The Odd Number Rule
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Buddy the dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Buddy_(dog)
Franz Ferdinand's car:
https://news.sky.com/story/a-ii-ii-18-franz-ferdinands-prophetic-number-plate-11551176
https://youtu.be/mkJ0Y8y0_is
The beginnings of World War One: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/euro-hist/world-war-i-tutorial/v/assassination-of-franz-ferdinand-by-gavrilo-princip
Galileo and the odd number rule: http://www.mcm.edu/academic/galileo/ars/arshtml/mathofmotion1.html
A GREAT book about the history of our understanding of how things move -- including some great sections about Galileo: https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Dynamics-Structure-Dynamical-Theories/dp/0195132025
Parity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_(mathematics)
centipedes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede
https://www.nature.com/articles/6800139
Colorado and its 697 sides: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/colorado-is-not-a-rectangle
Washington State '96-'97 handbook: https://web.archive.org/web/19970222053010/http://www.wiaa.com/handbook/art18.html
Washington state rules for allowed exceptions to the half-time or more enrollment requirement: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?Cite=28A.225.010