Fifty First

Did Rilke know that he would die in his fifty-first year? ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

We will speak in favor of HR 26, "Expressing support for admitting the District of Columbia as the fifty-first State of the United States of America," a bill to demonstrate their support for the 620,000 Americans who reside in our Nation's Capital. ❋ Michael A. Brown (2012)

In testimony whereof, the said Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and warriors of the said Potawatamie tribe have hereunto set their hands, at the Wabash, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Could this be the fifty-first contemporary political ideology? ❋ Unknown (2010)

With the news that Gary McKinnon has lost his extradition appeal, this just further confirms that the UK has now become the fifty-first USA state. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is about time we stop treating Israel as the fifty-first state. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I get more time to debate renaming a Post Office than I will get to debate a bill that could make Puerto Rico the fifty-first state. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was approaching her fifty-first birthday with the expectation that much of what she had in life—her modest home, her marriage, and her life savings—would all soon be gone. ❋ KARL ROVE (2010)

“Google is killing us,” sighed Angela Nova, who had been outed by a web-savvy student after saying Alaska and Hawaii were the fifty-first and fifty-second states. ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2010)

On my fifty-first birthday, I went dancing with a parrot. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

His fifty-first birthday — booze-addled, berated by a celluloid brat in front of strangers and acquaintances alike. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Relax he's a 'Fifty First Century Guy' he's just a little more flexible when it comes to dancing. How flexible? Well by his time your species has spread across half the galaxy. Meaning? So Many species, so little time. ~The Ninth Doctor to [Rose Tyler] Hey did I see Chris go home with [Shelia] AND James last night? He's [a Fifty] First Century Guy. ❋ Flashwildecard (2011)