Today is the 46th day of the year. 10 fun facts about the number 46:
46 is the number of chromosomes a human being has.
This fact inspired the title of the 2003 film Code 46, directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouahabi and Samantha Morton. It is described by IMDB as “A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.” Also, 46 is the number that unlocks the Destiny spaceship on the Sci-Fi TV show Stargate Universe, for the same reason.
+46 is the code for international direct dial phone calls to Sweden.
There are 46 Mountains in the Adirondack mountain range. People who have climbed all of them are called "forty-sixers”.
The first flag of the US state of Oklahoma had a number 46 on it because it was the 46th state to join the United States.
Staying with the USA, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.
46 is the atomic number of Palladium, a chemical element with the symbol Pd. It is a rare silvery-white metal discovered in 1802 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas.
46 in Japanese can be pronounced as "yon roku", and "yoroshiku" which means "my best regards" in Japanese, so people sometimes use 46 as a greeting.
46 Hestia is a large, dark main-belt Asteroid. It is also the primary body of the Hestia clump, a group of asteroids with similar orbits.
In the Catholic version of the Old Testament, there are 46 books, the Book of Lamentations being counted as separate from the Book of Jeremiah.
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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