- The number of years in a century
- A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian. George Burns. Bob Hope, and United States Senator Strom Thurmond were among those who had lived to 100.
- 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 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
- Radio stations such as Z100 WHTZ New York and Z100 KKRZ, Portland, Oregon
- 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
Thursday, April 17, 2008
100
This my one hundredth post on this blog, it took me three years but I have made it to a hundred. Hopefully it won't me as long to make it to two hundred. So here are some fact about the number one hundred according to Wikipedia.
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