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Petrosian resigned on the forty-sixth move, and Bobby Fischer was the new challenger for the World Championship.

When, the following year, Oklahoma entered the Union as the forty-sixth state, members of the tribe were able to sell their surface land in what was now Osage County.

The lectern was forty-six inches high, for the forty-sixth, and next, President.

“Oklahoma!,” based on the 1931 play “Green Grow the Lilacs,” takes place in 1906, when Oklahoma was on the cusp of becoming the forty-sixth state.

Last year, I travelled from Abuja, where I live, to Umujieze for my parents’ forty-sixth wedding anniversary.