Monday, 15 September 2025

16 September: 259

Today is day 259 of 2025. 10 fun facts about the number of the day.

  1. The square of 259 is 67081. The Square root is 16.093476939431.

  2. The country code +259 was originally assigned to Zanzibar, but was never implemented.

  3. The year 259 was a common year starting on Saturday, known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Bassus. In this year, Pope Dionysius was elected as pope.

  4. 259 has 4 divisors: 17, 37, 259.

  5. 259 Aletheia is a large main-belt asteroid discovered by Christian Peters in 1886, at Litchfield Observatory, New York. It is named after the Greek goddess of truth, Aletheia, the daughter of Zeus and one of the nurses of Apollo.

  6. Of the twelve nobelium isotopes that are known to exist; the most stable is 259No.

  7. The Roman numeral for 259 is CCLIX; in binary it’s 100000011.

  8. The A259 is a road on the south coast of England passing through Hampshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent, and is the longest Zone 2 A road in Great Britain.

  9. London bus 259 runs from Edmonton Green Bus Station to King's Cross Road / Pentonville Road.

  10. In numerology, a person living under the influence of 259 will be both highly intelligent and wise and would probably make a great private detective. They work well as part of a team and are interested in the well being of mankind.


Beta

(Combat Team Series #2)


Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?

Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.

Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream. 

Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.

Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.

Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.


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