33 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

Thirty-three is:

• In reference to gramophone records, 33 refers to a type of record by its revolution speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute. 33s are also known as long playing records, or LPs. See: 78 and 45
• A significant number in modern numerology, one of the master numbers along with 11 and 22
• A song by The Smashing Pumpkins on their album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Also a song by Coheed and Cambria on their album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade (the songs are not related)
• The title of the first episode of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica television series in which the Cylons came every 33 minutes
• The jersey number of Tom Cruise's character in the 1983 film All The Right Moves
• The 33 Strategies of War is a book by Robert Greene
• In French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese, the word a patient is usually asked to say when a doctor is listening to his or her lungs with a stethoscope (Trente-Trois, Trentatrè, Treizeci şi trei, Treinta y Tres and Trinta e Três)
• +33 is the code for international direct-dial phone calls to France
• The number printed on all Rolling Rock beer labels
• '33' is a Vietnamese beer that American soldiers became familiar with during the war.
• '33' (three-three) is a Nigerian produced brand of beer.
• Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer used to be advertised as "Blended 33 to 1".
• The namesake of the private club, Club 33, located in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.
• The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry has 33 degrees.
• The number of workers trapped, and also the number of survivors of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.
• One of the symbols of Ku Klux Klan. (K is the 11th letter of the alphabet, 3 times 11 is 33, KKK)
• The 33 Orientales were a group of Uruguay's national Independence Heroes that liberate the country in 1825 from the Brazilian Empire, the name is due for the leaders all 33 Degree Masons (The Thirty-Three Orientals), one of Uruguay's national states and its capital city is named " Treinta y Tres" after them.
• A religious image of the Virgin Mary from the 18th century is known in Uruguay as "Virgen de los Treinta y Tres" (Virgin of the Thirty-Three) consecrated by Pope John Paul II in his visit to Uruguay in 1988.
• 2008 is the first time in 33 years that the United States has sent a satellite to explore and orbit Mercury (January 15, 2008)
• Progressive Metal band Meshuggah released their album "Catch 33" in the year 2005.
• In 2008, musician Teddy Geiger gives clues to fans about his new single, "march" which dropped March 3, or "33". In late May he announced 33 brand new songs that his fans could choose from to create their own album, called TG33.
• The number 33 was discovered to lead to the essential meaning of life (the Bible) in Dan Brown's 2009 novel "The Lost Symbol".
• This is also the alleged age that Alexander the Great (Alexander of Macedonia) died at, the age of 33