Tuesday 1 August 2023

30 August: 242

Today is the 242nd day of the year. 10 things you might not know about the number 242:

  1. The year 242 was a common year starting on Saturday, known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Gratus and Lepidus. In this year, the Roman emperor Saloninus was born.

  2. The A242 is a road in England running between Reigate and Merstham.

  3. +242 is the country code for telephoning the Republic of Congo.

  4. 242 Kriemhild is a main belt Asteroid discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa in 1884 in Vienna, and was named after Kriemhild, a mythological Germanic princess.

  5. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 was adopted unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967, in the aftermath of the Six-Day War. It formed the basis for later negotiations and led to peace treaties between IsraelEgypt and Jordan and the 1993 and 1995 agreements with the Palestinians.

  6. In London the 242 bus runs between Homerton Hospital and Aldgate Station.

  7. Plutonium-242 (242Pu or Pu-242) is one of the isotopes of Plutonium, the second longest-lived, with a half-life of 375,000 years.

  8. Area code 242 is the telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for The Bahamas.

  9. The Roman numeral for 242 is CCXLII and in Binary it’s 11110010.

  10. In numerology, 242 resonates with cooperative organisation or performance of business activities. There is companionship, pragmatism, and efficiency. 242 resonates with material acquisition and cooperation. It builds things. It is an energy primarily focused on the material.



Character birthday

Donna Shockley, a teacher at Rathbone Academy at the time of Obsidian’s Ark. She is one of the teachers who accompanies the students on the school journey to New York City.


Obsidian's Ark

Teenage years bring no end of problems. Daniel Moran's include getting hold of computer games his parents don't think he should have; a full blown crush on the beautiful Suki from Zorostan; maintaining his status as a prefect and getting his homework done. He must also keep from his parents and sister the fact that he is a superhero with a sword from another world.

Trish wonders how to get science whizz Tom to notice her; how to persuade him that the best way to stand up to the school bully is to fight back. She doesn't want her friends, especially not Tom, to know she is a genetic variant with superpowers. Little does she know that Tom has secrets of his own.


Suki struggles to make friends at school when she cannot understand everyday cultural references, and they all suspect her of being a terrorist. She, too, has a secret, but is it what her classmates assume?


When Daniel stumbles upon a plot by an alliance of supervillains to plunge the world into war, he tries to alert the established superheroes, but none of them believe him. When the Prime Minister's only daughter, Yasmin Miller, is abducted, Daniel knows the villains' plan is underway. It seems humanity's only hope may be Daniel and the ragtag bunch of teenage superheroes he recruits. Can he pull together, not only his own team, but the older heroes as well, in a bid to save the Earth from a devastating war?


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