Today is the 189th day of the year. 10 facts about the number 189.
The year 189 was a common year starting on Wednesday, known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus. In this year, Galen published his "Treatise on the various temperaments" and Pope Victor I succeeded Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, and the first to come from Africa.
The Roman numeral for 189 is CLXXXIX.
In Binary it’s 10111101.
189 Phthia is a main belt Asteroid discovered by Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters in 1878, in Clinton, New York, and named after Phthia, a region of ancient Greece.
NGC 189 is an open cluster in the Cassiopeia constellation. It was discovered by Caroline Herschel on 27 September 1783, and independently rediscovered by John Herschel on 27 October 1829.
The A189 is a road in England which runs between the A184 in Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne and the A1068 north of Ashington.
189 is a 2021 film directed by Ikuo Kamon. 189 is a phone number to call when a child needs to be saved from an abusive situation. Taiga Sakamoto works as a rookie child welfare officer dealing with those calls and has to deal with the death of a child.
London bus 189 runs from Brent Cross Shopping Centre to Marble Arch Station.
According to the Urban Slang Dictionary, 189 is when someone in basketball misses a ridiculously easy shot, and is dubbed the worst player ever. Another definition here is a group of attractive women.
In numerology, 189 energy is independent and efficient, and resonates strongly with compassion and tolerance. The energy finds opportunities to assist the well-being of humanity and takes the initiative to bring it about. It is also efficient and has a good business sense. When 189 initiates a project, things get done.
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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