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DDC highlights (8) Jul 28

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…

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    Keith 

    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……