That's why housing buildings do not have the thirteenth floor
If you wait for a rationality, get ready to drop.
As humans, we tend to attribute an excellent sense to the numbers. (Exposure A: How many times, like a child, did you wish at 11:11?) But this fascination is summarized better as our collective refusal to set foot on the 13th floor of any large building. In fact, if you have not noticed here now, it's usually not evenpossible To visit the 13th floor: most buildings are just 12 to 14 years old.
Which give?
In almost all cultures,Number 13 is a disturbing symbol-Une that is impregnated in centuries of superstition. Many historians believe that this fear of number 13 may come from the last dinner of Jesus Christ, where there were 13 people-Jesus and his twelve apostles sitting around a table. As the story happens, Judas, the 13th person placed at the table, ended up being an apostle who betrayed Jesus at the end, many begin to connect Judas with the unlucky number.
Moreover, as if an infamous betrayal whose reverberations are felt of literal millennia later were not enough to impregnate number 13 with a feeling of unshakable fear - there were othersstrange events in history involving the number that gently evokes a sense of misfortune.
For example, in some old civilizations, 13 cycles of the moon were considered unlucky - and those responsible for calendars had to change their lunar calculations to account for the anomaly. And then, of course, there isFriday 13. Our fears surrounding the non-vacation date becomes ahead of the Crusades: Precisely, Friday, October 13, 1307. At that date, King Philip IV from France ordered the bloody torture and the knight knight kneading, a group venerated composed of the group. the most qualified fighters during the era. (Think of it as avengers of the 13th and 14th centuries. And imagine, for a second, what would be the reaction today if Iron Man and societyActually Got Thanos-Ed out of existence. It would be a bad chance of augur, if there were one.)
Finally, this superstition and this culture extend to the architecture of America. From the 20th century, whenThe skyscrapers have begun to crop in larger cities, false buildings excessively from the 13th floor because of a simple economy: they did not want to give anyone a reasonnot want to rent space in their building.
These days, it's virtually scriptures. Samuel Lewis, Director General of the Lefrak Management Company,Recount theNew York Times that superstition has now affected the crushingmajority of large buildings In America: "If you took a survey on the high uprights, I think you will find 90% not having a 13th floor. The owners are simply afraid that people do not get up."
For those who prefer to play safe when it comes tosuperstitions such as theseYou can easily find out that your building is likely to answer you. Asreported throughAtlantic, research conducted byCityrealityThe real estate list site based on the city of New York, found that, out of 629 apartment buildings in New York with 13 floors or more, just 9% labeled their 13th floor like the 13th floor. According to researchers, management companies for the rest of the buildings found creative ways to mark the ground: "14," "M" or, if 13 is the last floor ", ph." (It means "penthouse")
However, despite the fact that this fear is rooted in the consciousness of the American Americans, it seems that we care more about the 13th floor view than on the mysterious mountains that could hide in every corner. Case: Every new apartment building added to Rooosevelt is growing in New York in recent years, there is a thirteenth floor well marked. According toNew York TimesReport, it did not discourage tenants a bit.
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