100 Days

So this is not what you think it is... A list of the significance of 100 days

100 days to my Board Exam of which I just came back from an exhausting 3 days in Baltimore in a review course

But other hundred day references...

1. 100 days in the Oval office (Countdown for Barack Obama and a measure of his mettle)
2. The Hundred Days marked the period between Napoleon Bonaparte's return from exile on ElbaLouis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 111 days). This period is also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, and includes the Waterloo Campaign and the Neapolitan War to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King
3. Hundred Days Offensive, the final Allied offensive on the Western Front during the World War I
4. Hundred Days' Reform, a period of social and institutional reform in late imperial China
5. Hundred Days Men, a Union military recruitment initiative during the American Civil War
6. Canada's Hundred Days, the last 96 days of World War I
7. "The First Hundred Days", the start of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 administration, resulting in the New Deal.
   • By extension, there is often talk of incoming U.S. presidents' actions in their first hundred days. Refer to #1
8. "100 Days", the first term (1834-1835) of British Prime Minister Robert Peel
9. "100 Days", the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
10. In the first 100 days of a child's life...
    

• On the morning of the third day, a Chinese baby gets her first bath. The midwife officiates this ceremony which is attended by female friends and relatives. The midwife sits with the mother on her bed surrounded by a straw sieve, a mirror, a padlock, an onion, a comb and a weight. An offering of incense to the god and goddess of the bed burns nearby. The baby is bathed in hot water boiled with locust branches and artemis plants. There is red silk and a string of cash fastened around the tub. Guests place a piece of fruit or colored egg into the water. Each guest places a spoonful of cool water in the basin and gives a small gift of silver to the baby.
  

• The baby's biggest celebration is at one month when the mother's allowed out of her room. Family and friends dine and celebrate all night. Money is given in bright red envelopes and the baby wears a silver or gold padlock around his neck locking the child to this world.
• On the hundredth day some Chinese families host another celebration. Friends and family bring fish and chicken to the child's home. When the chicken is cooked, the tongue is rubbed on the baby's lips to make the child a good talker. And the baby's paternal grandfather may present the baby with a rocking chair.

• In Korea, on the 100th day after a child's birth, a small feast is prepared to celebrate the child's having survived this difficult period. If the child is sick at this time, the family passes the day with neither announcement nor party, for to do otherwise is considered bad luck for the infant.

  At this time the samshin halmoni is honored with offerings of rice and soup in gratitude for having cared for the infant and the mother, and for having helped them live through a difficult period. The family, relatives and friends then celebrate with rice cakes, wine, and other delicacies such as red and black bean cakes sweetened with sugar or honey.

  To prevent potential harm to the child and to bring him or her good luck and happiness, red bean cakes are customarily placed at the four compass points within the house. If the steamed rice cakes are shared with 100 people, it is believed that the child will have a long life. Therefore, rice cakes are usually sent to as many people as possible to help celebrate the happiness of the occasion. Those who receive rice cakes return the vessels with skeins of thread, expressing the hope of longevity, and rice and money, symbolizing future wealth.