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Superstition dictates that only a fool would start a journey, get married, make financial decisions, or take risks on this day because they are sure to end in disaster.

Symbolism
Number that cleans and purifies.

The number 13 brings the test, the suffering and the death. It symbolizes the death to the matter or to oneself and the birth to the spirit: the passage on a higher level of existence.

For the superstitious, this number brings the bad luck or the misfortune.

For the cabalist, the number 13 is the meaning of the Snake, the dragon, Satan and the murderer. But it is also for Christians the representative number of the Virgin Mary, she whose mission is to crush the head of Satan.

If you fear Friday the 13th, then batten down the hatches. This week's unlucky day is the first of three this year.

The next Friday the 13th comes in March, followed by Nov. 13. Such a triple whammy comes around only every 11 years, said Thomas Fernsler, a math specialist at the University of Delaware who has studied the number 13 for more than 20 years.

* According to Smithsonian Magazine
"fear of the #13 costs American a billion dollars per year in absenteeism, train and plane cancellations, and reduced commerce on the 13th of the month."

1. The British Navy is said to have built a ship named Friday the 13th, or the HMS Friday, which on its maiden voyage left dock on a Friday the 13th, and was never heard from again. This story seems to be a legend. The Royal Navy Museum states on its web site that this story, which has been told before, is a hoax. "There has never been a Royal Navy ship named HMS Friday - or after any other day of the week for that matter," the museum states.

Arnold Schoenberg, the composer, was a noted triskaidekaphobe (fear of 13) who died as he predicted at the age of 76 (7+6=13), on friday 13th at 13 minutes to midnight.

Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Long time space cadets are beginning to point out the growing number of similarities between events associated with the ill-fated Apollo 13 lunar landing mission and NASA's current shuttle Endeavour mission, which carries the designation STS-113.

How many of you remember when we were kids the first secret code we learned was the alphabet with a number above each letter. Starting with the letter A with the number 1 above it ending with Z which would of course represent the number 26. Take a piece of paper and lay out this code. It should look like this.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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

This code is one of the simplest codes there is. You can even do it in reverse. A being 26 until Z is 1.

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