Miscellaneous

• The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference. 
• Chris Brogan's 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community
  
• We compared healthcare to four other industries. How many different nodes in the healthcare system are involved in a patient transaction? Healthcare is a 27 – it would take 27 bits to understand what other nodes are involved in the transaction, over 1 billion questions. - Bill Rouse
• Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, is currently building the world's most expensive house - a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai costing $2 billion.
• The name of a popular cigarette, Marlboro Blend No. 27
• The number of outs in a regulation Professional baseball game for each team.
• Ken Blackburn held this Guinness world record for 13 years (1983–1996) and had regained the record on October 8, 1998 by keeping his paper plane aloft for 27.6 seconds (indoors).
• The European Union (EU) is a political body, made up of 27 member states, the majority of which are located in continental Europe.
• May 28th, 2007 - The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that Iran must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking U.S. and Iraqi forces.
• (April 18, 2007)—Between the time he shot two people to death in a campus dormitory and opened fire two hours later killing 30 students and professors in an engineering building, Virginia Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui took time to mail a package of videos, photos and text to NBC in New York. The package, containing 27 videos, 43 still photos, one audio recording and an 1800-word manifesto, arrived by regular mail Wednesday morning.
• The ratification required by at least 36 states -- three-fourths of the 48 states then in existence -- has to be identical to the amendment passed by Congress. Benson cites federal documents affirming that for state approval to be acceptable, neither words nor punctuation can be changed. And the states may not violate their own state constitutions in ratifying the amendment. Of the 48 states, here's the story:
  
  
  • Eight states (Rhode Island, Utah, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Kentucky, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania) did not approve or ratify the amendment.
  • Texas and Louisiana were forbidden by their own state constitutions to empower the federal government to tax.
  • Vermont and Massachusetts rejected the amendment with a recorded vote count, and only later declared it passed without a recorded vote after the amendment was declared ratified by Knox.
  • Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, California and Washington violated their state constitutions in their ratification procedures.
  • Minnesota did not send any copy of its resolution to Knox, let alone a signed and sealed one, as required.
  • And Oklahoma, Georgia and Illinois made unacceptable changes in wording. (Some of the above states also made such changes, in addition to their other unacceptable procedures.)
  Take 48 states, deduct these 21, and you have proper ratification by only 27 states -- far less than the required 36.
  
  
• Barbaro (April 29, 2003 — January 29, 2007) was an American thoroughbred that decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Undefeated going into the race, Barbaro was sent off as the second choice of the betting public, at odds of 6:1, in a full field of 20 horses. Barbaro charged ahead during the last turn and straightaway of the race to win by 7 lengths. This margin of victory at the Kentucky Derby was the largest since 1946, when Triple Crown winner Assault took the Run for the Roses by eight lengths. Barbaro's win made him only the sixth undefeated horse to win the Kentucky Derby. The manner of his Derby victory led to speculation that Barbaro might be a "superhorse," the likes of which had not been seen since Affirmed and perhaps even Secretariat, arguably the greatest American thoroughbred of all time. On May 20, 2006, he ran in the Preakness Stakes as a heavy favorite, but he fractured three bones in and around the ankle of his right hind leg shortly after the start of the race. The next morning, Dr. Dean Richardson performed a fusion of the fetlock and pastern joints to stabilize it and make it strong enough for Barbaro to walk on. It was a five hour procedure and was one of the toughest surgeries he had ever performed. Richardson successfully implanted a Synthes stainless steel Locking Compression Plate and 27 screws into the colt's injured leg to span the comminuted fracture and joints. Barbaro was euthanized on January 29, 2007 around 10:30 AM EST by decision of his owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who indicated that they felt that his pain was no longer manageable.
• On March 2nd 1796 Napoleon was named commander of the army of Italy at the age of 27.
• The ancient Egyptian civilization remained an undecipherable mystery, until mid-19th Century. On September 27, 1822, the French scholar could decipher hieroglyphic symbols, through his study of Rosetta stone.
• NEXT TO ACTION COMICS #1, Detective Comics #27 is perhaps the most sought-after comic book in the world today, and there is only one reason why: Batman.
• Google's birthday is 9/27/1998.
• Jeremy Hermida (#27), second ever to hit slam in first at bat. The only other player with a grand slam in first major league at-bat was pitcher William "Frosty Bill" Duggleby, who did it for Philadelphia at home against the New York Giants in the second inning on April 21, 1898.
• In 2004, Angel's #27 baseball player Vladimir Guerrero won the American League MVP.
• The Red Sox won the MLB World Series for the first time in 86 years on October 27th, 2004, which happen to also be a full lunar eclipse.
• Ronald Reagan spent 27 years as a radio sports commentator until noticed by a Warner Bros agent who arranged for a screen test that led to a studio contract and his first movie in 1937.
• In 27 years Ronald Reagan made almost 60 films. In only one did he play a villain and that was in his last movie, The Killers (1964).
• The audiogram at age 27 is considered the baseline since it shows the best hearing threshold levels
• St. Joseph's basketball team had the longest winning streak in the nation. They also finished the regular season with a perfect record. They were also number one for the first time in their history. All that stopped though last night when everything came to end with 27 wins. - from Erik
  Season 1 of G.I. Joe contains 27 episodes. - from Erik
• Tampa Bay Buccaneers won their first championship on the 27th year of their existence. - from Erik
• The Bingo game was first played in the UK in June 1986. Bingo is played a little differently in the UK as compared to the US. There are 27 spaces on a typical bingo card with each card having 3 rows and 9 columns. Only 15 numbers are on the cards so there are several empty spaces. Each row will have five numbers and 4 spaces. There is no free space and no letters corresponding to the numbers.
• A official croquet lawn is 27 meters long.
• After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.
• BUELL WESLEY FRAZIER (FBI Statement, CE 2009, WC Vol. XXIV, p. 408):
  "As OSWALD turned to walk south toward the TSBD Building, FRAZIER
  observed that OSWALD had this package under his right arm, one end of the
  package being under his armpit and the other end apparently held with his
  right fingers." (Not almost touching the ground). NOTE: An object of
  approximately 27 inches, held as Mr. Frazier described it, by a man of
  Oswald's height, would fit almost exactly between the right hand and the
  right armpit. At approximately 35 inches, it would extend up to the middle
  of the right ear.
• The "expert" is probably John Hogue. But I have doubts about his
  interpretations regarding the 27 years third world war or that the next
  antichirist will be the third antichrist. Although Nostradamus says that the
  war of the antichrist will last for 27 years, but that simply may mean "his
  struggle" will last that long - not the actual third world war. Other
  prophecies indicate that the third world war will last for a short period,
  probably anything between 2.5 to 4 years. It is said that after the third
  world war will come the reign of the "Great Monarch" when an unprecedented
  peace will prevail. But after his death Antichrist will appear again (may be
  27 years after WW-III ?) and the "End of the World" will follow.
• On August 27th, 2001 the Australian government ordered 433 asylum seekers fleeing Saddam Hussein on a boat were sent to Nauru, a small pacific island. The name used for this unlikely idea is called "The Pacific Solution" The Afghanis on board the now infamous Norwegian cargo ship The Tampa, claimed to be fleeing not only the Taliban but centuries of religious persecution. The Australian Navy ensure refugees keep their distance People smugglers had promised them a new life in Australia, in return for thousands of dollars. But instead of a new life, Australia effectively sold them to the near-bankrupt island of Nauru, thousands of miles away into the middle of the Pacific. In return, Australia paid Nauru $30 million. Amnesty International was allowed a one-off visit to Nauru before the island was effectively "shut down". The 400 people are being held in camps with nothing to do and no visitors are allowed. If wonder how terrorists are "born", well now you know.
• In 1965:
  
  One of history's greatest engineering failures occurred without warning at 5:27 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1965, when a single electrical relay failed at the Sir Adam Beck Station No. 2 in Ontario, Canada, causing a key transmission line to disconnect. A so-called "cascade failure" quickly ensued, as dozens of major power grids overloaded and failed, ultimately plunging 30 million people in darkness.
  
  On August 14th, 2003:
  
  Mayor of NYV, Pataki reluctantly recalled one of the two major blackouts of the last 40 years in the Northeast -the 1965 power failure, which left an 80,000-square-mile stretch of the United States and Canada without electricity for as much as 27 hours. "It wasn't supposed to happen again," he said, "and it has happened again. And there have to be some tough questions asked as to why." 50 million were without power at some point.
• Acupuncture was first used as a medical treatment in 2700 BC by Chinese emperor Shen-Nung.
• The coined saying "The Whole 9 Yards" - This came from WW II fighter pilots in the Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the . 50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, the target got "the whole 9 yards."
• There are 34 "Reindeer" place names in the US; 27 are located in Alaska.
• In 1982 a British company launched the BOC Challenge single-handed race around the world. It has now been renamed AroundAlone, stating: "One person, One boat, Around the world". It is the longest race on Earth for an individual in any sport, spanning 43,000 km (27,000 miles) of the roughest and most remote oceans. The finish line literally is a world away.
• During the 1991 Gulf War, the Allies dropped more than 17,000 smart bombs and 210,000 dumb (unguided) bombs on Iraqi troops. total 227,000 bombs
• The Walt Disney company was founded in 1923, and in 1927 Walt came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse. His wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.
• The average number of peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks is 27.
• The ancient Egyptian civilization remained an undecipherable mystery, until mid-19th Century. On September 27, 1822, the French scholar could decipher hieroglyphic symbols, through his study of Rosetta stone.
• NASA's Ranger 8 hit the Moon at 2.7 deg N, 24.8 deg E in the Sea of Tranquility.
• Walt Disney World is 27,000 acres large.
• The Boeing 727's fuselage is 127 feet.
• 270 - The first compass is used in China about this time.
• Project X Sky at the Stratosphere - The vehicle travels about 27 feet over the edge and riders experience free-fall maneuvers while racing back and forth repeatedly over the edge. More info