Monday, May 27th, 2019

brightknightie: Stonetree and Norma looking at a CRT monitor (Computer)
Movie titles
  • 10 Years (2011 movie about a high-school reunion) (Wikipedia)
  • Ten Years (2015 movie of 5 short stories set in 2025 Hong Kong) (Wikipedia)
Book titles
  • Ten Years Later (1847 novel by Alexandre Dumas, a sequel to The Three Musketeers) (Wikipedia)
  • 10th Anniversary (novel in the "Women's Murder Club" series by James Patterson) (Wikipedia)
Song titles
  • "The Last Ten Years (Superman)" (2006 song by Kenny Rogers) (lyrics)
  • "Ten Years" (1997 song by Paul Simon) (lyrics)
  • "Ten Years Gone" (1975 song by Led Zepplin) (lyrics)
  • "Ten Years" (1960 song by Buddy Williams) (lyrics)
  • "Ten Years" (1958 song by Jack Clement) (lyrics)
"Decennial"
  • "Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences" = Canadian geoscience association (Wikipedia)
  • "Decennial Liability" = structure-collapse coverage required of contractors in some countries (Wikipedia)
  • "Decennial pattern" = 10-year stock market cycle theory first published in 1939 (CMT)
  • "Decennial Peak" = mountain in Antarctica (Wikipedia)
  • "Decennial Air Cruise" = 1933 mass transatlantic flight / publicity stunt (Wikipedia)
Things that lasted 10 years (or so):
  • Alexander the Great's empire (Listverse)
  • Queen Anne's War (1702-1713) (Wikipedia) [Hey, Vaqueras!]
  • Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001) (Wikipedia)
  • Julia Child's work on her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Adobe)
  • original run of Maus by Art Spiegelman (Adobe)
  • original run of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (Wikipedia)
  • construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (Adobe)
  • "it takes ten years to sharpen a sword" (reportedly, Chinese proverb)
Things that happen once every 10 years (or so):
  • US Census (Wikipedia)
  • from 1871-1956, Census in Canada (now every 5th year) (Wikipedia)
  • Death Valley, California "super bloom" (Rove)
  • Temperature inversion fog filling the Grand Canyon (TwistedSifter)
  • Oberammergau Passion Play (Wikipedia)
  • "The Grand Tour" European art exhibitions (Twyla)
  • 10-year... flood? storm? drought? heatwave? locust or cicada swarm? crime? scandal?
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