 1927 short “The Battle of the Century”, where 3,000 pies sail through the air. It was supposed to be the pie fight to end all others, but in 1965 the film “The Great Race” promised viewers “the greatest pie fight in history.” Thousands of real pies were used, and after filming, the entire set stank of the rotting dessert.
Now, the Keystone building is a storage facility, and Brener’s bakery is long gone. But the studio’s influence lives on in film, in the occasional tossing of a pie, and on a plaque on the corner of the sole remaining building that reads: “This was the birthplace of the motion picture comedy.”
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-people-throw-pies
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 11, 2018 16:16:56 GMT
Travel Pulse
The World's Top Destinations for UFO Sightings
Patrick Clarke
11 July 2018
Extraterrestrial Tourism
There have been countless UFO sightings reported all over the world for thousands of years and while many have been deemed hoaxes or discredited some have managed to become the stuff of legend. Travelers to these 15 destinations might just be able to find out for themselves whether we're really alone in the universe.
slideshow after the jump:
www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/the-worlds-top-destinations-for-ufo-sightings/ss-AAzVij1
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 11, 2018 20:32:27 GMT
The Hidden Underbelly 2.0
Published on Jul 11, 2018
While out with his wife Sebastien Monnet saw these objects and joked to his wife saying '' oh look there are some UFOs '' but soon after the comment he realises that this is an ufo sighting so he began to filmed the event.
Many thanks to Sebastien Monnet & wife for allowing me the use of his footage and to view the original www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR1R...
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 12, 2018 12:10:44 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Urbo
The Things They Stole: Exploring 7 Of The Strangest, Most Exotic Thefts Ever Reported
Whether for money, thrills, or some kind of deeper emotional compulsion, people sure do find ways to steal a bunch of weird things.
July 9, 2018
by David Morrison
Christopher Marinello has made a career out of tracking down priceless stolen art and artifacts.
As the CEO of Art Recovery International, if it’s famous and it’s missing, Marinello is probably on the case. His track record of helping items find their way back to their rightful owners sounds like something out of a “Most Interesting Man in the World” pageant.
An Henri Matisse painting, one of the many pieces of Nazi-looted artwork he has helped recover. An English ceremonial sword. An astrolabe from the 16th century. A bunch of old guns.
Currently on the docket: the 1964 Aston Martin that was used in the James Bond film Goldfinger, complete with Q’s suite of gadgets. It disappeared from an airport hangar in Boca Raton, Florida, in 1997. (Last month, Marinello received a tip saying the stolen car was being held at a specific location in the Middle East—no word on if it’s the one just yet.)
Thieves take on an extreme amount of risk to pilfer these sorts of pieces, with no guarantee that they’ll be able to unload them easily. You can’t really drive that Aston Martin to the local swap meet and slap a “For Sale” sign on it now, can you?
“They’ve got to have rocks in their heads to call this some sort of a profession,” Marinello says.
The money is the main enticement, sure, but people steal all sorts of strange things for all sorts of reasons. Here are some of the strangest, most exotic thefts ever reported, along with the motivations of the culprits and the fates of the objects.
A Feather Touch
It wasn’t enough for Edwin Rist to be an orchestral flute prodigy. No, in 2009, the 20-year-old American also set about making himself a world-renowned feather thief.
Rist broke into the Museum of Natural History in Tring, England, and stole nearly 300 preserved skins from tropical birds. His plan was to sell the birds’ exotic plumage to fellow aficionados, especially among his fellow fly-tiers who were always on the lookout for fancy feathers to use on the lures they dangle in front of fish. Yes, Rist was an avid fly fisherman as well.
It didn’t work out so well for Rist. A little more than a year after the heist, investigators pinned him down as a suspect and found plastic bags containing thousands of feathers and cardboard boxes with what remained of the skins in his apartment.
He was ordered to pay about $160,000 in restitution. Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of the 2018 book The Feather Thief about Rist and his scheme, estimates there still could be more than 100 skins unaccounted for.
Marinello says that if you’re a museum curator or private collector of rare, exotic items—say, tropical bird skins—it’s a good idea to keep a detailed list of your inventory handy.
“Keeping your documentation, keeping your receipts, having digital images of the object, have your items insured, keep your insurance records, make sure you update your insurance from time to time,” Marinello says. “I recommend that people who have collections get security checks of their premises. Museums know how to do this fairly regularly, but collectors don’t.”
Hole in None
Thieves scouring for scrap metal sources seem to keep a special eye out for manhole covers.
More than a ton’s worth of sewer covers and grates were stolen in the Los Angeles area in 1990, with the aim of selling off the material for scrap metal. Police ended up nabbing the culprits during a stakeout when they followed a lead to a junkyard and found the missing metal in the flatbed of a Toyota pickup truck. Followers of the case had theorized that the thieves were looking for unique decorations for their backyards or that they were obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Nope. They were just planning to sell it all for about $75 total.
Manhole cover thefts seem to pop up quite frequently in the world of “ain’t it weird” news, from a spate of 1,500 going missing in India in 2008—with hopes of selling the iron ore to China for use in building its venues for the Beijing Summer Olympics—to one particularly pesky missing cover in the English village of Broadbridge Heath in 2011. Pesky for at least one woman, that is, who fell 20 feet into the sewers by stepping into the uncovered abyss.
There’s got to be an easier way to procure scrap metal, right?
more after the jump:
www.urbo.com/content/exploring-the-outcomes-and-motivations-behind-some-of-the-strangest-most-exotic-thefts/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 12, 2018 12:15:17 GMT
LeeroyJenkins94
Published on Jul 11, 2018
I saw an object in the distance during a thunderstorm. At first i thought it was a paraglider, but then which paraglider has a shiny/metalic parachute?
Also the object seemed to be tumbling through the air at first, but then it again went higher and moved in the distance, the camera couldn't pickup the object anymore.
Also i cant tell if the obejct was shiny because of reflecting light, or itself was "light"
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 12, 2018 13:36:28 GMT
Purr has been having fun again!
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Post by HAL on Jul 12, 2018 19:22:47 GMT
Scene in a courthouse.
'Mi'lud, I really must protest about the way my client has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death for what was obviously an accident'
Judge,
'Perhaps you can tell us how decapitating a comedian by firing a custard pie at him from an air cannon can possibly be called an accident'
'Well, mi'lud, my client simply forgot to defrost it first'.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 12, 2018 23:02:34 GMT
Scene in a courthouse. 'Mi'lud, I really must protest about the way my client has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death for what was obviously an accident' Judge, 'Perhaps you can tell us how decapitating a comedian by firing a custard pie at him from an air cannon can possibly be called an accident' 'Well, mi'lud, my client simply forgot to defrost it first'. HAL.  |
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 12, 2018 23:07:25 GMT
National Post (via Fortean Times)
'Witnesses were very frightened:' Survey of 2017 Canadian UFO sightings released
A survey released by Manitoba-based Ufology Research on Tuesday says there were 1,101 UFO sightings -- an average of three a day -- reported in Canada in 2017
Sylvia Strojek
July 10, 2018
Hovering lights in the sky. Pulsing lights. A humming noise.
Objects shaped like spheres, discs, triangles and boomerangs.
The witnesses include ordinary folk, airline crews, a particle physicist and an airport’s weather observer.
A survey released by Manitoba-based Ufology Research on Tuesday says there were 1,101 UFO sightings — an average of three a day — reported in Canada in 2017.
About eight per cent of those were deemed unexplainable.
“Many people continue to report unusual objects in the sky, and some of these objects do not have obvious explanations,” says the survey.
“Many witnesses are pilots, police and other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgment.”
Quebec had the most sightings at 518. Nunavut had the fewest at two.
Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton topped the cities with the most UFO reports.
more after the jump:
nationalpost.com/news/canada/witnesses-were-very-frightened-survey-of-2017-canadian-ufo-sightings-released
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 13, 2018 11:45:29 GMT
Good Friday the 13th everyone!
Mysterious Universe
Strange Things Below London?
Nick Redfern
July 13, 2018
The U.K.’s famous London Underground serves commuters traveling throughout Greater London, as well as select parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, and Essex. It can also claim the title of the world’s oldest underground system of its type, given that it opened up for business on January 10, 1863. It’s the longest – as well as certainly the oldest – sub-surface railway system on the planet. Moreover, in 2007, one-billion passengers were recorded as having used the Underground since 1863.
According to a number of select souls, however, the London Underground has played host to far more than mere tracks, trains and a near-endless number of travelers. Deep within the winding tunnels of this sub-surface labyrinth, bizarre and terrible things – many of a “wild man” variety – are rumored to seethe and fester, and possibly even feed too. And British authorities are doing all they can to keep the lid on the chaos and carnage that threatens to spread deep below the streets of the nation’s historic capital city. We’re talking about conspiracies of the underground type.
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/07/strange-things-below-london/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 13, 2018 11:50:29 GMT
Science Alert
A French Farmer Found an Incredibly Rare Fossil And Kept It Secret For Years
He didn't want to be bothered.
MIKE MCRAE
13 JUL 2018
Quick question – if you found a strange-looking fossil on your property, would you a) call the press, b) call the experts, or c) do neither because, well, who needs that kind of attention?
For those who went with c, you have a kindred spirit in a farmer who stumbled on a giant four-tusked skull near the French town of Toulouse back in 2014, and decided he didn't want his land overrun by amateur fossil hunters. Fair enough, too.
Either curiosity or civic duty got the better of him in the end. After keeping quiet for a couple of years he finally got in touch with the Toulouse Natural History Museum, who were amazed at the finding.
"It was only when we went there, in 2017, that we realised the significance of the discovery," the museum's management reported.
The bones belonged to a long-extinct relative of the elephant – Gomphotherium pyrenaicum – which roamed the area roughly 11 to 13 million years ago.
These odd-looking creatures had two tusks coming out of their lower jaw in addition to the more typical upper pair we seen in elephants today; these lower tusks were relatively flat and possibly used to dig for roots.
This particular species of Gomphotherium isn't well-represented in the fossil record, with only a few teeth uncovered around 150 years ago in the same area.
This is the first complete skull, making it an absolute gem find.
"We're putting a face on a species which had become almost mythical," says museum curator Pierre Dalous.
The next step for museum palaeontologists is to carefully extract the fossil from its casing of hardened sediment, which means they have months of careful scraping and chipping ahead of them.
So far a search of the immediate vicinity has failed to reveal the rest of its body.
There's no word on whether there are currently hordes of amateur fossil scavengers packing for the Pyrenees, or whether the farmer is now thinking of cashing in on his fame to turn the farm into Mastodon Park.
In some ways, his hesitation is to be lauded.
It's hard to even get an estimate on the number of privately owned fossils out there around the globe. Nearly every aspiring young palaeontologist has a few shark's teeth or a trilobite or two on their shelf.
Not all finds are so mundane, though. The fossil of a unique four-legged snake drew attention for all the wrong reasons a few years ago when it was uncovered in a private collection in Germany back in 2012.
Its origins were traced to Brazil, where the sale or distribution of fossils has been illegal since 1942.
China is another country with laws that attempt to wipe out trade in its rich diversity of fossils, which isn't always effective.
More than just a legal matter, however, the question of 'open fossils' is as pertinent today as 'open science'. Rare fossils behind glass might be a great conversation point for dinner parties, but away from expert eyes they do little to contribute to our knowledge of the past.
Having amateurs picking through the unnamed farmer's soil isn't just bad for his peace and quiet, but risks being bad for science.
Still, we're thankful that he stepped forward in the end to give this odd-ball elephant cousin a good home.
www.sciencealert.com/complete-gomphotherium-pyrenaicum-skull-found-toulouse-farm
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jul 13, 2018 12:02:31 GMT
Telegraph
Let there be light: 'ghost' particle found a mile beneath Antarctica holds key to breakthrough in physics
Henry Bodkin
12 July 2018 • 6:43pm
The secrets of the origins of light are set to be unlocked by the discovery of an elusive “ghost” particle a mile beneath Antarctica, scientists have announced.
Astronomers have for the first time identified the source of a high-energy neutrino which shot through a solid ice laboratory at the South Pole last year in a “triumph” that promises to revolutionise understanding of fundamental physics.
Neutrinos are virtually massless, subatomic particles which race across the universe, passing unnoticed through planets and stars.
Despite their abundance - hundreds of billions pass through each human every second - they have so far proved impossible to detect because they interact with matter so rarely.
However, the detection of a neutrino on September 22 2017 has since enabled scientists to identify its point of origin using a complex network of ground and space-based radiation telescopes.
The international team traced the particle’s provenance to a flaring galaxy, or “blazar”, with a supermassive black hole at its heart four billion light years away.
more after the jump:
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/07/12/let-light-ghost-particle-found-mile-beneath-antarctica-holds/?li_source=LI&li_medium=li-recommendation-widget
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Post by swamprat on Jul 13, 2018 14:05:28 GMT
More than you ever wanted to know about Friday the 13th.....Scared yet? 2018 has 2 Friday 13ths
By Bruce McClure in HUMAN WORLD | July 13, 2018
This Friday the 13th comes exactly 13 weeks after 2018’s first Friday the 13th, in April. The whats, whens and whys of Friday the 13th.
Today, Friday, July 13, 2018, is the second of two Friday the 13ths in 2018. Any calendar year has one to three Friday the 13ths. The last time we had only one Friday the 13th in a calendar year was in May 2016 and the next time won’t be until August 2021. Three Friday the 13ths last took place in 2015 (February, March, November), and will next happen in 2026. This year, 2018, has two Friday the 13ths (April and July).
Not that we at EarthSky suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia – an irrational fear of Friday the 13th – but, gosh darn, this year’s first Friday the 13th on April 13, 2018, happened exactly 26 weeks (2 x 13 weeks) after the previous Friday the 13th in October 2017. But that’s hardly the end of the tale. Today’s Friday the 13th (July 13), comes exactly 13 weeks after the year’s first Friday the 13th on April 13, 2018.
Next year, in 2019, the first Friday the 13th of the year in September 2019 will come exactly 13 weeks before the second Friday the 13th in December 2019.
Yikes, these few coincidences involving the number 13 are only the tip of the iceberg. We could cite many more …
Keep reading to investigate the intriguing mathematics behind Friday the 13th and the calendar.
Are all these Friday the 13ths a super coincidence? Super unlucky? Neither. They’re just a quirk of our calendar.
According to folklorists, there’s no written evidence that Friday the 13th was considered unlucky before the 19th century. The earliest known documented reference in English appears to be in Henry Sutherland Edwards’ 1869 biography of Gioachino Rossini.
Still, Friday has always gotten a bad rap. In the Middle Ages, people would not marry – or set out on a journey – on a Friday.
There are also some links between Christianity and an ill association with either Fridays or the number 13. Jesus was said to be crucified on a Friday. Seating 13 people at a table was seen as bad luck because Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is said to have been the 13th guest at the Last Supper. Meanwhile, our word for Friday comes from Frigga, an ancient Scandinavian fertility and love goddess. Christians called Frigga a witch and Friday the witches’ Sabbath.
In modern times, the slasher-movie franchise Friday the 13th has helped keep friggatriskaidekaphobia alive.
We have two Friday the 13ths in 2018 – in April and July – because 2018 is a common year that started on a Monday. Whenever a common year of 365 days starts on a Monday, it’s inevitable that the months of April and July will start on a Sunday. And any month starting on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.
The last time a common year started on a Monday was 11 years ago, in the year 2007, and the next time will be 11 years from 2018, in 2029.
In 2018, Easter Sunday came on April 1, 2018, and a solar eclipse occurs on Friday, July 13, 2018. Eleven years and 22 years from now, in the years 2029 and 2040, we’ll again have Friday the 13ths in April and July. Quite by coincidence – or so it seems – Easter Sunday will again fall on April 1, 2029, and April 1, 2040.
Some of you may wonder if there’s some formula that governs how the Friday the 13th drama repeats itself. The answer is yes! Keep in mind that this twofold April-July Friday the 13th year can only happen during a common year of 365 days, and when January 1 falls on a Monday. Let the intriguing number play begin…
Any calendar year that comes two years after a leap year, as it does in 2018, will have days recurring on the same calendar dates in periods of 11, 17 and 28 years. Therefore, the years 2029, 2035 and 2046 will present twofold April and July Friday the 13ths:
2018 + 11 = 2029
2018 + 17 = 2035
2018 + 28 = 2046
How often do April-July Friday the 13ths happen? More often than you might imagine! The first twofold April-July Friday the 13th year in the 21st century (2001 to 2100) occurred in 2001, which is one year after a leap year. Any calendar year happening one year after a leap year will have days and dates matching up again in periods of 6, 17 and 28 years:
2001 + 6 = 2007
2001 + 17 = 2018
2001 + 28 = 2029
We continue the cycle onward to find a grand total of 11 April-July Friday the 13th years for the 21st century (2001 to 2100):
2001, 2007, 2018, 2029, 2035, 2046, 2057, 2063, 2074, 2085 and 2091
Because the year 2085 is one year after a leap year, with days aligning with dates in 6, 17 and 28 years, we might be tempted to project the three following April-July Friday the 13th years as follows:
2085 + 6 = 2091
2085 + 17 = 2102
2085 + 28 = 2113
Alas, here’s where the Gregorian calendar throws a monkey wrench at us. By Gregorian calendar rules, century years not equally divisible by 400 (e.g. 2100, 2200, 2300) are not leap years of 366 days – but rather, common years of 365 days. So the suppression of the leap year in 2100 “perturbs” the cycle, bringing about the first April-July Friday the 13th year of the 22nd century (2101 to 2200) in the year 2103, instead of 2102.
By good fortune, we can pretend that the year 2103 comes three years after a leap year, to project the recurrence of April-July Friday the 13th years in periods of 11, 22 and 28 years.
2103 + 11 = 2114
2103 + 22 = 2125
2103 + 28 = 2131
We continue the cycle onward to find a total of 11 April-July Friday the 13th years for the 22nd century (2100 to 2200):
2103, 2114, 2125, 2131, 2142, 2153, 2159, 2170, 2181, 2187 and 2198
In the 23rd century (2201 to 2300), the cycle is perturbed again. The first April-July Friday the 13th year does not fall in 2209 – but rather in 2210, which is two years after a leap year. Any calendar year happening two years after a leap year recurs in 11, 17 and 28 years.
Thus, we find 11 April-July Friday the 13th years for the 23rd century (2201 to 2300):
2210, 2221, 2227, 2238, 2249, 2255, 2266, 2277, 2283, 2294 and 2300
In the 24th century (2301 to 2400), the cycle is again perturbed. The first January-October Friday the 13th year does not come in 2311 – but rather in 2306, or two years after a leap year (recurring in cycles of 11, 17 and 28 years). That gives 11 April-July Friday the 13th years for the 24th century (2301 to 2400):
2306, 2317, 2323, 2334, 2345, 2351, 2362, 2373, 2379, 2390 and 2401
Because the year 2400 is a leap year of 366 days, the cycle is not perturbed in the following 25th century (2401 to 2500). So we can keep on going to find 11 April-July Friday the 13th years for the 25th century (2401 to 2500).
2401, 2407, 2418, 2429, 2435, 2446, 2457, 2463, 2474, 2485 and 2491
Statistically speaking … the modal day for the 13th to occur on is Friday, with 688 occurrences in the 4,800-month cycle. (Of course, this is the same graph for the 6th as well as the 13th, 20th and 27th.) Caption and graphic via datagenetics.com.
Rhyme and reason for the 400-year Friday the 13th cycle.
Because the Gregorian calendar has a 400-year cycle, the twofold April-July Friday the 13th years recur in cycles of 400 years. For example, respective April-July Friday the 13th calendar years are exactly 400 years apart in the 21st and 25th centuries:
21st century (2001 to 2100):
2001, 2007, 2018, 2029, 2035, 2046, 2057, 2063, 2074, 2085 and 2091
25th century (2401 to 2500):
2401, 2407, 2418, 2429, 2435, 2446, 2457, 2463, 2474, 2485 and 2491
As magical as all of this Friday the 13th calendar intrigue appears to be, it’s not supernatural. It’s entertaining number play, even if it may haunt our uncomprehending minds.
Can April-July Friday the 13ths happen in a leap year?
Yes, if the leap year of 366 days starts on a Sunday. That means there’s a Friday, January 13th, in the mix, too, featuring a total of three Friday the 13ths! This last occurred in the year 2012 and will next happen in 2040. Any leap year starting on a Sunday has three Friday the 13ths: January 13 – and then 13 weeks later, on April 13, and then 13 weeks after that, on July 13. The days and dates of any leap year match up again in periods of 28 years. So we have only four January-April-July Friday the 13th years in the 21st century (2001 to 2100):
2012, 2040, 2068 and 2096
Bottom line: Scared of Friday the 13th? It’s just a feature of our Gregorian calendar, and a pretty common one at that.
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