DDC highlights (8)
Yes, my chickadees, I know you’ve been champing at the bit for the latest Library of Congress/Dewey Decimal System subject mappings, so here, my gift to you, is a veritable smorgasbord. Tuck in. These numbers come from here, here, here, here and here.
- Rhyming number: Barbadian Canadians - 305.896972981071
- Most Victorian number: Baker Street Irregulars (Fictitious characters) - 823.914
- Hang on, it’s on the tip of my tongue…: Amnesiacs - 616.852320092
- New word for your vocabulary: Krumping - 793.3
- “A voice in my head told me to do it”: Mental illness in the Bible - 220.83622
- Monsters in the next series of Doctor Who: Active food packaging - 664.09
- Most boring number: Cavity wall insulation - 693.832
- Most boring number: Micro-drilling - 621.952
- Been there, done that: Low-income college students - 378.19826942
- Erm, the German Embassy: 21-23 Belgrave Square (London, England) - 725.17
- Most fun number: Alton Towers (England) - 791.06842514
- Most hairy number: Beards in literature - 808.803559
- Another new word for your vocabulary: Washint - 788.35
- Most pointless number: Electric engineers’ spouses - 621.3092
- Careful now: Christmas trees–Fires and fire prevention - 363.379
- Most Scottish number: Balamory (Scotland : Imaginary place) - 791.4572
- Most obscure illness number: Pseudoxanthoma elasticum - 616.5
- Really young professionals: Child psychoanalysts - 618.928917092
- Josiah Bartlet and David Palmer don’t qualify, sadly: Presidents in motion pictures - 791.43658
- Although they do do this (only one digit different): International relations on television - 791.45658
- Long tunnel: Mont Blanc Tunnel (France and Italy) - 624.1920944584
- Long number: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - 551.5520916364090511
The mind boggles why “Electric engineers’ spouses” would be a useful subject term. Still, it only takes one book about them to require the classification…
The mind boggles why “Electric engineers’ spouses” would be a useful subject term. Still, it only takes one book about them to require the classification… - I’m sure some bright spark thought of it……
Comment by Keith — July 28, 2006 @ 4:59 pm