10000 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

• In art,
  • Xenophon, on his Retreat with the Ten Thousand, first seeing the Sea, painting by Benjamin Haydon
• In software,
  • the Year 10,000 problem is the collective name for all potential software bugs that will emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises.
• In currency,
  • the new 10,000 Iraqi dinar banknote has Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (known as Alhazen to medieval scholars in the West) on the front and Hadba Minaret on the back. The old bill had a picture of Saddam Hussein and Samarra: Spiral Minaret- Al-Mawiya
  • the Japanese 10,000 yen banknote has a portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi
  • the U.S. Ten Thousand Dollar Note has a picture of Salmon P. Chase.
• In films,
  • 10,000 B.C. (2008) Overview from IMDb
  • 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002, TV) Overview from IMDb
  • The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1956) Overview from IMDb
  • In Pixar's film Up The main character, Carl Fredrickson attaches 10,000 helium toy balloons to his house.
  • Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (1980, mini) Overview from IMDb
• In finance, on March 29, 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,006.78 which was the first time the index closed above the 10,000 mark.
• In futurology, Stewart Brand in Visions of the Future: The 10,000-Year Library proposes a museum built around a 10,000 year clock as an idea for assuring that vital information survives future crashes of civilizations.
• In games,
  • each of the nine Mahjong character suit tiles (1 to 9) represents ten thousand (wan) coins, or one hundred strings of one hundred coins.
  • Ten Thousand Year Ko is a one of the rules of ko in the board game of Go
  • Ten Thousand is one name of a dice game that is also called farkle.
• In game shows, The $10,000 Pyramid ran on television from 1973 to 1974
• In history,
  • Army of 10,000 Sixty Day Troops, 1862–1863. American Civil War
  • The Army of the Ten Thousand were a group of Ancient Greek mercenaries who marched against the Persian Shah Artaxerxes II.
  • The Goddess can appear as the Lady of the Ten Thousand Names, as did Isis who was called Isis of Ten Thousand Names
  • the Persian Immortals were also called the Ten Thousand or 10,000 Immortals, so named because their number of 10,000 was immediately re-established after every loss.
  • The 10,000 Day War: Vietnam by Michael MacLear ISBN 0-312-79094-5 also alternate titles The ten thousand day war: Vietnam, 1945–1975 (10,000 days is 27.4 years)
  • Tomb of Ten Thousand Soldiers – defeat of the Tang Dynasty army of China in the Nanzhao kingdom in 751
• In language,
  • the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese phrase live for ten thousand years was used to bless emperors in East Asia.
  • the words in the Interlingua-English Dictionary are all drawn from 10000 roots.
  • Μύριοι is an Ancient Greek name for 10.000 taken into the modern European languages as 'myriad' (see above). Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have words with the same meaning.
• In literature,
  • Man'yōshū (万葉集 Man'yōshū, Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves) is the oldest existing, and most highly revered, collection of Japanese poetry
  • Ten Thousand a Year 1839 by Samuel Warren
  • Ten Thousand a Year 1883?. A Drama, in three acts. Adapted from the celebrated novel of the same name, by the author of the Diary of a Physician, and arranged for the stage, by Richard Brinsley Peake
  • Anabasis, by the Greek writer Xenophon (431–360 B.C.), about the Army of the Ten Thousand – Greek mercenaries taking part in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
  • The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford. 2001. ISBN 0-312-26946-3 Historic fiction about the Army of the Ten Thousand
  • The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980–1990 by Charles Wright ISBN 0-374-29293-0 ISBN 0-374-52326-6
  • Ten Thousand Lovers by Edeet Ravel ISBN 0-06-056562-4
• In music,
  • 10,000 Days is the title of the fourth studio album by Tool
  • Ten Thousand Fists is an album by Disturbed.
  • 10 000 Hz Legend album by Air 2001
  • 10,000 Maniacs is a US rock band.
  • 10,000 Men is a song by Bob Dylan
  • Ten Thousand Men of Harvard is a fight song of Harvard University
  • 10,000 promises is a song by the Backstreet Boys
  • 10,000 Promises. is a Japanese popular music group
  • Ten Thousand Strong is a song by American Power metal band, Iced Earth.
• In philosophy, Lao Zi writes about ten thousand things in the Tao Te Ching In Zen Buddhism, the "10,000 Things" is a term meaning all of phenomenal reality.
• In psychology, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical, by Miller, Gustavus Hindman (1857–1929). Project Gutenberg
• In religion,
  • the Bible,
    • has 52 references to ten thousand in the King James Version.,
    • Revelation 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; (KJV) The Apocalypse of John
  • hymn, Ten thousand times ten thousand
  • The Ten thousand martyrs from The Catholic Encyclopedia
• In sports,
  • In athletics, 10,000 metres, 10 kilometres, 10 km, or 10K (6.2 miles) is the final standard track event in a long-distance track event and a distance in other racing events such as running, cycling and skiing.
  • In bicycle racing, annual Tour of 10,000 Lakes Stage Race in Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • In baseball, on July 15, 2007, the Philadelphia Phillies became the first team in professional sports' history to lose 10,000 .