Thursday 22 June 2023

23 June: 174

Today is the 174th day of the year. 10 things you might not know about the number 174:

  1. London Bus route 174 runs from Dagenham Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence to Harold Hill, passing Dagenham Heathway Station, Rush Green, Queen's Hospital, Romford Station and Gallows Corner.

  2. The year 174 was a common year starting on Friday known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Gallus and Flaccus. In this year, Marcus Aurelius allowed his wife Empress Faustina the Younger to accompany him on his military campaigns and gave her the title Mater Castrorum ("Mother of the Camp"). There are rumours that she cheated on him with some of the soldiers but they're not substantiated, although it's also known that during the campaigns that year he was also writing a book, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, in Greek, so it's entirely possible she didn't get a lot of attention from him.

  3. 174 Phaedra is a main belt Asteroid discovered by James Craig Watson on September 2, 1877, and named after Phaedra, the tragic lovelorn queen in Greek mythology.

  4. So Long, 174th Street is a musical based on a book by Joseph Stein and lyrics and music by Stan Daniels.

  5. 174 is the atomic number of a theoretical chemical element known as Unseptquadium.

  6. The A174 is a major road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs between Thornaby-on-Tees to Whitby and is the coastal route between Teesside and Whitby.

  7. The first DNA based genome to be sequenced was the Phi X 174 bacteriophage, done by Fred Sanger and his team in 1977. The phi X 174 bacteriophage is a single-stranded DNA virus that infects the Bacteria Escherichia coli.

  8. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 is a 1995 Canadian thriller directed by Jorge Montesi. It's based on a true story about an Air Canada flight which made an emergency landing on an abandoned airfield in Manitoba. The real life flight, however, was Flight 143.

  9. There's also a Brazilian documentary about a Rio de Janiero bus hijacking called Bus 174.

  10. The number 174 in numerology resonates with creative self-expression and self-reliance. People affected by the number will be creative and like to spend time and work in creative environments. They'll be sociable, tolerant, optimistic and pragmatic.


Character birthday

Pierce Appleby, a member of the cohort of schoolboys, including Sebastian Garrett, who were groomed by their teacher, Douglas Black, to become Viper agents. Pierce is gay, and in a relationship with Black’s son, Gavin. Read about him in Killing Me Softly.


Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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