Numeric: As I was researching these numeric palindromes, I found myself reading a blog about palindromic dates in the 21st century(link:http://faculty.up.edu/ainan/palindrome.html). As I perused his site, I saw a few interesting dates, but for some reason, January 2nd 2010 caught my eye. Not only is this date the 2nd day of a new decade, it was also the first time in almost 9 years that the date was palindromic. The last time before that was 620 years ago on 08-31-1380. As i researched further, I noticed many palindrome dates from this month. In one of his videos, the professor mentioned that January is appropriate for palindromic dates, since it is named after the Roman God Janus, who is commonly depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions.
Word or Phrase: My absolute favorite palindrome has to be that the fear of palindromes is actually a palindrome in an of itself. This fear is called aibohphobia. Whoever names theses phobias is not a very nice person.
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