Symbolism V: Number Symbolism and Business Symbolism By Don L. F. Nilsen And Alleen Pace Nilsen 1

2: Two for One Sale 2

2: Two’s Company; Three’s a crowd 3

3: Goldylocks and the Three Bears 4

3: Three Little Pigs, Trinity and Russian Troyka 5

3: Three Musketeers and The Three Billy Goats Gruff 6

4: 4 th of July, Quatorze Juillet & 24 th of July (Pioneer Day) 7 Oh, Say can you see…. Allons enfants de le patria…. Pioneer children sang as they walked, and walked, and walked, And walked……………………………….and walked. MORMONS: “Pioneer day”; NON MORMONS: “Pie and Beer Day”

5: Cinco de Mayo 8

6: Six Shooter 9

7: Seventh Day Adventist Church 10

7: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Seven Deadly Sins 11

7-11: Craps and Stores 12

10: Ten Commandments 13

12: Twelve Days of Christmas 14

12 and 13: Dozen and Baker’s Dozen 15

13: Floors, Tatoos, Friday 16

27: Ray Rice (elevator guy), Frank Mahovlich (Hockey Hall of Fame), and Ron Hextall (600 Penalty Minutes) 17

42: Tillman, Robinson, Adams “The meaning of life, the Universe and everything” quote from Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 18

49: 1849 Gold Rush & San Francisco 49ers 19

66: “Get your kicks…on route…66!” 20

76: The Spirit of ’76, Philadelphia 76ers & 76 Trombones 21

300: The Graphic Novel & The Movie 22

666 Satanic Pentagram 23

911: Nine One One  Nine Eleven 24

J. C. Penneys 25

5 & Dime Stores: Ben Franklin, F. W. Woolworth, Kress & Co., G. C. Murphy, Silver’s, Etc. 26

Dollar Stores 27

Business Symbolism: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade 28

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31 Don’t you want to go out and buy all of these fabulous American icons?