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Happy BlogDay

56 is an interesting number.

It's the magic number behind Joe DiMaggio’s best year - his legendary 56-game hitting streak in 1941.

It's a popular Indian card game.

It's a small community (of approx 156 inhabitants) 85 miles from Little Rock in Arkansas.

It's the number of signatories to the American Declaration of Independence, the "Fifty-Six Brave Souls"

It's the reported number of discrete ethnic groups in China.

It's the number of short Sherlock Holmes stories (not counting the major novels) written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

And it's the age that Doc Searls - Blogfather to so many of us, and just plain all round good bloke - turns today.



Happy birthday, Doc - hope you have a wonderful day.