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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Why Are Tuesday and 13 Bad Luck

Why are Tuesday and 13 considered as a day of bad luck in Greece and some other cultures? It’s because each peoples have their own prejudices and superstitions and they seem to wrap around that day and number in some cases. One of the reasons is that Constantinople fell on a Tuesday, May 24, 1453. When the Ottomans conquered the city the sum of the date of the fall was 1+4+5+3=13. In the ...

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