09/09/09

What is so special in 09/09/09... I just found the answers:

• September 9, 2009, is the 252nd day of the year, 252 adds to 9, and 09-09-09 = 27.
  

• 09-09-09 is also the last of the single-digits dates for quite a while - 92 years to be precise. The next single digits date will be until January 1, 2101

• It is also the upside-down number of "the beast" - satan = 666, of course.

• The day itself falls on a Wednesday and both Wednesday & September have 9 letters.

• the sum of the two-digits resulting from nine multiplied by any other single-digit number will equal nine. So 9x3=27, and 2+7=9 or 9x6 = 54, and 5 + 4 = 9.

• It takes exactly nine minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth.

• After traveling to the nine corners of the earth, it took Odysseus nine years to get back to Greece

• Many superstitious people and psychics believe that if you dream about the number nine, a child will soon be brought into your home.

• According to the Christian angelic hierarchy, there are nine choirs of angels.

• In Norse Mythololgy, Odin hung himself on an ash tree for nine days, in order to learn the runes.

• Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer, is the ninth month of the calendar.

• A nine-pointed star is used to symbolize the Bahá’í Faith, which symbolizes completeness in the religion.

• Nine monks are involved in almost every important Buddhist ritual.

- Loving 9 -

Both China and Japan have strong feelings about the number nine. Those feelings just happen to be on opposite ends of the spectrum.

The Chinese pulled out all the stops to celebrate their lucky number eight during last year's Summer Olympics, ringing the games in at 8 p.m. on 08/08/08. What many might not realize is that nine comes in second on their list of auspicious digits and is associated with long life, due to how similar its pronunciation is to the local word for long-lasting (eight sounds like wealth).

Historically, ancient Chinese emperors associated themselves closely with the number nine, which appeared prominently in architecture and royal dress, often in the form of nine fearsome dragons. The imperial dynasties were so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex at Beijing's Forbidden City is rumored to have been built with 9,999 rooms.

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Japanese emperors would have never worn a robe with nine dragons, however.

In Japanese, the word for nine is a homophone for the word for suffering, so the number is considered highly unlucky - second only to four, which sounds like death.

Many Japanese will go so far as to avoid room numbers including nine at hotels or hospitals, if the building planners haven't already eliminated them altogether.