At the summit of the vertebral column is the skull. The skull is of an oval shape. It is wider behind than in front. The bones it is comprised of are flattened or irregular, the only exception is the mandible. These bones are immovably jointed together. The cranium lodges and protects the brain and consists of eight bones and the skeleton of the face, fourteen: therefore there are a total of 22 bones in the skull.

December 22: the now infamous suicide attack at the mess hall of a US military base in Mosul, killing 22 Americans. www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/22/iraq.main/

In the third Austin Powers movie, an asteroid called Nimrod-22 is incoming to strike earth. In Minority Report, the date given for the election in the advertisement early in the movie is Tuesday April 22.