
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.- 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
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