A guy with round gogos recently paid a visit to a government building. On the way up in the elevator the guy noticed that the building did not have a 13th Floor. After asking around no one was able to explain why this was the case. Further research revealed that the thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi-level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky. This brought in the question of when exactly the number 13 became unlucky in Zambia. Ordinarily the superstitious explanation of 13 came up with some saying Loki was the 13th Norse god and Judas was the 13th person to sit for the last supper.
Bungus records that the Jews murmured 13 times against God in the exodus from Egypt, that the thirteenth psalm concerns wickedness and corruption, that the circumcision of Israel occurred in the thirteenth year."
Popularly known for protecting the Holy Grail, King Philip IV conspired with Pope Clement V to have all the people arrested for Satanism after he lost the war with England. This incident took place on Friday, October 13, 1307.
The research led the guy with round gogos to more uneasy findings on the number 13. One theory said if a person has 13 letters in his or her name, the person is considered cursed. Charles Manson, Jack the Ripper, Theodore Bundy, and Albert De Salvo, Jeffrey Dahmer all had 13 letters in their names and they were all murderers. It's a very popular superstition that is widely spread for its many real life examples. As you would expect like any person the guy with round gogos counted the number of letters in his real name and it turned out to be 13. At that point the guy stopped reading. The number 13 inspired this piece of work on corruption in Zambia.
This paper concludes that an integrity system is the solution but before we get there we must deal with understanding of the scope of corruption on the 13th Floor which according to some building elevators doesn’t exist.
This paper has exactly 13 pages and has been uploaded on Friday 13th. The paper is called "The 13th Floor - Corruption in Zambia"
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