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• One hundred and fifty-nine seven-letter words, being the greatest assortment in a given length.
• John Swartzwelder wrote fifty-nine episodes of The Simpsons, including such classics as "Homer the Great" (the Stonecutter's show) and "Itchy and Scratchyland.
• At that point, the 1,500 track fans in the stands broke into such an uproar that the rest of the announcement was lost: "Three minutes, fifty-nine and four-tenths seconds.

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News & Articles

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• Progressive® Insurance Giving 59 Vehicles to Veterans, Veteran Families and Military Organizations at Keys to ...
  Fifty-nine of our country’s veterans and their families will soon be driving away with refurbished cars, courtesy of Progressive® Insurance and the National Auto Body Council .
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• 259 Stoughton High graduates told it's a `beginning of a new chapter’
  Two hundred fifty-nine Stoughton High School students graduated Thursday evening, June 6, during a commencement ceremony held on the Anthony L. Sarno Jr. football field.
  June 10, 2013 - Stoughton Journal
• Photos: Staten Island Borough President Molinaro fetes leading readers
  Fifty-nine fourth-graders rise to his six-book challenge
  June 7, 2013 - Staten Island Advance

Quotes

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• Ian Macdonald in Sydney Morning Herald
  Mr Macdonald said: "Fifty-nine large bands of locusts have been found in the last 24 hours. They were spotted by planes between Narrandera, Grong Grong and Ardlethan. The largest of these bands covers around 24 square kilometres - so it's a massive...
• Paul Goydos in DesMoinesRegister.com
  Fifty-nine is one of those things I'll look back at and say, That's pretty cool,Goydos said.
• Zack Greinke in MLB.com
  That kind of blew me away,Greinke said about Orel Hershiser's record 59-inning scoreless streak. "It's just about impossible to get to 34 nowadays. Fifty-nine, that's impossible. I would have been happy with 20."