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4 houses 4 hats 4 cats fore questions and a Wild card.... and the Furies

 
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4 houses 4 hats 4 cats fore questions and a Wild card.... and the Furies
Do NOT play...

unless au fait.

the Houses

Stern
Unyielding
Blind
Deaf


the Hats


Austere

Solemn

Tired

Old


The Cats

are away

but are White brown...tan and grey

the furies await
black humours..in they

chuckles or Biggles?

Destiny...or Fate?


Not I am away a Gambit let us play


which cat lives in which house and which cat has the cheese?


anon

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I could pile an elephant on a deck supported by two crystals and still have one elephant at rest...I could hold a golden mace above a pond, I could make a golden chain viberate through magnetism....I could elict a response to touch the core of your being...I could grow the finest roses and make a flamingo blush....I could way Knights and raze fountains..I can move stars and make the poet weep...the pussies are little furry animals


ascribed values and semantics are pussies as well...


what ever else slips anon the field of thought is at the peril of the synapse..unbridled...not used to time being a function of gratification...


Play a Game of Make believe and cry foul when it is real?


What about all those fools in boots???


hmmmss

puss in boots dont sound so bad now does it?


all depends which rhyme your seasoned to.


Lets cut the crap guys...

and still have a deck to play....or I could present an unfuscated Motto..or an unbifurcated twine...


but noooooooooooooo



we are facing a fundament of change and yet I cannot stop the acrimony....

Still we seek position?"

Surely


the dogged walk...the resolute refusal to lay down....

the walk of the fool...


cannot we accept change in a magnanamous edifying manner?

Haute coiffure is as banal as frippery and semantics.


Anyway....friends....dont fight the others friends...

that what Grace means...friends...
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Little Boy Blue
George MacDonald

Little Boy Blue lost his way in a wood—
Sing apples and cherries, roses and honey:
He said, “I would not go back if I could,
It’s all so jolly and funny!”

He sang, “This wood is all my own—
Apples and cherries, roses and honey!
Here I will sit, a king on my throne,
All so jolly and funny!”

A little snake crept out of a tree—
Apples and cherries, roses and honey:
“Lie down at my feet, little snake,” said he—
All so jolly and funny!

A little bird sang in the tree overhead—
“Apples and cherries, roses and honey:”
“Come and sing your song on my finger,” he said,
All so jolly and funny.

Up coiled the snake; the bird came down,
And sang him the song of Birdie Brown.

But little Boy Blue found it tiresome to sit
Though it was on a throne: he would walk a bit!

He took up his horn, and he blew a blast:
“Snake, you go first, and, birdie, come last.”

Waves of green snake o’er the yellow leaves went;
The snake led the way, and he knew what he meant:

But by Boy Blue’s head, with flutter and dart,
Flew Birdie Brown, her song in her heart.

Boy Blue came where apples grew fair and sweet:
“Tree, drop me an apple down at my feet.”

He came where cherries hung plump and red:
“Come to my mouth, sweet kisses,” he said.

And the boughs bow down, and the apples they dapple
The grass, too many for him to grapple;

And the cheeriest cherries, with never a miss,
Fall to his mouth, each a full-grown kiss.

He met a little brook singing a song:
“Little brook,” he said, “you are going wrong,

“You must follow me, follow me, follow, I say,
Do as I tell you, and come this way.”

And the song-singing, sing-songing forest brook
Leapt from its bed and after him took;

And the dead leaves rustled, yellow and wan,
As over their beds the water ran.

He called every bird that sat on a bough;
He called every creature with poop and prow—

I mean, with two ends, that is, nose and tail:
With legs or without, they followed full sail;

Squirrels that carried their tails like a sack,
Each his own on his little brown humpy back;

Snails that drew their own caravans,
Poking out their own eyes on the point of a lance,

And houseless slugs, white, black, and red—
Snails too lazy to build a shed;

And butterflies, flutterbys, weasels, and larks,
And owls, and shrew-mice, and harkydarks,

Cockchafers, henchafers, cockioli-birds,
Cockroaches, henroaches, cuckoos in herds;

The dappled fawns fawning, the fallow-deer following;
The swallows and flies, flying and swallowing—

All went flitting, and sailing, and flowing
After the merry boy running and blowing.

The spider forgot, and followed him spinning,
And lost all his thread from end to beginning;

The gay wasp forgot his rings and his waist—
He never had made such undignified haste!


The dragon-flies melted to mist with their hurrying;
The mole forsook his harrowing and burrowing;

The bees went buzzing, not busy but beesy,
And the midges in columns, upright and easy.

But Little Boy Blue was not content,
Calling for followers still as he went,

Blowing his horn, and beating his drum,
And crying aloud, “Come all of you, come!”

He said to the shadows, “Come after me;”
And the shadows began to flicker and flee,

And away through the wood went flattering and fluttering,
Shaking and quivering, quavering and muttering.

He said to the wind, “Come, follow; come, follow
With whistle and pipe, with rustle and hollo;”

And the wind wound round at his desire,
As if Boy had been the gold cock on the spire;

And the cock itself flew down from the church
And left the farmers all in the lurch.

Everything, everything, all and sum,
They run and they fly, they creep and they come;

The very trees they tugged at their roots,
Only their feet were too fast in their boots—

After him leaning and straining and bending,
As on through their boles the army kept wending,

Till out of the wood Boy burst on a lea,
Shouting and calling, “Come after me,”

And then they rose with a leafy hiss
And stood as if nothing had been amiss.

Little Boy Blue sat down on a stone,
And the creatures came round him every one.

He said to the clouds, “I want you there!”
And down they sank through the thin blue air.

He said to the sunset far in the west,
“Come here; I want you; ’tis my behest!”

And the sunset came and stood up on the wold,
And burned and glowed in purple and gold.

Then Little Boy Blue began to ponder:
“What’s to be done with them all, I wonder!”

He thought a while, then he said, quite low,
“What to do with you all, I am sure I don’t know!”

The clouds clodded down till dismal it grew;
The snake sneaked close; round Birdie Brown flew;

The brook, like a cobra, rose on its tail,
And the wind sank down with a what-will-you wail,

And all the creatures sat and stared;
The mole opened the eyes that he hadn’t, and glared;

And for rats and bats, and the world and his wife
Little Boy Blue was afraid of his life.

Then Birdie Brown began to sing,
And what he sang was the very thing:

“Little Boy Blue, you have brought us all hither:
Pray, are we to sit and grow old together?”

“Go away; go away,” said Little Boy Blue;
“I’m sure I don’t want you! get away—do.”

“No, no; no, no; no, yes, and no, no,”
Sang Birdie Brown, “it mustn’t be so!

“If we’ve come for no good, we can’t go away.
Give us reason for going, or here we stay!”

They covered the earth, they darkened the air,
They hovered, they sat, with a countless stare.

“If I do not give them something to do,
They will stare me up!” said Little Boy Blue.

“Oh dear! oh dear!” he began to cry,
“They’re an awful crew, and I feel so shy!”

All of a sudden he thought of a thing,
And up he stood, and spoke like a king:

“You’re the plague of my life! have done with your bother!
Off with you all: take me back to my mother!”

The sunset went back to the gates of the west.
“Follow me” sang Birdie, “I know the way best!”

“I am going the same way as fast as I can!”
Said the brook, as it sank and turned and ran.

To the wood fled the shadows, like scared black ghosts:
“If we stay, we shall all be missed from our posts!”

Said the wind, with a voice that had changed its cheer,
“I was just going there when you brought me here!”

“That’s where I live,” said the sack-backed squirrel,
And he turned his sack with a swing and a swirl.

Said the gold weather-cock, “I’m the churchwarden!”
Said the mole, “I live in the parson’s garden!”

Said they all, “If that’s where you want us to steer for,
What on earth or in air did you bring us here for?”

“You are none the worse!” said Boy. “If you won’t
Do as I tell you, why, then, don’t;

“I’ll leave you behind, and go home without you;
And it’s time I did: I begin to doubt you!”

He jumped to his feet. The snake rose on his tail,
And hissed three times, a hiss full of bale,

And shot out his tongue at Boy Blue to scare him,
And stared at him, out of his courage to stare him.

“You ugly snake,” Little Boy Blue said,
“Get out of my way, or I’ll break your head!”

The snake would not move, but glared at him glum;
Boy Blue hit him hard with the stick of his drum.

The snake fell down as if he was dead.
Little Boy Blue set his foot on his head.

“Hurrah!” cried the creatures, “hurray! hurrah!
Little Boy Blue, your will is a law!”

And away they went, marching before him,
And marshalled him home with a high cockolorum.

And Birdie Brown sang, “Twirrr twitter, twirrr twee!
In the rosiest rose-bush a rare nest!
Twirrr twitter, twirrr twitter, twirrr twitter, twirrrrr tweeeee!
In the fun he has found the earnest!”

numbers are colours for the mind

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

This guy has the best poetry...
it is really worth a perusal....

as per usual...

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3 (number) explained

3
Cardinal 3
three
Ordinal 3rd
third
Numeral system ternary
Factorization prime
Divisors 1, 3
Roman numeral III
Roman numeral (Unicode) Ⅲ, ⅲ
Arabic ٣
Amharic ፫
Bengali ৩
Chinese numeral 三
Devanāgarī ३
Hebrew ג (Gimel)
Khmer ៣
Thai ๓
prefixes tri- (from Greek)tre-/ter- (from Latin)
Binary 11
Octal 3
Duodecimal 3
Hexadecimal 3

3 (three) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4.
In mathematics

Three is the first odd prime number, and the second smallest prime. It is both the first Fermat prime (22º + 1) and the first Mersenne prime (2² - 1), as well as the first lucky prime. However, it's the second Sophie Germain prime, the second Mersenne prime exponent, the second factorial prime (2! + 1), the second Lucas prime, the second Stern prime.

Three is the first unique prime due to the properties of its reciprocal.

Three is the third Heegner number.

Three is the second triangular number and it is the only prime triangular number. Three is the only prime which is one less than a perfect square. Any other number which is n² - 1 for some integer n is not prime, since it is (n - 1)(n + 1). This is true for 3 as well, but in its case one of the factors is 1.

Three non-collinear points determine a plane and a circle.

Three is the fourth Fibonacci number and the third that is unique. In the Perrin sequence, however, 3 is both the zeroth and third Perrin numbers.

Three is the fourth open meandric number.

Vulgar fractions with 3 in the denominator have a single digit repeating sequences in their decimal expansions, (.000..., .333..., .666...)

A natural number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits in base 10 is divisible by 3. For example, the number 21 is divisible by three (3 times 7) and the sum of its digits is 2 + 1 = 3. Because of this, the reverse of any number that is divisible by three (or indeed, any permutation of its digits) is also divisible by three. For instance, 1368 and its reverse 8631 are both divisible by three (and so are 1386, 3168, 3186, 3618, etc..). See also Divisibility rule.

A triangle is the most durable shape possible, the only "perfect" figure which if all endpoints have hinges will never change its shape unless the sides themselves are bent.

3 is the only integer between e and π.

Three of the five regular polyhedra have triangular faces -- the tetrahedron, the octahedron, and the icosahedron. Also, three of the five regular polyhedra have vertices where three faces meet -- the tetrahedron, the hexahedron (cube), and the dodecahedron. Furthermore, only three different types of polygons comprise the faces of the five regular polyhedra -- the triangle, the quadrilateral, and the pentagon.

There are only three distinct 4×4 panmagic squares.

Only three tetrahedral numbers are also perfect squares.
In numeral systems

It is frequently noted by historians of numbers that early counting systems often relied on the three-patterned concept of "One- Two- Many" to describe counting limits.

In other words, in their own language equivalent way, early peoples had a word to describe the quantities of one and two, but any quantity beyond this point was

simply denoted as "Many". As an extension to this insight, it can also be noted that early counting systems appear to have had limits at the numerals 2, 3, and 4. References

to counting limits beyond these three indices do not appear to prevail as consistently in the historical record.
Base Numeral system
2 binary 11
3 ternary 10
over 3 (decimal, hexadecimal) 3
List of basic calculations
Multiplication 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1​9 20 21 22 23 24 25 50 100 1000

3 x x
3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 48 51 54 57 60 6​3 66 69 72 75 150 300 3000
Division 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

3 ÷ x
3 1.5 1 0.75 0.6 0.5

0.\overline{4}2857\overline{1}
0.375

0.\overline{3}
0.3

0.\overline{2}\overline{7}
0.25

0.\overline{2}3076\overline{9}


0.2\overline{1}4285\overline{7}
0.2

x ÷ 3


0.\overline{3}


0.\overline{6}
1

1.\overline{3}


1.\overline{6}
2

2.\overline{3}


2.\overline{6}
3

3.\overline{3}


3.\overline{6}
4

4.\overline{3}


4.\overline{6}
5
Exponentiation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

3x
3 9 27 81 243 729 2187 6561 19683 59049 177147 531441 15943​23

x3
1 8 27 64 125 216 343 512 729 1000 1331 1728 2197
Evolution of the glyph

Three is often the largest number written with as many lines as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but to this day 3 is written as three lines in Roman and Chinese numerals. This was the way the Brahmin Indians wrote it, and the Gupta made the three lines more curved. The Nagari started rotating the lines clockwise and ending each line with a slight downward stroke on the right. Eventually they made these strokes connect with the lines below, and evolved it to a character that looks very much like a modern 3 with an extra stroke at the bottom. It was the Western Ghubar Arabs who finally eliminated the extra stroke and created our modern 3. (The "extra" stroke, however, was very important to the Eastern Arabs, and they made it much larger, while rotating the strokes above to lie along a horizontal axis, and to this day Eastern Arabs write a 3 that looks like a mirrored 7 with ridges on its top line):

٣[1]

While the shape of the 3 character has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . In some French text-figure typefaces, though, it has an ascender instead of a descender. A common variant of the digit 3 has a flat top, similar to the character ezh, sometimes used to prevent people from falsifying a 3 into an 8.
In science
3-patterned general formula of the Scientific Method'1. The observation of the phenomena and the recording of facts.
2. The formulation of physical laws from the generalization of the phenomena.
3. The development of a theory that is used to predict new phenomena.
Plants and Animals

* Triceratops: Cretaceous period dinosaur with three horns on its head.
* Shamrock: refers to one of several trifoliate (three-leaved) plants of the Leguminosae family which includes the clover.
* 3-bodied general description of insects: Head~ Thorax~ Abdomen.
* Trilobite: hard-bodied invertebrate marine arthropod of the Paleozoic era with three lobes.
* Monocotyledon: A monocot's flower is often trimerous, with the flower parts in threes or in multiples of three (typically three, six, or nine petals.)

Astronomy

* There are three types of galaxies.
* Globular Cluster M3 (also known as Messier Object 3 or NGC 5272) is a globular cluster in the Canes Venatici constellation.
* The Roman numeral III stands for giant star in the Yerkes spectral classification scheme.
* The Roman numeral III (usually) stands for the third-discovered satellite of a planet or minor planet (e.g. Pluto III)
* In the constellation Orion, his belt is made up of 3 stars in a row.
* Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System.

Chemistry

* Three is the atomic number of lithium (Lithium is also the 33rd most abundant element on Earth).
* Atoms consist of three constituents: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
* 3 types of molecular bond: Covalent~ Ionic~ Polar Covalent (Dative or Coordinate)
* 3 isomerism types: Structural (Ethyl alcohol) ~ Geometric (Maleic acid) ~ Optical (L-Lactic acid)
* 3 hydrocarbon chain types: Straight (Propane)~ Branched (Isobutane)~ Circular (Cyclopropane)
* 3 basic chemical reaction substances: Acids~ Bases~ Salts

Physiology

* 3 distinct Cytoskeleton components: Microtubules~ Intermediate Filament~ Actin Filaments
* 3 primary cellular energy molecules: AMP~ ADP~ ATP
* 3 main fatty acid categories: Saturated~ Monounsaturated~ Polyunsaturated
* 3 substances metabolized for energy needs: Carbohydrates~ Fats~ Proteins
* Triglycerides are the main storage forms of fatty acids.

Physics

* There are three generations of fundamental leptons (electron, muon, tauon and their neutrinos) and three groups of flavours of quarks (up-down, charmed-strange, top-bottom).
* A neutron consists of three quarks: two down quarks and one up quark.
* We perceive our universe to have three spatial dimensions.
* White light is composed of the mixture of the three additive primary hues: red, green, and blue.
* Three is the minimum and maximum, a singular optimum, just sufficient to geometrically realize a topologically three-shell-substructured toriodal superstring with three different spins (no vacuum!) and enable its specific spin functionality (three different spin functionalities with three different spin states each). The main aspect of this functionality is quintessence in the state of supersymmetry, breaking of supersymmetry (weak interaction, change of flavor) and breaking of color supersymmetry of quarks with angular spins -1 0 +1 (green, red, blue).
* Three is the smallest number that, in a physical realization, on breaking of symmetry allows the emergence of two additional functionalities different from the one of a central state. These either can be symmetric as in -3 (±0) +3 (electron, two supersymmetric superstrings (left/right-handed, no matter particles, dark), and the positron) or asymmetric as in -1 (-0) +2 (quarks) or -2 (+0) +1 (anti quarks). This means, breaking of a symmetry also can result in one of two different asymmetric states. In this case supersymmetry globally is conserved on the average by the properties of three quarks (enforced quark confinement). Multiplication of these angular spins by 1/3 gives the three particle charges, negative or positive are defined by the direction of angular spin.
* Changes of spin, appearing as changes of flavor, only can be by three multiples of a fundamental angular quantum of spin causing an 1/3 elementary charge e. The down quark only can change its spin from -1 to +2, the up-quark. A supersymmetric superstring can break supersymmetry from -0 to -3 (electron) or from +0 to +3 (positron). The electron anti-neutrino (+3) and electron neutrino (-3)represent three quanta of fermionic spin within the spacetime metric (no superstrings/particles), conserving supersymmetry globally.
* Nature defines the state of supersymmetry as ±0 (left- and right-handed). This allows additional variations with respect to the breaking of supersymmetry involving the number three. The whole spectrum of possibilities based on the number three thus is duplicated for matter and antimatter.
* Three is realized as 0 1 2 in the number of exponents defining the basic kinds of spin. These are ½*2^0 ħ (fermionic), ½*2^1 ħ (bosonic), ½*2^2 ħ (gravitational). The bosonic state is the symmetric state.
* Three non-gravitational forces actively are generated by three different superstring spin functionalities, while gravity is a passive reaction of spacetime due to the presence of superstrings with broken supersymmetry. It on principle is different.
* Three represents an optimum of economy in a physical geometrical realization and a maximum of functionality at the same time. This limits the otherwise nearly infinite number of degrees of freedom by a defined geometry with a specific functionality to exactly the ones needed to generate the fundamental basis for the expression of the 'Everything'.
* The number three is shown to be represented by different possible spin states in the regime from -3 to +3, that is by negative and positive integer numbers, including a -0 and +0, in contrast to mathematics where 0 is an integer number without sign. Due to geometrically defined quanta of spin the superstring shows a physical realization of integer numbers between -3 and +3. This answers Roger Penrose's question of the physical meaning of integer numbers (Road to Reality, p. 65) and their relevance in the physical world.
* Three different states of string tension exist. The whole geometry and functionality is the same with exception of the orthogonal magnetic flux component causing gravo-magnetic mass. Thus three generations of particles can exist solely according to energetic conditions. The basic relevance of the number three for the superstring in no way is touched.

Computer Science

* Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, which state:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Psychology

* In his later work, Freud proposed that the psyche was divided into three parts: Ego, super-ego, and id. Freud discussed this structural model of the mind in the 1920 essay Beyond the Pleasure Principle, and fully elaborated it in The Ego and The Id (1923), where he developed it as an alternative to his previous topographic schema (conscious, unconscious, preconscious).

Geology

* Three basic planes: Above- Surfaced- Beneath
* Three basic Earth divisions: Core- Mantle- Crust.
* Three basic rock formations: Igneous- Metamorphic- Sedimentary.
* In tectonic plate theory, the pacific plate's site can be said to be due to the "fusion" (engulfing) of 3 other plates: Izanagi plate~ Phoenix plate~ Kula plate.
* 3 types of earthquake waves: P (Primary) waves~ S (Secondary) waves~ L/R (Love & Rayleigh) waves.
* 3 types of volcanoes: Cinder cones~ Shield volcano~ Composite volcano.

Biology (specific and general)

* RNA has a triplet codon system.
* DNA has a triplet codon system.
* Proteins can have a single, double, or tertiary structure, with a composite of these called the quaternary.
* Human chromosomes can present trisomy.
* 3 basic life domains: Archaea- Bacteria- and Eucaryota
* 3 phyla of Archaebacteria that are found mainly in extreme habitats where little

else can survive: Methanogens~ Halophiles~ Thermoacidophiles.

* 3 mammalian Germ layers: Endoderm- Mesoderm- Ectoderm
* 3 principal stages of glucose respiration: Glycolysis~ Krebs cycle~ Electron transport chain.

Anthropology

3 distinct species of the genus Homo:

[1] Homo habilis "capable man"
[2] Homo erectus "upright man"

[3] Homo sapiens "wise man"

3 distinct species of the genus Paranthropus:
[1] Paranthropus robustus

[2] Paranthropus boisei
[3] Paranthropus aethiopicus

3 Proconsul species:

[1] Proconsul africanus
[2] Proconsul major

[3] Proconsul nyanzae

3 Pan troglodyte sub-species:
[1] Pan Troglodytes Schweinfurthii- (Eastern Common Chimpanzee)

[2] Pan Troglodytes Troglodytes- (Central Common Chimp)
[3] Pan Troglodytes Verus- (Western Common Chimp)

3 types of primates:

[1] Prosimians
[2] Monkeys (old & new world)

[3] Apes (lesser & greater apes, as well as humans)

3 social group types of the Great Apes:
[1] Orangutans (Solitary)

[2] Gorillas (Harems)
[3] Common Chimps (Live in territories defended by related males)

Three traditional families of hominoid:

1. Hylobatidae- include the so-called lesser apes of Asia, the gibbons and siamangs.
2. Hominidae- include living humans and typically fossil apes that possess a suite of characteristics such as bipedalism, reduced canine size, and increasing brain size such as the australopithecines.

3. Pongidae- include the remaining African great apes including gorillas, chimpanzees, and the Asian orangutan.

Present day humans have been referred to as the 3rd chimpanzee.
History

* Christian Jürgensen Thomsen proposed the three-age system to divide prehistory in the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.
* 3rd Reich of Germany: Adolf Hitler's Empire
* 3rd Rome: Old name for Russia
* 3rd Estate: French Revolution
* 3rd Way: Mussolini's social movement
* 3rd Wave: journalistic name given to Newt Gingrich's social movement (U.S.)
* Third Communist International was founded in 1919 by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (He died after a 3rd stroke).
* Three most important events that led up to, and caused the American Revolution: Boston Massacre- Boston Tea Party~ Stamp Act.

In religion and mythology

* Georges Dumezil developed the idea of a Tripartite Ideology (Trifunctional Hypothesis) with respect to the Indo-European peoples consisting of three class divisions: Priestly~ Warrior~ Farmers/Craftsmen.
* 3 Indian Gods: Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara(Shiva)
* 3 Greek gods: Zeus~ Poseidon~ Hades (Heaven~ Earth~ Underworld)
* 3 Roman gods: Jupiter~ Neptune~ Pluto (Heaven~ Earth~ Underworld)
* 3 sons of Zeus & Europa: Minos~ Rhadamanthus~ Sarpedon
* 3 forms of Odin in Eddic Mythology: Har~ Jafnhar~ Thridi
* 3 mysterious figures amongst Norse gods: Hoenir~ Lodurr~ Mimir
* Ancient Egypt Theban Triad: Amun~ Mut~ and their son Khans
* 3 ancient Egypt central religious figures: Horus~ Isis~ Osiris
* 3-pronged trident: Poseidon
* 3 items of manufacturer commonly attributed to Vulcan, God of fire and volcanoes: Art~ Arms~ Armor for gods and heroes.
* The Maya believed 3 stars in the Orion Constellation (Alnitak~ Saiph~ Rigel) were arranged by the gods as a triangular hearth, enclosing the smoke of the fire creation - the nebula.
* 3 Greek Fates (Moirai, Moires): Clotho~ Lachesis~ Atropos (sometimes referred to as the 3 spinners).
* 3 Roman Fates: Decima~ Nona (goddesses of birth)~ Morta (goddess of death)
* 3 Roman Graces- (in Greek mythology called the Charities and according to the Spartans, Cleta was the third): Aglaia~ Euphrosyne~ Thalia.
* 3 parts to a Chimera: Head of a lion~ Body of a goat~ Tail of a snake
* 3 monstrous offspring by Loki and Angroboda: Fenrir~ Hel~ Jormungund
* 3 hags possessing immense power in Norse Myth: Urdr~ Verdandi~ Skuld
* 3-faced goddess in Greek Mythology: Hecate
* 3 Gorgons-(snake-haired sisters in Greek mythology): Stheno, Euryale, Medusa are sometimes depicted as having wings of gold, brazen claws, and the tusks of boars. Medusa is the only one of the gorgons that is mortal.
* 3 different beings made up the different qualities of death according to ancient Greek belief: Thantos (male)~ Ker (female)~ Gorgo (female).
* 3 Roman Furies (female personifications of vengeance) that were called the Erinyes (the Angry Ones) or Eumenides by the Ancient Greeks (Orestes called them the Solemn Ones, or the Kindly Ones): Alecto ("unceasing")~ Megaera ("grudging")~ Tisiphone ("avenging murder").
* 3-headed dog that guarded the gate to Hades in Greek Mythology: Cerberus
* 3 ancient Greek Harpies: Aello, Ocypete, and Celaeno.

In Buddhism

* The Triple Gem - Buddha , Dhamma (Buddha's teaching) and Sangha (the preachers of Dhamma)
* The Triple Bodhi (ways to understand the end of birth)- Budhu, Pasebudhu, Mahaarahath

Abrahamic religions

* There are three main Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
* The Holy Trinity in Christian doctrine (or trinity in general), is God both as a single being and three persons: the Father, the Son and the Spirit. This is also known as Tripartite division.
* Jesus spread Christianity for 3 years.
* Jesus rose from the dead on the third day after his death.
* Jesus predicted that Peter would deny him three times.
* The Wise Men who visited Jesus after His birth left Him three gifts.
* In Muslim devotional rites, certain formulas are repeated three times, and others thirty-three times
* A devout Muslim tries to make a pilgrimage to all three holy cities in Islam: Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem
* King Solomon states in Ecclesiastes 4:12: "A three-ply cord is not easily severed." Examples of this concept of three-ness in Judaism are:
o The three Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
o The three pilgrim festivals (Sheloshet HaRegalim): Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot
o The three leaders of the Jewish nation during their 40 years of wandering in the desert: Moses, Aaron, and Miriam
o The Tanakh is comprised of 3 sections: Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim
o There are 3 daily prayer services: Shacharit, Mincha, and Maariv
o There are three divisions of Jews: Kohen, Levi, and Israel
o Shimon Hatzaddik taught: "On three things the world stands: On Torah, on prayer, and on acts of kindness" (Pirkei Avoth 1:2). Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel taught: "The world continues to exist because of three things: justice, truth, and peace" (ibid. 1:18)
* The three Theological virtues referred to 1 Corinthians 13.
* In Roman Catholicism, three groups of martyrs, collectively known as Faith, Hope, and Charity (named after the Theological Virtues).
* Heaven, Hell and Purgatory (or Limbo).

Other religions

* The Wiccan Rule of Three.
* The Triple Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone; the three fates.
* In Taoism, the Three Pure Ones.
* The three Gunas underlie action, in the Vedic system of knowledge. There is also the concept of Trimurti in Hindu tradition. The Buddha has three bodies. The three Vedas are called trayi i.e triad. Lord Shiva is Trinetra-Three-eyed. The confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and hidden Sarasvati is the famous Triveni-confluence of three rivers. Buddhism's three refuges are Trisharana- Buddhan sharanam gacchami, Dhammam sharanam gacchami, Sangham sharanam gacchami.
* In Greek mythology, the Three Graces or Charites. Also the number of heads of Cerberus, the monstrous dog that guards the gate to Hades
* Various Triple deities.

In esoteric tradition

* The Theosophical Society has three conditions of membership.
* Gurdjieff's Three Centers and the Law of Three.
* Aleister Crowley's model of the three schools of magick (Black, White and Yellow) from his Magick Without Tears.
* Feri Tradition teaches of the existence of three souls in each individual person.

In fictional religion

* In The Legend of Zelda a divine relic, The Triforce: Wisdom, Power, and Courage, are represented by 3 Golden triangles.

In philosophy

* Plato split the soul into three parts: the appetitive, the spirited, and the rational
* Hegel's dialectic of Thesis + Antithesis = Synthesis creates three-ness from two-ness.
* The three Doshas (weaknesses) and their antidotes are the basis of Ayurvedic medicine in India.
* Charles Sanders Peirce was a trichotomist and stipulated, among other things, a triadic relation of interpretant, representamen, and object to explain the phenomenon of semeiosis.

3-patterned Philosophical DistinctionsSt. Augustine's Philosophy: Memory~ Understanding~ Will
Aquinas's 3 transcendentals of being: Unity~ Truth~ Goodness
Aquinas's 3 requisites for the beautiful: Wholeness or perfection~ Harmony or due proportion~ Radiance
Aquinas's 3 logical faculties (based in Aristotle) Conception~ Judgment~ Reasoning
Aquinas's 3 causal principles (based in Aristotle) Agent~ Patient~ Act
Comte's Philosophy: Great Being~ Great Medium~ Great Fetish
Hegel's 3 Spirits: Subjective Spirit~ Objective Spirit~ Absolute Spirit
Plotinu's Philosophy: One~ One Many~ One and Many
Aristotle's 3 Unities: Unity of Action~ Unity of Time~ Unity of Place
Sir F. Bacon's 3 Tables: Presence~ Absence~ Degree
Thomas Hobbes's 3 Fields: Physics~ Moral Philosophy~ Civil Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques: Pure Reason~ Practical Reason~ Judgment
Averroes's 3 Commentaries: Little~ Middle~ Great
Karl Marx's 3 isms: Communism~ Socialism~ Capitalism
Woodrow Wilson's 3 isms: Colonialism~ Racism~ Anti-Communism
Hippocrates's Mind Disorders: Mania~ Melancholia~ Phrenitis
Emile Durkeim's 3 Suicides: Egoistic~ Altruistic~ Anomic
D. Liesman's 3 Social Characters: Tradition-directed~ Inner-directed~ Other-directed
Erich Fromm's 3 Symbols: The Conventional~ The Accidental~ The Universal
Pythagoras's "fusion" idea: Monarchy~ Oligarchy~ Democracy (into harmonic whole)
M.L. King Jr.'s "Middle Road": Acquiescence~ Nonviolence~ Violence
Kierkegaard's 3 Stages: Aesthetic~ Ethical~ Religious
Husserl's 3 Reductions: Phenomenological~ Eidetic~ Religious
St. Augustine's 3 Laws: Divine Law~ Natural Law~ Temporal, or positive Law
Witness Stand truths: The Truth~ The whole Truth~ Nothing but the Truth
Titus Carus's 3 Ages: Stone Age~ Bronze Age~ Iron Age
Feuerbach's 3 Thoughts: God, 1st Thought~ Reason, 2nd~ Man, 3rd
Magnus's 3 Universals: Ante Rem~ In Rem~ Post Rem
Max Weber's 3 Authorities: Traditional~ Charismatic~ Legal-rational
F. de Sausure's 3 "Signs": Sign~ Signified~ Signifier
Charles Peirce's 3 semiotic elements Sign~ Object~ Interpretant
Charles Pierce's 3 categories: Quality of feeling~ Reaction/resistance~ Representation
Charles Peirce's 3 universes of experience: Ideas~ Brute fact~ Habit (habit-taking)
Charles Peirce's 3 normatives: The good (esthetic)~ The right (ethical)~ The true (logical)
Charles Peirce's 3 grades of conceptual clearness By familiarity~ Of definition's parts~ Of conceivable practical consequences
Charles Peirce's 3 modes of evolution: Fortuitous variation~ Mechanical necessity~ Creative love
John Keynes's 3 Eras: Scarcity~ Abundance~ Stabilization
George Mead's 3 Distinctions: Self~ I~ Me
Thrasher's 3-group Gangs: Inner Circle~ Rank & File~ Fringers
Abe Lincoln's 3-For-All: Of the People~ By the People~ For the People
Jesus Christ's 3 Praises: In the name of the Father~ Son~ Holy Spirit
Samuel Clemmons' (Mark Twain) 3 lies: Lies~ Damned Lies~ Statistics
J.W.S. Pringle's 3 intellectual problems: Religious & Ethical~ Practical~ Scientific
J. Bruner's 3 cognitive processing modes: Enactive~ Iconic~ Symbolic
Wilhelm Wundt's 3 mind elements: Sensations~ Images~ Feelings
Robert Sternberg's 3 love components: Passion~ Intimacy~ Commitment
Sternberg's Triarchic Intelligence: Analytic~ Creative~ Practica
Paul D. Maclean's Triune Brain: R-System (Reptilian)~ Limbic System~ Neocortex
3-monkey Philosophy: Hear no Evil~ See no Evil~ Speak no Evil
J.A. Fodor's mind Taxonomy: Central Processes~ Input Processes~ Transducers
Plato's Tripartite soul: Rational~ Libidinous~ Spirited (various animal qualities)
Hjalmar Wennerberg's philosophy orders: Phenomenology~ Normative Science~ Metaphysics
W.H. Sheldon's body types: Endomorph~ Mesomorph~ Ectomorph
Ernst Kretschmer's body types: Pyknic~ Asthenic~ Athletic
Aristotle's 3 in 1 idea: Mind~ Self-knowledge~ Self-love
K.J.W. Craik's 3 reasoning processes: Translation~ Reasoning~ Retranslation
Galton's 3 genius traits: Intellect~ Zeal~ Power of working
Gregor Mendel "laws": Independent Unit Characters~ Segregation~ Dominance
Darwinian essentials of Evolution: Variation~ Heredity~ Struggle for existence
In Education

* 3 R's: Reading~ 'Riting~ 'Rithmetic
* 3 divisions: Elementary (Grade) School~ Middle (Jr. High or Intermediate) School~ High (Sr. High) School
* 3 levels: Primary (~Elementary) Education~ Secondary (~Jr. + Sr. High) Education~ Tertiary (College, University, Polytechnical Institute, TAFE) Education
* 3 University degrees: Bachelor's~ Master's- Ph.D
* 3 University distinctions: Cum Laude~ Magna Cum Laude~ Suma Cum Laude
* 3 testing formats: True/False~ Multiple Choice~ Essay
* 3 levels to grade formulas: A+ (A plus)~ A (A neutral)~ A- (A minus)
* 3 good grade divisions: A~ B~ C
* 3 rings of the school bell return children to class after a fire drill.
* 3 ring notebooks are one standard of usage for holding looseleaf notebook paper (2 is another in lever-arch).
* 3-number combination locks are a standard usage for lockers.

In politics

* Plato split his utopian city into three populations: laborers, guardians (warriors), and philosophers (rulers)
* Several polities have been ruled by three persons in a triumvirate or a troika.
* As well, medieval theory divided society in laboratores (peasants), bellatores (noble warriors) and oratores (clergy). An earlier division had only the potentes ("powerful", warriors) and the powerless.

* In the Ancient Regime, the estates of the realm (e.g. the French Estates General) were divided in a branch for aristocracy, another for the Catholic hierarchy and the Third Estate for rich peasants and bourgeoisie. The triumph of the Third Estate is the French Revolution.
* By analogy to the Third Estate, the Third World (poor countries or non-aligned countries) was defined as different from the First World (led by the United States) and the Second World (led by the Soviet Union).
* The "third way" is a political term applied to a variety of "third choice" options that some offer as an alternative to dichotomous situations which may otherwise appear polarized.
* After the fall of Constantinople, the Tsars considered Moscow as the Third Rome.
* Also Nazism considered Nazi Germany the Third Reich after the Holy Roman Empire and the Prussian Empire.
* There are three branches to the US government; executive, legislative, and judicial.
* Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave considers that the late twentieth century saw the beginning of a third wave of change in post-industrial civilization after the Neolithic and the Industrial Revolution.
* The Third International supported Leninism.
* Cenocracy is ? [link to everything.explained.at]

As a lucky or unlucky number

Three (三, formal writing: 叁, pinyin san1, Cantonese: saam1) is considered a good number in Chinese culture because it sounds like the word "alive" (生 pinyin sheng1, Cantonese: saang1), compared to four (四, pinyin: si4, Cantonese: sei3) that sounds like the word "death" (死 pinyin si3, Cantonese: sei2).

Counting to three is common in situations where a group of people wish to perform an action in synchrony: Now, on the count of three, everybody pull! Assuming the counter is proceeding at a uniform rate, the first two counts are necessary to establish the rate, but then everyone can predict when "three" will come based on "one" and "two"; this is likely why three is used instead of some other number.

In Vietnam, it is bad luck to take a photo with three people in it.

Luck, especially bad luck, is often said to "come in threes".

Some cultures in history have a place for people of third gender such as in Thailand.

It is often believed that people die in threes. This only includes people in your personal sphere (ie. directly impact on your day-to-day life).

There is a superstition that states it is unlucky to take a third light, that is, to be the third person to light a cigarette from the same match or lighter. This is commonly believed to date from the trenches of the First World War when a sniper might see the first light, take aim on the second and fire on the third.

3 strikes and you're out.

3rd time's a charm.

In music

* In music, the Roman numeral iii is the mediant scale degree, chord, or diatonic function, when distinguished III = major and iii = minor.
* Three is the number of performers in a trio. mainly attributed to the idea that there are three basic vocal ranges for singers: Soprano, Alto, and Bass for women, Alto, Tenor, and Bass for men. Sometimes, however, a trio can maintain the same vocal range (i.e. The Three Tenors and The Three Irish Tenors.)
* There are 3 notes in a triad, the most important and basic form of any chord.
* Any diatonic chord progression's key signature is made obvious with any 3 different triads, as opposed to potential key ambiguities with any 2 chords.
* The tritone, which divides the octave into 3 equally spaced notes (root, tritone, octave) is the rarest interval of any mode, only occurring semantically twice, and physically once. It is the only interval that, when inverted, remains unchanged functionally and harmonically.
* The 3/4 time signature of Western classical music tradition (Three beats to a measure, with the quarter note comprising the beat.) is said to represent the Holy Trinity of Christian doctrine, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is for this reason that it is often utilized in compositions which were written for use in ecclesiastical rites, or that are inspired by scriptural/spiritual themes and texts.
* In a standard jazz combo there are 3 necessary parts: bass, percussion, and chord maker.
* 3 is The Magic Number according to De La Soul.

In Geography

* Several cities are known as Tripoli from Greek for "three cities".
* Sicilia was known as Trinacria for its triangle-shape.
* Three Mile Island is known for a nuclear accident.



In literature

* 3 is the number of words or phrases in a Tripartite motto.
* 3 is the number of novels or films in a trilogy and the number of interconnected works of art in a triptych.
* In good writing, the tricolon is often used for rhetorical effect.
* Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy has three parts each of thirty-three cantos (plus one introductory canto totaling 100). It was written in terza rima, a combination of tercets. All of this is an allusion to the Christian Trinity.
* The number three recurs several times in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and also in The Silmarillion. Three Rings of Power were given to the Elves. There are three Silmarils. The unions of the Eldar (Elves) and the Edain (Men) were three in number: Beren and Lúthien, Tuor and Idril, and (of course) Aragorn and Arwen.
* Three Blind Mice is a children's nursery rhyme and musical round.
* The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, and is part of a trilogy.
* The Three Sisters is a play by Anton Chekhov.


Three is:

* Three are the values of French Revolution (liberty, equality, fraternity) , and the colors of French flag.
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Italian zefiro already meant "west wind" from Latin and Greek zephyrus; this may have influenced the spelling when transcribing Arabic şifr.[3] The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c.1170-1250), who grew up in Arab North Africa and is credited with introducing the Hindu decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum. This became zefiro in Italian, which was contracted to zero in Venetian, giving the modern English word.

As the Hindu decimal zero and its new mathematics spread from the Arab world to Europe in the Middle Ages, words derived from sifr and zephyrus came to refer to calculation, as well as to privileged knowledge and secret codes. According to Ifrah, "in thirteenth-century Paris, a 'worthless fellow' was called a "... cifre en algorisme", i.e., an "arithmetical nothing"."[3] (Algorithm is also a borrowing from the Arabic, in this case from the name of the 9th century mathematician al-Khwarizmi.) From şifr also came French chiffre = "digit", "figure", "number", chiffrer = "to calculate or compute", chiffré= "encrypted". Today, the word in Arabic is still sifr, and cognates of sifr are common throughout the languages of Europe and southwest Asia.
History

By the mid 2nd millennium BC, the Babylonians had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system. The lack of a positional value (or zero) was indicated by a space between sexagesimal numerals. By 300 BC a punctuation symbol (two slanted wedges) was co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system. In a tablet unearthed at Kish (dating from perhaps as far back as 700 BC), the scribe Bêl-bân-aplu wrote his zeroes with three hooks, rather than two slanted wedges.[4]

The Babylonian placeholder was not a true zero because it was not used alone. Nor was it used at the end of a number. Thus numbers like 2 and 120 (2×60), 3 and 180 (3×60), 4 and 240 (4×60), et al., looked the same because the larger numbers lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder. Only context could differentiate them.
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could you summarize please? 3 sentences or so... what is the point?
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could you summarize please? 3 sentences or so... what is the point?
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the point is at the end of a conical shape dude..





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