Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th

Friggatriskaidekaphobia is another word for the fear of Friday the 13th

Collins English Dictionary Entry:

Thirteen (NOUN)
1. the ordinal number that is the sum of ten and three and is a prime number.
2. a numeral, 13. XIII etc., representing this number.
3. the amount or quantity that is three more than ten; baker’s dozen.
4 something represented by, representing, or consisting of 13 units +DETERMINER
5 a) amounting to thirteen: thirteen buses. b) (as pronoun): thirteen of them fell.

Thirteenth (ADJECTIVE)
1. (usually prenominal) of coming after the twelth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc.; being the ordinal number of thirteen +often written 13th.
b) (as noun): Friday the thirteenth +NOUN
2. a) one of thirteen equal or nearly equal parts of something. b) (as modifier): a thirteenth part.
3. the fraction equal to one divided by 13 (1/13)
4. Music a) an interval of one octave plus a sixth. b) short for thirteenth cord.

 

The number 13 in mathematics:

 

The 13 times table

1 x 13 = 13
2 x 13 = 26
3 x 13 = 39
4 x 13 = 52
5 x 13 = 65
6 x 13 = 78
7 x 13 = 91
8 x 13 = 104
9 x 13 = 117
10 x 13 = 130
11 x 13 = 143
12 x 13 = 156
13 x 13 = 169

13 is the number after 12 and the one before 14.
13 as a fraction is 1/13
Thirteenth - The ordinal number of 13 - The fraction equal to one divided by 13 (1/13)
13 in Binary form is 1101.
13 in Roman numerals is XIII
13 as a word Thirteen

13 is the 6th Prime number.
(This is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.)

13 is the 7th Fibonacci number.
(Fibonacci numbers are a pattern of numbers. The sequence is as follows: add the last two numbers together to get the next number in the pattern.)

13 is the fourth Happy Number
(A happy number is defined by the following process. Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number equals 1 (where it will stay), or it loops endlessly in a cycle which does not include 1. Those numbers for which this process ends in 1 are happy numbers, while those that do not end in 1 are unhappy numbers.)

13 is a Delanoy number.
(In maths, a Delannoy number describes the number of paths from the southwest corner (0, 0) of a rectangular grid to the northeast corner (m, n), using only single steps north, northeast, or east.)

13 is a Centre Squared number.
(A centered square number is a centered figurate number that gives the number of dots in a square with a dot in the center and all other dots surrounding the center dot in successive square layers.)

13 is the 2nd Star number.
(This is a centred figurate number that represents a centred hexagram).

13 is an Emirp number.
(This is a Prime number that results in a different number when reversed)

13 is the 2nd Wilson Prime number.
(By Wilson’s theorem we know that every prime p divides (p-1)!+1. p is a Wilson prime if p² divides (p-1)!+1.)

13 is a centred 12-Gonal number.
(Each term is: Six times the number squared plus six times the number plus one.)

13 is the 5th Mersenne Prime exponent.
(A Mersenne prime is a Mersenne number that is prime.)

13 is the 3rd lucky Prime number.
(A lucky prime is a lucky number that is also a prime number.)

13 is a Markov number.
( A Markov number is a positive integer x, y or z that is part of a solution to the Markov Diophantine equation.)

13 is the only positive Integer number that is the fourth root of the sum of the squares of two successive Integers. Numbers 119 and 120

13 goes into 999,999 exactly 76,923 times.

In base fourteen and higher bases such as hexadecimal the number 13 is represented by the letter D

The Golden number of the year 2007 is 13.

The Chinese abacus consists of 13 columns of beads.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, "What is six times nine" is posed as the question to the answer to life, the universe and everything of 42. This happens to be true in base 13. (13, 6₁₃ × 9₁₃ is actually 42₁₃ (as 4 × 13 + 2 = 54, i.e. 54 in decimal is equal to 42 expressed in base 13)

At 13, the Mertens function sets a new low of - 3, subseded later at 31 with a value of - 4.

If you add the two digits together from 13 you get 1+ 3 = 4.

13 is the some of 10 + 3.

The 13th digit of pi is 7.

In Base 6 the number 9 is a 2-automorphic number which is displayed as '13'.

 

In Science and the Universe 13 is also a magical number

There are 13 major joints in the human body.

There are 13 Archimedean Solids.

There are 13 gates of the human body of Woman:-
2 Eyes
2 Ears
2 Nostrils
the Mouth
2 Breasts
the Navel
the Anus
the Urethra
and the Vagina

HEART = (Using position in the Alphabet) 8 + 5 + 1 + 18 + 20 = 52 = 4 x 13

13 is the Atomic number of Aluminium.

There are 13 lunations in a year, and 13 lunar cycles in a solar year.

The Moon travels across the sky every day by 13 degrees.

4.134105 x 10²⁸ years—The time period equivalent to the value of 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.0.0.0.0 in the Mesoamerican Long Count, a date discovered on a stela at the Coba Maya site, believed to be the absolute value for the length of one cycle of the universe.

The symbol for the start and the end (the Alpha and Omega) in the Aztec calendar is called 13 Cane.

 

The Sumerians used a Zodiac which included 13 constellations and 26 (2 x 13) main stars.

There are 52 weeks in a year. (4 x 13)

The four periods of the Pagan calendar are comprised of 4 periods of 13 weeks. These are:-
Winter Solstice
Spring Equinox
Summer Solstice
Autumnal Equinox

The 13 th Baktun of the Mayan long count ends on December 21st 2012. (Date of intrigue in many myths and legends). Each Mayan creation epoch lasts for 5125 years.
(5 + 1 + 2 + 5 = 13)

13 is the number of signs in the Glastonbury Zodiac.

There is supposed to be a hidden 13th sign of the Zodiac called Arachne.

M13 (Messier 13) is the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Also known as NGC 6205 (6 + 2 + 0 + 5 = 13). It was discovered in 1714 (1 + 7 + 1 + 4 + 13).
It is also interesting to note that M. is the 13th letter of the alphabet so M13 could be classed as being 1313 in a numerical value.

NGC13 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Andromeda.

NGC 1313 is a starburst galaxy in the constellation of Reticulum.

The 13th Moon of Jupiter is called Elara.

The 13th brightest star in the sky is Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus.

Carbon 13 (13C) in Physics is a natural stable isotope of carbon and one of the environmental isotopes. It has 6 protons and 7 neutrons (6 + 7 = 13)

Carbon 13 NMR ( 13C NMR) is the application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Spectroscopy to carbon.

The word Earth when using each letters position in the alphabet is 5 + 1 + 18 + 20 + 8 = 52 which is 4 x 13).

13 is the number of Early Stage Embryos created to partially clone humans in October 2011.

Trisomy 13, also called Patau syndrome, is a chromosomal condition associated with severe intellectual disability and physical abnormalities in many parts of the body. Individuals with trisomy 13 often have heart defects, brain or spinal cord abnormalities, very small or poorly developed eyes (microphthalmia), extra fingers and/or toes, an opening in the lip (a cleft lip) with or without an opening in the roof of the mouth (a cleft palate), and weak muscle tone (hypotonia).

Chromosome 13
What is chromosome 13?
Humans normally have 46 chromosomes in each cell, divided into 23 pairs. Two copies of chromosome 13, one copy inherited from each parent, form one of the pairs. Chromosome 13 is made up of about 114 million DNA building blocks (base pairs) and represents between 3.5 percent and 4 percent of the total DNA in cells.

13 is also a mystical and magical number in Mythology, the Occult, Mysteries and ancient history.

There are 12 Knights of the Round Table as well as King Arthur himself.
(12 + 1 = 13)

Arthurian Myth - Lady of the Lake has 13 letters.

During the quest for the Holy Grail, a damsel offers Bors (Knight of King Arthur) her love, which he refuses. Because of this the damsel along with 12 other women (1 + 12 = 13) threaten to throw themselves from a tower. As they fall from the tower Bors thinks they had better lose their souls than his so he crosses himself and all vanish due to it being a deceit of the Devil.

Arthurian Grail Legends
Conte Del Graal = 13 letters
Didot Perceval = 13 letters

Merlin was said to have been captured by Nimue disguised as a hare. The legend says he now guards the 13 Treasures of Britain and awaits rebirth. At Alderley Edge in Cheshire, Merlin is said to be underground with 13 Knights waiting for England’s hour of need.

The 13th Tarot card is Death.

The 13th Rune is Eiwaz. This rune is the balance point between light and dark.

There are said to be 13 Crystal Skulls.

In Norse mythology, an honorary banquet was held in Valhalla for Baldur with 12 Norse Gods. Loki arrives but is an uninvited guest. He is the 13th guest.

In Norse mythology 13 is a symbol of the Goddess Freya and her day is Friday.

On Friday 13th October 1307 the Knights Templar were arrested by order of the King of France Philippe IV.

Jacques de Molay the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was burned to death on Friday 13th March 1314.

13 is a very unique and special number to the Illuminati. There main numbers are 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 33

The 13th Degree in Freemasonry is called the Royal Arch.

13 is the most correct number for Freemasons.

New World Order = 13 letters

There are said to be 13 Illuminati families, these are:
Astor
Bundy
Collins
Dupont
Freeman
Kennedy
Li
Onassis
Reynolds
Rockefeller
Rothschild
Russell
Van Duyn

In Ancient China the meaning of the number 13 was Completion and Perfection.

In Numerology the Western Astrological Series of numbers 13 means New Beginnings.

In some occult circles the days of the week are ruled by 13 angels:
Monday – Gabriel
Tuesday – Zamael and Khamael
Wednesday – Michael and Raphael
Thursday – Tzaphiel and Sachiel
Friday – Anael and Haniel
Saturday – Tzaphiel and Cassiel
Sunday – Michael and Raphael

The 13th Hexagram of the I-Ching is T’ung Jen – Fellowship with men.

There are 13 notches on the horn carried by the Venus of Laussel.

The secretive Sisters of the Divine Goddess use this number as their emblem. They are the followers of the 13th Fae of Annwn. Their leaders are the Thirteenth Sage and the Thirteenth Goddess or Lady Fae of the Lake.

In ancient mythology the number 13 represents the Great Mother Goddess.

In Classical Antiquity the 13th member of a group was considered to be a leader.

13 is an emblem for Sacred and Secret Knowledge.

An Old English Superstition says that if 13 people meet in a room one of them will die within the year.

An old saying states that if you have 13 letters in your name you will have the Devil’s luck.
(People with 13 letters in their name)

In England the day of 24 hours used to be divided into 13 parts:

After-Midnight
Cock-Crow
Between the first Cock-Crow and Daybreak
Dawn
Morning
Noon
Afternoon
Sunset
Twilight
Evening
Candle-Time
Bed-Time
Dead of Night

The Battle of Hastings in England was in 1066 (1 + 0 + 6 + 6 = 13)

Old English death portent – A clock striking 13 is an omen of death.

In Old England farmers wives would always set 13 eggs under a hen for incubation, considering it unlucky to provide the hen with an even number.

In Herefordshire and Monmouthshire the Wassailing Ceremony was applied to farm crops and livestock. During this ceremony the farmer and his men would make a ring of 12 small bonfires around 1 large bonfire. (12 + 1 = 13)

Gerald Gardner believed 13 was the ideal number for a coven. This was made up of six perfect couples of men and women, plus a leader.

Gerald B. Gardner was born on Friday 13th June 1884.

13 Witches were executed at Salem during the Witch Trials in 1692.

Witchcraft - Book of Shadows = 13 letters.

A Witches Coven traditionally numbers 13.

The Council of American Witches has 13 Principles of Wiccan belief.

13 was the original number of covens that formed COG (Covenant of the Goddess) in 1975.

All Hallows' Eve (13 letters) better known as Halloween.

John Dee, Alchemist, Mathematician, Astronomer and Astrologer was born on July 13th 1527 (Excluding the 13th but using July and the year 7 + 1 + 5 + 2 + 7 = 13). So as well as 13 within the date the remaining numbers also make 13.

The Order of the Garter is the highest order of Knights in Great Britain founded by King Edward III (13 letters and numbers).
The order originally numbered 26 (2 x 13). There were 12 Knights which were led by King Edward III (12 + 1 = 13) and 12 Knights led by the Prince of Wales (12 + 1 = 13). In modern times it has 12 Canons and a Dean (12 + 1 = 13). As chief of the order King Edward III bore 168 garters, plus an extra one on his leg (168 + 1 = 169 = 13 x 13).

There are 13 Doctrines of the Bards:-

Truth
Light
Equality
Peace
Man
Animals
Good
Love
Evil
Rewards and Punishments
Penitence and Sacrifice
Providence
and Eternity

The sacred chord of the Druids had 13 segments.

Celtic Mythology: Ysbaddaden gave 39 (3 x 13) tasks to Culhwch to perform in exchange for the hand of his daughter Olwen.

Slavic Mythology:
In the myth called The Twelve Months is the following passage:
”The little girl went out into the driving snow and after a time was surprised to see a light flickering through the trees. Then she smelt warm smoke and heard the crackle of burning logs. Before she realised it she found herself in a clearing; round a bonfire sat 12 men quietly talking. Three were old, three of middle years, three youths and three just boys still. These were the twelve months!”
(Girl) 1 + (Months / Men) 12 = 13)

Joseph Campbell believes there are 175 different flood myths around the world (1 + 7 + 5 = 13)

In ancient Greece Zeus was counted as the 13 th God. He was the most powerful of all the Gods of Greece.

In Egyptian mythology Osiris was murdered by his brother Typhon. Osiris’s wife Isis then collected his body intent on bringing Osiris back to life, however Typhon stole the body and cut it into fourteen pieces and scattered them over the earth. Isis though continued her quest and found all but 1 body part which was his penis. (14 – 1 = 13)

In Ancient Egypt the meaning of the number 13 was Immortality.

In Egyptian mythology there are 13 steps on the ladder that leads to eternity.

The legendary King Prester John (meaning John the Priest was believed to have been 562 years old
(5 + 6 + 2 = 13).

Hebrew
מ = Mem = M = 13
The Esoteric meaning of this Hebrew letter is Death, however the normal meaning is Water.

 

 

13 Is also a very unique number in more modern times?

 

In 1945 the B-29 bomber sent to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima was on Mission 13. If you convert the B from B-29 to its numerical alphabet number of 2 and add it with the other numbers of 2 and 9 it also makes 13.

Apparently it is believed that 13 was the number of plutonium slugs in Fat Man, the Atomic Bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki.

Princess Diana (13 letters) and Dodi Fayed were killed in 1997 (1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26 = 2 x 13) when their car crashed into pillar 13 in the Alma Tunnel in Paris.

The explosion of the Apollo 13 spacecraft happened at 1.13pm or (13.13 in 24 hour time) on April 13th 1970.

The Titanic sank in 1912. (1 + 9 + 1 + 2 = 13)

Saddam Hussein (13 letters) was captured on December 13th.

The space shuttle Columbia was sent into space on January 16th 2003 (1 + 1 + 6 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 3 = 13) On re-entry the shuttle exploded killing all aboard.

The last space shuttle flight mission STS-135 by Atlantis touched down on Thursday 21st July 2011 after its 13 day misson to restock the International Space Station.

Flight 175 (1 + 7 + 5 = 13) had 65 (5 x 13) people on board. This plane struck the south tower on September 11th 2001.

Pope John Paul II was shot in Rome on the 13th May 1981, from which he fully recovered. When he did eventually die in 2005 it was at 21.37hrs local time on the 02nd April 2005. (2 + 1 + 3 + 7 = 13) and (0 + 2 + 0 + 4 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 13)

13 is the number of years it has taken to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. 1998 to 2011.

The Martin Mariner (13 letters) rescue plane sent out to search for Flight 19 over the Bermuda Triangle also disappeared along with its crew of 13.

Sabotaged Flight Pan Am 103 (take out the zero and you get - 13) was brought down over Scotland on December 21st 1998.

Former Yankee manager and player Ralph Hauk died on July 21st 2010 (7 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 0 = 13).
Bob Shephard, announcer for the Yankees when they won 13 World Series Championships died on July 11th 2010.

The Cuban missile crisis lasted for 13 days. From the 15th October 1962 to the 28th October 1962 when an agreement was signed for the removal of American missiles from Turkey in exchange for the removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

The cruise ship Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Italy was on Friday 13th 2012.

13 in Religion

 

12 Apostles and Jesus (12 + 1 = 13).

12 Sons of Jacob (12 + 1 = 13).

13 th Tribe of Levi.

The yod - י hay - ה vav - ו hay - ה (HaShem) name has a gematria of 2 X 13 = 26.

Allegory: The Trinity – One God (1) 3 Persons (13)

According to the Torah God has 13 Attributes of Mercy.

In Judaism 13 is the number of Love.

In Hebrew one is 'Ehad' and love is 'Ahaba'. These words refer to the same transcendental reality and in Gematria they have the same value of 184 (1 + 8 + 4 = 13)

A fragment of Papyrus 115 which contains the earliest known form of the part of The Book of Revelation concerning the Beast gives the number 616 (6 + 1 + 6 = 13).

In Jewish religion a boy is considered to be an adult at the age of 13 and is called Bar Mitzvah.

The Sistine Chapel has 13 letters. Using numerology the letters also add up to 52 (4 x 13).

Prehistoric Goddess worshippers allegedly revered the number 13 as it corresponds to the number of lunar (Menstrual) cycles in a year. (13 x 28 = 364).

Reincarnation has 13 letters.

Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah. (65 = 5 x 13)

The first appearance of the number 13 in the Bible is in Genesis XIV.4 – “Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.”

13 is the number of chapters in Nehemiah, II Corinthians and St. Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews.

In Kabalistic teachings Metatron’s cube is made up of 13 circles or nodes.

The Kabalah states there are 13 Spirits of Evil.

There are 13 Conformations of the Holy Beard.
According to the Kabbalah Unveiled by S.L. Macgregor Mathers, the number of the parts of the beard is 13, which are now completed in this disposition. But 13 = AChD, Achad, Unity, and also AHBH, Ahebah, Love. Hence love of unity ariseth when the 13 are complete. And the head of Macroprosopus ariseth, because that is Kether, the first Sephira, the number one, unity.

There are 13 titles for the Anti-Christ in the New Testament.

The Targum of Jonathon says Eve was created from the 13 th rib of Adam’s right side.

Our Lady of Fatima (Virgin Mary) gave three shepherd children an apparition of herself on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917 starting on May 13th.

In Hinduism on the 13th day of death a feast is held called Tehranvi.

Psalm 13 is “How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? For ever?

Feast of the Epiphany is held on the 13th day after Christmas Eve.

In Confucianism the 13th chapter of the Lun Yü is Tzŭ Lu.

Amen, Jehovah and Adonai in Hebrew add up to a numerical value of 91 (7 x 13).

 

 

Alphabet Method

AL along with other inscriptions can denote God (Using there respective place in the alphabet A1 + L12 = 13).

Angel using the same method as above gives the number 39 (3 x 13).

Devil using the same method as above gives the number 52 (4 x 13)

Lord using the same method as above gives the number 49 (4+9=13)

God using the same method as above gives the number 26 (2 x 13)

BIBLE could be thought of in this way. The capital B's could be 13's, then we have the letters I - L - E left which using their position in the alphabet give the numbers 9 + 12 + 5 = 26 = 2 x 13

Modern Numerology Method.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R
S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z

 

Atman: 1 + 2 + 4 + 1 + 5 = 13 (Sanskrit for soul)

Jnana: 1 + 5 + 1 + 5 + 1 = 13 (Sanskrit for knowledge)

Soul: 1 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 13

Allegory: The Supreme Triangle has 3 sides called Kether, Chochmah and Binah. 1 Triangle 3 Sides (13).

The Wolf is mentioned 13 times in the Bible.

Genesis 2.2-3
On the sixth day God completed all the work he had been doing, and on the seventh day he ceased from all his work. (6 + 7 = 13)

Genesis 5. 3-4
Adam was one hundred and thirty years old (10 x 13) when he begot a son in his likeness and image, and named him Seth.
19(S) + 5(E) + 20(T) + 8(H) = 52 (4 x 13)

Rabbi Elias says that in certain writings, Adam was visited during a hundred and thirty (130 = 10 x 13) years by female demons and had intercourse with demons, spirits, spectres, lemurs and phantoms.

Genesis 13.13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord

Ishmael (Meaning God heard)
9(I) + 19(S) + 8(H) + 13(M) + 1(A) + 5(E) + 12(L) = 67 (6 + 7 = 13)

13 is classed as a holy number and is the day of Epiphany. This gives it an alternate name of Theophanicus.

 

Other interesting facts

 

On the US $1 bill there are:-
13 levels of the pyramid
13 stars
13 arrows
13 stripes
13 leaves
13 olives

Originally there were 13 colonies of the USA.

The American flag has 13 horizontal stripes, 6 white and 7 red.

The Great Seal of the United States has:
13 stars
13 arrows
13 berries
13 stripes
13 leaves

It also has two phrases on it:
Annuit Coeptis = 13 letters
and Pluribus Unum = 13 letters

The 13th President of the United States of America was Millard Fillmore 1850 – 1853.

In the Nation's Capitol the father of "ONE nation under God," George Washington, is memorialized in the rotunda ceiling on a mural entitled, The Apophiosis of Washington. The mural pictures the nation’s first father surrounded by 13 maidens.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865 (1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 8 + 6 + 5 = 13), and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.

George W. Bush is apparently the 13th cousin of Queen Elizabeth, and is a 13th cousin once removed to Prince Charles, the heir to the throne. His family tree charts his descent from Henry III and Henry VIII’s sister Mary Tudor. It also says he is a descendent of Charles II of England. It should also be noted that he became America's 43rd President on December 13th 2000 when Gore conceded.

The Masonic cornerstone laying for the White House which was the first public building built in Washington D.C. was on October 13th 1792, according to a letter from a gentleman in a Charleston newspaper.

13 was the number of pages of a brief written on Witchcraft by the American law firm Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander of New York City in the 1960's.

Charles Manson who led a commune called the Manson Family who was convicted of Murder and Conspiracy in the Tate / LaBianca murders was held in a special jail cell on the 13th floor of the courthouse in the early 1970's.

According to a survey by Zoopla, the property website, the average number 13 house is worth less than its identical neighbours by about £4000.

North American Cicadas (insects) only emerge once every 13 years in what is known as the Great Southern Brood.

Hippodamia 13-punctata is the 13-spot ladybird that was rediscovered in September 2011 after British scientists believed it had died out in 1952.

Taylor Swift believes she has a weird connection with the number 13. Not only is it the day she was born on in December 1989, but over the years it has become so much more. "I was born on the 13th. I turned 13 on Friday the 13th. My first album went gold in 13 weeks. My first No. 1 song had a 13-second intro," she said. "Every time I've won an award I've been seated in the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter."

 

There are 52 (4 x 13) cards in a deck of playing cards, these are:
13 Hearts
13 Clubs
13 Spades
13 Diamonds

13 is the start of being a teenager.

The 13th letter of the Alphabet is M. The Alphabet itself consisting of 26 letters (2 x 13).

There is a phrase which is as follows: At Sixes and Sevens (6 + 7 = 13)

Alton Towers has a rollercoaster called Thi3teen. It was closed on Friday 13th 2010 to spare the nerves of the superstitious.

In Scotland the number 13 is called the Devil’s Dozen.

13 is also a Baker’s Dozen.

13 can also be called a Long Dozen.

Thirteen in different languages

African	Dertien	Hebrew	שְׁלוֹשָה עָשָר , שְלוֹש ע	Polish	Trzynaście
Arabic	الرّقم	*Hebrew	Yod Gimel	Persian	Treze
Brazilian	Treze	Hungarian	Tizenhárom	Russian	тринадцать
Bulgarian	тринадесет	Italian	Tredici	Romanian	Treisprezece
Croatian	Broj ili Znamenka Trinaes	Icelandic	þrettán ára	Spanish	Trece
Czech	Třináct	Indonesian	Tiga Belas	Serbian	Broj Trinaest
Danish	Tretten	Latin	Trêdecim	Slovak	Trinásť
Dutch	Dertien	Lithuanian	Trylika	Swedish	Tretton
Estonian	Kolmteist	Latvian	Trīspadsmit	Slovenian	Trinajst
French	Treize	Middle English	Thirttene	Turkish	Onüç
Farsi	سیزده	Malay	Tiga Belas	Urdu	تيرہ کا عدد
Finnish	Kolmetoista	Norwegian	Tretten	Ukranian	тринадцять
German	Dreizehn	Old English	Thrēotēne	Vietnamese	s ố
Greek	δεκατρία	Old Norse	Threttān
Greek	Treiskaideka	*Punjabi	Tera

* Punjabi Tera (which also means YOURS)
* Hebrew Yod Gimel (Yod =10 and Gimel = 3)

In Spanish speaking countries Tuesday the 13th is a day of bad luck. Commonly referred as 'Martes trece' (Tuesday Thirteenth).

Friday the 13th is believed to be unlucky.

The number 13 is said to be unlucky.

European Union = 13 letters - Please note it used to be called the EEC (5 + 5 + 3 = 13)

Article 13 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights Of the European Union
is Freedom of the arts and sciences.
" The arts and scientific research shall be free of constraint. Academic freedom shall be respected"

United Nations = 13 letters
United Kingdom = 13 letters

The following months have a Friday the 13th:

Month	Years
January	1978, 1984, 1989, 1995, 2006, 2012, 2017, 2023
February	1976, 1981, 1987, 1998, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2026
March	1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2009, 2015, 2020, 2026
April	1973, 1979, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2018
May	1977, 1983, 1988, 1994, 2005, 2011, 2016, 2022
June	1975, 1980, 1986, 1997, 2003, 2008, 2014, 2025
July	1973, 1979, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2018
August	1976, 1982, 1993, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2021, 2027
September	1974, 1985, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2013, 2019, 2024
October	1978, 1989, 1995, 2000, 2006, 2017, 2023, 2028
November	1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, 2009, 2015, 2020, 2026
December	1974, 1985, 1991, 1996, 2002, 2013, 2019, 2024

The 13th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 13 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, Central America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean.

The 13th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 13 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America.

In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the interval between the sixth and first scale degrees when the sixth is transposed up an octave, creating a compound sixth, or thirteenth.

Traditional 13th wedding anniversary gifts have a theme of Lace.

A Contemporary or Modern Thirteenth anniversary gift has a theme of Textiles and Furs.

Using the alphabet the two letters you get from the number 13 are 1 =A and 3=C. The word Ac means Oak, the tree of life and also the tree of marriage and healing.

Thirteen is the first number that uses a line and a squiggle, two images that ancient man used in his carvings.

In 24 Hour Clock / Military Time 1.00pm is 13.00hrs.

The Labour Party spent 13 years in power from the election of Tony Blair as Prime Minister in 1997 to their defeat under Gordon Brown in 2010, when David Cameron became Prime Minister of the Con-Lib coalition.

George Clooney sponsored his ex Lisa Snowdon £13,000 to jump out of a plane for charity after they had broke up. (Reported in October 2011).

UK power firm profits have soared 733% (7 + 3 + 3 = 13) in four months. (Reported in October 2011).

A military plane crash in southern Morocco has killed 78 people, the state news agency in Morocco reports. The Moroccan C-130 (10 x 13 = 130) military plane crashed in the southern part of the country, state-run Agence Maghreb Arabe Presse reported. The aircraft, belonging to Morocco's Royal Armed Forces, crashed in a mountainous area near the city of Guelmim, the report said, citing local sources. (Reported July 26th 2011)

Modern book ISBN No.'s are now 13 digits long for example: 978-184831-192-3

UPC/EAN- 13 Bar code system.

Rugby League is played with teams of 13 players.

Under British law, when you reach the age of 13 you can get a part-time job, but you cannot work for more than two hours on a school day or a Sunday.

The Thirteen Club was created in the 1800's to debunk the theory of 13 people at a table. They meet on the 13th of the month, and serve dinner to 13 guests at each table.

The 13 Degrees is a venue for parties or nights out in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. They reside at 13 St. Georges Road, Cheltenham.

Colgate University is a private arts college in Hamilton, New York. It was founded in 1819 by 13 men, (Six Clergymen and Seven Laymen). Colgate University offers 52 (4 x 13) undergraduate concentrations leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree. They reside at 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, New York.

If you book a party of 13 at a table in the Savoy Hotel, to stave off bad luck they will use a 3 foot statue called Kasper the cat who will be given a full place setting and served each course.

Sir David Attenborough has 13 letters after his name from honours, including The Order of the Merit and Fellow of the Royal Society.

13 are the number of heads on the login page for Facebook.

Using the Alphabet system FACEBOOK = 6 + 1 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 15 + 15 + 11 = 58 = [5 + 8 = 13]

The ASCII value for 013 is CR (Carriage Return).

13 is the number of competing nations that were involved in the second modern Olympic Games that were held in Paris (1900).

13 is the number of years it took Russia to build the Trans Siberian Railway (1891 – 1904).

Six circles placed around a seventh central circle is a model of geometric efficiency and perfection in the second dimension that has been known to mathematicians for ages. But this same configuration in three dimensions consists of 12 spheres arranged around one central sphere, making 13 in all. The most compact three-dimensional arrangement recurrent in nature.
"The above was taken from an article titled "The Number 13" by Adriana Sassoon, which was posted in People on Sunday, February 13, 2011. "

13 is the number of Conservatives who abstained from the vote for the motion in the commons to hold a referendum on the European Union. The Sun Newspaper 27.10.2011

An estimated 13% of cancer patients do not get access to radiotherapy in the UK. The Sun Newspaper 27.10.2011

13 months is the amount of time Paul and Rachel Chandler from the UK were held captive by Somali pirates. 2009 - Nov 2010

13 is the number of years that Ma Lin from Yuan-yang, Central China had kept £8,000 in banknotes under his bed, sealed in a jar only to find they had turned to mush due to cracks in the jars. 2011

Thorpe Park Theme Park carried out a survey of various questions and found 13% of people feared scientific testing would go against nature, with "disastrous consequences". October 2011

13 is a new play at the National Theatre, London by Mike Bartlett.

British racing car driver Dan Wheldon, 33 was killed in a 15-car collision at the Indy 300 in Las Vegas on lap 13. The Times Newspaper - October 17th 2011

A man of 39 (3 x 13) in Hudiksvall, Sweden was jailed for 18 months in October 2011 for capturing 13,000 (1000 x 13) wild birds.

Consider the pound sign (£). The sign itself that represents the British Pound is really a letter L (12) which stands for Libra in Latin which is a Roman unit of weight, with a crossbar (1) = 12 + 1 = 13

The I.P. Address of XEROX CORPORATION is 13.13.13.13.

Unlucky for home
Superstitious home buyers shun houses at No 13, figures have shown - knocking £6,500 off their value. A study of Land Registry data since 2001 found 34 per cent fewer properties sold with the "unlucky" number, compared with similar neighbouring houses. They also fetched 4.1 per cent less, an average loss of £6,511 (6 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 13). Sales also fell by a third on the 13th day of the month, analysts at FinaProperty.com found.
The Sun Newspaper - November 14th 2011

Anders Behring Breivik's written statement to the court was 13 pages long.
BBC News - 17th April 2012

Using the Modern Numerology Method

Star = 1 + 2 + 1 + 9 = 13

Yes = 7 + 5 + 1 = 13

Two = 2 + 5 + 6 = 13

Using the Alphabet Method

C.I.A. = 3 + 9 + 1 + 13

 

The Number 13 in Pictures and Photographs

Companies, Societies etc. with the Number 13 in the Title.

Company Logos and Emblems Featuring or Having a Number 13 Theme, Includes Flags.

TV Programmes and Films with 13 in the title.



If you know of any other information on or about the NUMBER 13 then please let us know. As we are trying to make this the most comprehensive article ever on the number.

Question has anyone heard of the letter V standing for the number 13 in any way. Similar to how D is used in mathematics. If you do know of anything please let me know personally at gnosticrob@aol.com
This is for a theory we have about this and a few other letters.

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