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one of the joys of trimming!

so I got tired of all the Roman numerals!

[NOTE] If you're just joining the blog, I usually inscribe on each pot the firing number in Roman numerals. But XXXIII began to take too much scratching. So I've made a stamp!

I know you're probably wondering what other 33's you know of. Well here are a few, excluding the obvious sports figures who donned a jersey with the numeral 33, from Wikipedia...

In reference to gramophone records, 33 refers to a type of record by its revolution speed of 33⅓ revolutions per minute. 33s are also known as long playing records, or LPs. See: 78 and 45

A significant number in modern numerology, one of the master numbers along with 11 and 22

A song by The Smashing Pumpkins on their album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Also a song by Coheed and Cambria on their album, The Second Stage Turbine Blade (the songs are not related)

The title of the first episode of the new Battlestar Galactica television series

The 33 Strategies of War is a book by Robert Greene

33 is the coming of age of a hobbit in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

In French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese, the word a patient is usually asked to say when a doctor is listening to his or her lungs with a stethoscope (Trente-Trois, Trentatrè, Treizeci şi trei, Treinta y Tres and Trinta e Três)

The code for international direct-dial phone calls to France

A normal human spine has 33 vertebrae when the bones that form the coccyx are counted individually

The number printed on all Rolling Rock beer labels

The namesake of the private club, Club 33, located in Disneyland's New Orleans Square.

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry has 33 degrees.

Number of victims, including the suspect, that were all killed in the Virginia Tech Massacre, April 16, 2007.

33 were Uruguay's national Independence Heroes that liberate the country in 1825 from the Brazilian Empire, they are popularly known as "Treinta y Tres Orientales" (The Thirty-Three Orientals), one of Uruguay's national states and its capital city is named " Treinta y Tres" after them.

A religious image of the Virgin Mary from the XVIII Century is known in Uruguay as "Virgen de los Treinta y Tres" (Virgin of the Thity-Three) consecrated by Pope John Paul II in his visit to Uruguay in 1988.

2008 is the first time in 33 years that the United States has sent a satellite to explore and orbit Mercury (January 15, 2008)

Progressive Metal band Meshuggah released their album "Catch 33" in the year 2005.

In 2008, musician Teddy Geiger gives clues to fans about his new single, "march" which dropped March 3, or "33". In late May he announced 33 brand new songs that his fans could choose from to create their own album, called TG33.

'33' (three-three) is a Nigerian produced brand of beer.

N.A.S.A's Pathfinder landed on Mars, location 19.5° N by 33.3° W, on July 4, 1997.

The number of the French department Gironde

Beethoven's Op.120 consists of 33 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli

Dante wrote the Divine Comedy in 3 canticas - each consisting of 33 cantos.

United Nations symbol has 33 segments.

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