20 (number) - in Other Fields

In Other Fields

• The number 20 can also be called a score (as Abraham Lincoln did in his Gettysburg Address or Martin Luther King in his I Have a Dream speech).
• The Twenty Year Curse refers to the pattern of presidents of the United States who were elected to office in 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940, and 1960 to die in office. This pattern ended with the 1980 presidency of Ronald Reagan, who survived his time in office and, notably, an attempted assassination.
• In the United States Constitution, $20 is the threshold value of civil disputes above which the right to trial by jury is preserved
• Yan Tan Tethera is a 20-word jingle for counting sheep
• The ordinal adjective is vicenary
• There are 20 ounces in Venti size coffees at Starbucks coffee shops.

20 is:

• Twenty, Lincolnshire, a village
• The code for international direct dial phone calls to Egypt
• The designation of Interstate 20, a freeway that runs from Texas to South Carolina
• CB slang for "a place", being short for "10–20", used in reference to a person or object's location
• In the French and Portuguese education system, grades are given out of 20. Giving 20/20 is a very rare occasion.