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Seventy-three is also:
- The total number of books in the Holy Bible in the Catholic version if the Book of Lamentations is counted as a book separate from the Book of Jeremiah.
- The designation of USA Interstate 73, a freeway in North Carolina.
- The registry of the U.S. Navy's nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), named after U.S. President George Washington.
- The year AD 73, 73 BC, or 1973.
- Amateur radio operators often use the number 73 as an abbreviation for "best regards", typically when ending a QSO (a conversation with another ham). In Morse code, 73 is a palindrome (--··· ···--).
- 73 (also known as 73 Amateur Radio Today), was an amateur radio magazine published from 1960 to 2003.
- Each of the five seasons of the Discordian calendar has 73 days.
- No. 73 was name of a 1980s children's television programme in the United Kingdom. It ran from 1982-1988 and starred Sandi Toksvig
- The Blues Image song "Ride Captain Ride" (1970) begins with "73 men sailed out on the San Francisco Bay"
- Singer Johnny Mathis has had 73 charted albums on Billboard Top 200 Charts
- Pizza 73 is a Canadian pizza chain with 51 stores
- Game show Match Game '73 in 1973
- The Felony Squad aired on ABC from '66 - '69 for 73 episodes
- The TV show Hope & Faith aired on ABC, 2003 - 2006 for 73 episodes
- Fender Rhodes Stage 73 Piano
- Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
- PT-73, the PT boat on TV's McHale's Navy
- 73 is the current area of resistance to the downside of the iTraxx Europe Series 9 5y credit index. The number has taken on almost mythical status amongst the denizens of the financial community in London
- The number of the French department Savoie
- On a CB radio, 10-73 means "speed trap at..."
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