2 February: The number 2

On the second day of the second month, ten things you might not know about the number two.

1. The glyph for the number two evolved from Brahmic script, where they expressed the number as two horizontal lines. Somewhere along the line the lines got rotated by 45 degrees and one line curved towards the other, eventually resulting in 2.
2. If a number is divisible by two, it is called an even number. You can tell if any number is even or not by looking at its last digit. If that digit is even, the whole number is.
3. 2 is the only prime number which is even.
4. 2 is the atomic number of Helium.
5. In the Bible, two of each animal went into the ark, and the Ten Commandments were written on two tablets.
6. In China, they believe that "good things come in pairs", so it's common for brand names there to begin with "double", eg "Double Happiness".
7. Words meaning "two" include: pair, couple, Twin, brace, deuce, twosome, duo, duet, dyad, couplet, yoke and distitch.
8. In games of Dice, if two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot, it's called craps or snake eyes.
9. Deuce is a word for the two of any suit in a pack of Playing cards.
10. In numerology, two is seen as a feminine number. It represents duality, balance, peace, diplomacy, harmony, emotion and nurturing. People with twos in their birth dates are said to be interested in partnerships and co-operation. They are able to see things from all angles and have an awareness of what other people need. They can be shy, sensitive, indecisive and lack self esteem, but are loyal and supportive to those they love.

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A Tale of Two Sisters

During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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