Seventy-three years after ratification of the U. S. Constitution, Georgia seceded from the Union and joined other Southern states to form the Confederate States of America in February 1861.

Seventy-three years after the fall, Caroline dies, telling the story of Prime Intellect and cyberspace to her oldest daughter but swearing her to secrecy.

* Beattie, Taylor V. " Personality: Seventy-three years after his bayonet assault on Hill 188, Freddie Stowers got his Medal of Honor.

Seventy-three percent of all Latvian residents confirmed their strong support for independence March 3 in an advisory referendum.

Seventy-three hostages ( including six minors ) were rendered no medical aid.

Seventy-three people were reportedly infected, of which there were no fatalities.

Seventy-three engineers from his unit worked in hard-hit Hancock County, Mississippi.

Seventy-three people died and hundreds were injured in one of the largest explosions ever experienced in the British Isles.

Seventy-three students were injured, six of them critically, though none were killed.

Seventy-three of 75 bees reached it in about 28 seconds.

* Seventy-three is the 21st prime number.

The number 21 in binary is 10101 and Seventy-three in binary, 1001001, both are a palindrome.

Seventy-three percent of the faculty at the school have advanced degrees.

Seventy-three percent of students are from out of state.

Seventy-three men, women, and children, mostly striking mine workers and their families, were crushed to death in a stampede when someone falsely yelled " fire " at a crowded Christmas party.

Seventy-three of the principal rebels were sentenced to perpetual banishment.

Seventy-three manuscripts of Odoric's narrative are known to exist in Latin, French and Italian: of these the chief, of about 1350, is in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris ( Manuscripts lat.

Seventy-three cases of arson were reported from different jurisdictions which caused loss of property, death of three Hindus and six Muslims and injures to four Hindus and six Muslims.

It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

My father ran him off here six years ago ''.

Ten years ago they blew up some of our ditches.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

`` Seven years ago, Commodore '', Rob said impassively.

A little more than twenty years ago the American people turned an important corner.

Thirty years ago, while the nation was wallowing in economic depression, the prevailing philosophy of government was to stand aside and allow `` natural forces '' to operate and cure the distress.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

But there have been abrupt changes as well: the sit-ins, the picket lines, the bus strikes -- all of these were unheard-of even ten years ago.

they were like this fifty-odd years ago, and yesterday.

But the fences were still in place fifty-odd years ago, and when we stood on the gate to look over, the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving stones with grass between and on both sides.

I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.

Some fourteen or fifteen years ago, in an essay I called The Leader Follows -- Where??

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

( Two years ago the photography editor of Vogue Magazine titled his article about Steichen, `` The World's Greatest Photographer ''.