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While the original intention was for this page to be about the digit 9, the material strays to the number and word nine -- oh, well.

September or November
Tom asked me to mention that nein means no in German.
Other facts about 9 (additional suggestions welcome):

• 9 looks like 6 upside-down
• Nine is the largest single digit! (in the decimal system)
• 9 looks similar to a right apostrophe or a deflated helium balloon
• 9 is 3 squared and 1 more than 2 cubed
• 9 has never purposely caused harm to anyone
• If you add up the digits in a number evenly divisable by nine, the resulting sum will also be divisible by nine. E.g., 981, 9+8+1=18, 1+8=9.
• The most common armadillo is the nine-banded armadillo.
• William Henry Harrison was the 9th president of the U.S.A.
• Jif peanut butter has 9% of Daily Value for 2000 calorie diet.
• A type of gun is the 9mm.
• The telephone number to call in emergencies is 999 in the U.K. 911 in the U.S.

Phrases with "9":

• the nine lives of cats
• nine holes of golf
• the whole nine yards
• cat o'nine tails
• ninety to nothing
• ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall
• ninepins
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• nine months of pregnancy
• cloud nine
• nine to five
• 9 ball is a pool game
• Miner 49-er
• A dog is a K-9! Some police departments have K-9 units

• The Nine Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto (A mirror site)
• Muses: Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania and Thalia

• Revolution 9 - Beatles
• Engine Number 9 - ?
• Love Potion Number 9 - ? (also a movie)
• "We're gonna party like it's 1999" - ?
• 867-5309 - Jenny
• Hey Nineteen... - Chicago
• Nine Inch Nails (group)
• 99 red balloons - Nena
• Engine No. 9
• 1999 - Prince (at least that was what he was called then)
• 867-5309 - Jenny
• Hey Nineteen... - Chicago
• The Group: Nine Inch Nails
• 99 red balloons - Nena
• Holtz (classical composer) wrote music for each of the nine planets.

The Muses were the daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne (Memory). They presided over song, and prompted the memory. They were nine in number, to each of whom was assigned presidence over some particular department of literature, art, or science. Calliope was the muse of epic poetry, Clio of history, Euterpe of lyric poetry, Melpomene of tragedy, Terpsichore of choral dance and song, Erato of love poetry, Polyhymnia of sacred poetry, Urania of astronomy, Thalia of comedy.

from Bulfinch's Complete Mythology, The Introduction to The Age of Fable

Web Pages Related to 9

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Other Miscellaneous 9s

• Movie: Nine Months
• "Whole Nine Months" - web site for maternity clothes (will add the link when I get it)
• Web site: Nine Plus - specializing in surfboards (nine foot and longer), surfwear, accessories and long skateboards.
• SoyBomb wears shoe size 9 narrow. ;-)
• There were 99 puppies in 101 dalmations.
• "Nine West" shoes
• Oldsmobile makes a 99.
• 9 volt battery
• Laura Ingalls Wilder and her nine Little House books.
• Formula 409
• Some golf courses only have 9 holes.
• Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days in 1553.
• The Delaware State Fair lasts nine days.
• There are Nine supreme court justices for the United States of America.
• Yahoo VISA was 9.99% APR.
• Social security numbers (USA) have 9 digits.
• Nine to the first power is always Nine.
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