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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:27 am

September 2007 - Microsoft to pay $179 million in Iowa antitrust settlement.
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Postby pmcolt » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:56 pm

180° = π radians.
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Postby Arneb » Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:52 pm

The German composer Carl Maria von Weber, of Freischütz fame, died 181 years ago.
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Postby KLA2 » Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:31 pm

182 years ago, President John Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory. His critics declared such a measure transcended constitutional limitations.

13 years later, Hopkins Observatory was dedicated in Williamstown, Massachusetts

17 years later the U.S. Naval Observatory was authorized by an act of Congress
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:45 pm

NGC 183 is a Elliptical galaxy in the Andromeda constellation.
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Postby Arneb » Tue Dec 11, 2007 1:24 pm

Sweden ruled over Pommerania, now in North Easterrn Germany and Poland, for 184 years until the Vienna Congress.
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:14 pm

In the year 2006 185.000 km of coper-wire was stolen in Belgium.
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Postby KLA2 » Wed Dec 12, 2007 6:37 pm

When yellow crystals of mosesite, a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury, are heated to 186 °C, they become isotropic.
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Postby Arneb » Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:54 pm

Freedom 7, with Alan Shepard on board, reached a maximum altitude of 187 km on 9 April, 1959
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:29 am

188 years ago. (1819) Spain cedes Florida to the United States.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:05 pm

189 years ago, in January, Venus occulted Jupiter. It was the last occultation of a planet by another planet before November 22, 2065.
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Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:22 pm

Focke-wulf 190 a fine looking aircraft.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:37 pm

191 years ago (1816), was the Year Without a Summer.

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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:41 pm

192 CE.

Roman emperor Commodus is assassinated by a wrestler named Narcissus, at the behest of Commodus' concubine, Chamberlain and Praetorian prefect.
The Antonines dynasty ends.

Civil war again strikes Rome (192–193).
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:47 pm

The United States' State Department recognizes 193 independent countries around the world

http://geography.about.com/cs/countries ... ntries.htm
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:55 am

194 years ago, the French leave the Netherlands.
Independent government is restored.
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Postby KLA2 » Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:02 pm

195 years ago, the war of 1812. The last time (I think) Canadian (at the time, considered British irregulars :roll: ) and American troops fought each other.
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Postby Arneb » Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:18 pm

196 appears to be the smallest Lychrel number. Follow the link if you want to know what that means and/or if you are looking for something your computer can do while idling. 8)
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:40 pm

197 CE, Pharmacologia by Galen is published.
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Postby Arneb » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:04 pm

NC Post wrote:SAN DIEGO -- The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday that it agreed to pay $198.1 million to settle 144 claims of sexual abuse by clergy, the second-largest payment by any diocese


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Postby troubleagain » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:00 pm

U.S. 199 is short U.S. highway that connects Crescent City, California, with Grants Pass, Oregon.
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:21 pm

200 years ago, (asteroid) 4 Vesta was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. Second largest asteroid, and we are going there. (The mission launched on September 27, 2007 and will arrive at Vesta in the fall of 2010)
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:02 pm

"11001001" (201 in binary) is the title of an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Postby pmcolt » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:09 pm

202 is the HTTP status code to indicate that a client's response was valid and accepted, but has not been fully processed.
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Postby KLA2 » Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:44 pm

When launched (by Japan) in 1888, the Kotaka, at 203 tons, was the largest torpedo boat in the world.
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