Friday 17 
Today is Friday 17, a day that, let's face it, takes quite a while ' anxiety at all. It is said that this is the most unfortunate day, the one where everything that should not happen, will happen. Besides the 2008 is a leap year and therefore the amount of bad luck could also increase. in proportion to the panic that everyone has something bad to happen. But where does this belief that the coincidence with the number 17 on Friday brought so much misfortune?
E 'universally recognized that the sixth day of the week is not exactly favorable. In pagan Rome the sixth week was the day of the executions, as later in England for the hanging of the condemned. In Northern Europe, on Friday is the day dedicated to the goddess Freya ( friday in English, freitag in German), if that can coincide in dies Veneris with the figure of Venus, has over the greek-roman deity further characteristic of being protector of the magical arts, and by extension of the cult of witches. According biblical tradition of Friday the snake tempts Eve, was on Friday destroyed the temple of Solomon, Jesus died on Friday and Friday Judas hanged himself.
As for the unlucky number, there are opposing theories.
The day the ultimate loser as tradition dictates, in fact, on Friday 13, it seems that fall on Friday that 13 October of the Domini 1307 when King Philip the Fair, he arrested all the Templars on French territory, confiscating their property and handing them over to the Inquisition. As the story of the Templars could influence world events for which all the misfortune that has befallen them, had 13 shots on Friday, all land is still to explain. In Anglo-Saxon countries, however, is disastrous for the day par excellence, it also shows the film with the saga (12 movies) Friday, the 13th.
's dislike for the number 13 can be considered also for the fact that 13 is the successor of a highly composite number, 12, who is considered positive in many cultures. And 'in fact regarded as the great cosmic number, consisting of the triad and quadruplet spiritual practice. Since ancient times the number 13 was not well seen. Already in the Code of Hammurabi (1686 BC) is missing the number 13 in the numbered list of laws. In Norse mythology, Loki (sneaky, treacherous and evil) was the thirteenth god. A famous reference to 13 in the Gospels about the Last Supper, where Judas Iscariot was the thirteenth to sit at the table. Also in Christianity, Satan is described as the "thirteenth angel." It is also worth noting that in some years, the lunisolar calendars have 13 months, while the Gregorian calendar and the Islamic calendar always have 12 months in all and only year. Complying with this superstition, in some buildings, it refers to the 13th floor called something other than (for example, "12b" or "14", so jump in numbers from "12 °" to "14th"). An example is 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, the building of greater height in the UK. This "removal" is sometimes made for house numbers and interiors, hotel rooms, etc.. The Nazi jet fighter developed as a successor of He-112 He-100 was called to avoid the term He-113, which is considered unlucky. In the U.S., no plane has ever been called F-13, because many pilots were superstitious about it. Some "triskaidekafobici" (those who have a phobia of number 13) using the Apollo 13 lunar mission as evidence to prove that 13 is an unlucky number. The Apollo 13 was launched at 14:13 on the day April 11, 1970 (11/4/70, whose digits add up to 13), from a total of 39 (three times thirteen). Rumors claiming that in fact the time of the 13:13 launch was false. It is true that the local time in Texas, where control of the mission was carried out, it was 13:13. It seems that Apollo 13 would have to enter lunar orbit on April 13. In Formula 1, there is no car with the number 13. This number, in fact, was removed after two pilots were killed in as many accidents, both were in fact driving a car number 13.
As for the 17 there are several theories. Some argue that this theory has its origin at the time of ancient Rome. The tombs of the dead was common the word "VIXI" ("I lived", that is now ""...): died during the Middle Ages the Italian population had abandoned in favor of the Latin dialects and crossing a historical period characterized from illiteracy, mingled with that registration number 17 (represented by "XVII" in the Roman numbering system), hence the association with the death of number 17 and consequently with the misfortune. Others say the origin of the tradition is the number of fatal early deluge, which began following the old testament the 17th day of the second month (but ended the same day of the seventh month).
Whatever the origin of this superstition, you do not let this life conditions.
is how were the bells of my apartment building this morning. 
that the bus driver James Blake ordered to leave your seat and move to the back of the bus to make room for whites, Rosa was tired of being treated like second-class citizen and stayed in place. For this he was arrested and imprisoned for improper conduct and for violating city rules. That night, fifty leaders of the African-American community, led by then-unknown Martin Luther King met to decide what action to take to respond to the incident. The next day began a boycott of public transportation in Montgomery, protest that lasted 381 days, dozens of buses were stopped for months until he was removed from the law that legalized segregation. These events gave start to many other protests in many parts of the country. King himself wrote the incident, describing it as " individual expression of an infinite longing for human dignity and freedom " She sat in that place in the name of the abuses accumulated day by day and the boundless aspirations of future generations " . In 1956, the case of Mrs. Parks came to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, which ruled unconstitutional segregation on public buses. Since then, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. 
The August 28, 1963 while driving for work and freedom in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the Reverend Martin Luther King (1929-1968) repeatedly uttered those famous words "I Have a Dream" which implied the (agonizing) expected that he cultivated, along with many other people, so that every man would be recognized like any other, with the same rights and the same prerogatives, the very years in which - in the words of Bob Dylan - the times were changing and only the wind could bring an answer. Martin although it was often subject to beatings and serious offenses, nonviolent promoted many other battles: for the right to vote to blacks in Alabama, for education and equal pay, against the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King paid for his work with the passionate life: was killed by a white supremacist in Memphis, Tennessee, with winds of gunshot wounds, 4 April 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel just shortly before going to a meeting in a local church where he had planned a cult. 
In 1984, Jesse Jackson (1941) became the second African-American (after Shirley Chisholm) to organize a national campaign to become U.S. president, running for the Democrats. The primary base of the party was a success, he obtained 21% of the popular vote, but only 8% of the delegates and for this reason it was chosen as a candidate for president, the nomination went to Walter Frederick Mondale. Four years later, in 1988, Jackson offers to again as a candidate in the primaries for the Democratic Party. This time, having regard to its popular success was considered a strong and credible candidate with more money and better organization, collected more than twice as popular votes than four years ago, winning 11 primaries in several states of the union, outperforming the other candidates for both the popular vote and number of delegates. Another strong candidate was Democrat Michael Dukakis, who managed to win the states most populous and most white voters. For this reason Dukakis became the Democratic candidate in the elections of 1988 and Jackson returned to work on civil rights. 
Barack Houssein Obama II (1961), in the November 4 U.S. elections, resulted in a number of "electors" and would be designated as president-elect of the United States. Officially take office as the 44th President of the United States January 20, 2009, after the oath. It 'the first black president in American history. 
Today is Friday 17, a day that, let's face it, takes quite a while ' anxiety at all. It is said that this is the most unfortunate day, the one where everything that should not happen, will happen. Besides the 2008 is a leap year and therefore the amount of bad luck could also increase. in proportion to the panic that everyone has something bad to happen. But where does this belief that the coincidence with the number 17 on Friday brought so much misfortune? 
