Odysseus, the 13th of his group of companions, is the only one to
have escaped the devouring appetite of the Cyclops Polyphemus. The
ill-fated Apollo 13 mission was launched on April 11, 1970, at 1313
hours Central Time from Pad 39 (13 x 3), and had to be aborted on
April 13 after the explosion of an oxygen tank serving the
commanding ship. Three of the sleeping periods scheduled for the
astronauts were supposed to start 13 minutes past the hour, as was
one of the possible splashdown times. There are said to be 13
stages of Buddhahood consisting of ten bohisattva stages and three
additional pre-Buddhist stages. When Queen Elizabeth II paid a
visit to West Germany in 1965, the number of the platform at
Duisburg railway station, from which she was about to depart, was
changed from 13 to 12A. The 13 weather-related disasters covered by
insurance companies: (1) hurricane, (2) tornado, (3) flood/flash
flood, (4) lightning, (5) blizzard, (6) avalanche, (7) ice storm,
(8) dust storm, (9) hailstorm, (10) forest fire, (11) tsunami
(tidal wave), (12) drought, (13) heat wave/cold wave. From the
Yorkshire Post, May 1960: "A note left by a window cleaner who was
found dead in a gas-filled room at his home said: 'It just needed
to rain today-Friday the 13th-for me to make up my mind.'"
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