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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:03 pm

g-one, you forgot to count [-X

Asteroid 700 Auravictrix, a totally unremarkable Main-belt body of the Flora family

The fughetta on "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" BWV 701 is a beautiful treatment of one GErmany's all time Christmas hits.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby g-one » Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:29 am

Arneb wrote:g-one, you forgot to count [-X

Oops, I'll have to go twice for penance.

701 - the number of posts in this thread when Arneb dealt '700' - because of my screwup. :mrgreen:
And to set the world right again, 702 km is the distance record for a LoRaWAN packet.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Fri Aug 31, 2018 1:27 pm

U-703 has been missing since the 16th of December, 1944. It left Narvik in Norway, heading for a spot off the east coast of Greenland to launch a weather buoy, but was never heard from again.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:49 am

Here's a subject worthy of the Grauniad: A study found that the Asterix comics up till 2011 depicted a whopping 704 victims of brain trauma as if it were funny!. This is a scandal. I mean how COULD they. Our youth will go through life thnking throwing someone through the air squashing them with a menhir is just no big deal right?, Ah, the times!!!
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Sep 05, 2018 9:26 am

Lianachan wrote:U-703 has been missing since the 16th of December, 1944. It left Narvik in Norway, heading for a spot off the east coast of Greenland to launch a weather buoy, but was never heard from again.

I think we can assume the weather was quite bad then?

AD 705, not a Balkan war this time but a Byzantine Civil War* with Justinian II using Bulgar troops to seize the throne.

*note the use of an indefinite article. Opinions differ as to how many civil wars they had.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:51 am

The Annals of Ulster have this to say about the year 706:

Do-Chonna of Daire, and Oiséne son of Gallust, abbot of Cluain Moccu Nóis, rest.

Bruide son of Derile dies.

Conchobor son of Mael Dúin, king of Cenél Cairpri, was killed.

Cellan son of Sechnusach, the learned, died.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Wed Sep 12, 2018 1:36 pm

And of course,

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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:32 am

:=D:

In 708 CE the murrain of cows raged again.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:36 am

Yes, one could be led to believe flying could actually be elegant and classy fun when looking at these images. Of course, any economist can berate you how ridiculous 4 engines are on a "small" plane like this.

The year 709 saw the fall of Ceuta to Musa ibn Nusayr, who now controlled the entire Maghreb and prepared the attack on Europe. See you at Tours and Poitiers.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:56 am

There'll be some exciting nake-eye astronomy to see in 1.281 million years when Gliese 710, an orange .6 Solar mass K star, passes the Sun at a minimum distance of about 13,000 AU, or .221 light years. It will shine as brightly as Mars at opposiion, and it will move in front of the stellar background fast enough so that its motion can be perceived during a human lifetime. Since it will likely stir up the Oort cloud, naked-eye comets will be frequent and gorgeous.

For the same reason, there might be the threat of a major impact event. I hope we'll have our act together by then.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Tue Sep 25, 2018 2:40 pm

Nechtan mac Der-Ilei was King of the Picts in 711.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:08 pm

I see your Pict and raise you two Langobards: In 712, the Langobards even get two new kings: Ansprant, who seizes power back from the regent (Cunnicpert) who had forced him into exile, only to die a short time afterward. His son Liutprant succeeds him.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:44 pm

713 is an area code in Texas. Houston, perhaps?
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Мастер » Sun Apr 25, 2021 8:47 am

714 is the number of home runs hit in American baseball by the Great Bambino, George Herman "Babe" Ruth.

The record was beaten by Hank Aaron, who started his career in the Negro American League. Eventually moving over to the same league where the whities played, he received a standing ovation when I saw him, despite being from the visiting team. Hank Aaron's record was subsequently beaten by Barry Bonds.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon May 10, 2021 11:13 am

715, or "the back of seven" as it is known round here. If we are talking about time.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Mon May 10, 2021 12:57 pm

Selbach mac Ferchair rebuilt Dún Ollaig in 714 AD, having destroyed it in 701. It had also been burned down in 686 and 698. It was abandoned a little over 200 years later, and the site was refortified in the early 13thC.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon May 10, 2021 3:53 pm

Are we not going up the way here?

716: Arab-Byzantine Wars: Umayyad Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd Al-Malik begins the preparations for his campaign on Constantinople; he orders new ships be built in the port-cities in Palestine, Egypt & Ifriqiya. General Umar ibn Hubayra raids southern Anatolia by sea and conquers Lycia, where another Arab fleet joins him, and they spend winter. As the navy advances, Sulayman sends land armies into Anatolia, which settle at Caesarea. We've always been at war with Arabia.

717 is the littlest Boeing.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Mon May 10, 2021 4:03 pm

Heid the Ba wrote:Are we not going up the way here?


Yes indeed. I fucked that right up.

In 718 AD Conrí son of Congal Cennfhata and Ailill son of Fínnechta were killed.
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Postby Richard A » Tue May 11, 2021 10:24 am

Arneb wrote:In 20 years, my son will be allowed to drink beer in Texas.


Will he? I thought it was 21 across the US. But then I guess Texas is rich enough not to need Federal money for its roads (a topic for another thread).
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Postby Arneb » Tue May 11, 2021 11:26 am

Richard A wrote:
Arneb wrote:In 20 years, my son will be allowed to drink beer in Texas.


Will he? I thought it was 21 across the US. But then I guess Texas is rich enough not to need Federal money for its roads (a topic for another thread).


It is! But that post was from Oct. 2007. So it checks out. :mrgreen:

719 days of State of Emergency in France after the Paris attacks of 2015.

Move 720 degrees and you've done two pirouettes.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Sun Sep 05, 2021 5:56 pm

U721.1

Dúnchad Bec, king of Cenn Tíre, dies.

U721.2

An earthquake in October.

U721.3

A battle between the Connachta and Corco Baiscinn, in which Talamnach's son fell.

U721.4

The killing of Cú Dínaisc, son of Rothechtach.

U721.5

Death of Maenach, abbot of Lann Léire.

U721.6

The wasting of Mag Breg by Cathal son of Finnguine, and by Murchad son of Bran.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Arneb » Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:10 pm

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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Mon Nov 08, 2021 3:10 pm

Fachtna mac Folachtan, Abbot of Clonfert, died in 723.
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:38 pm

In 724 Fogartach mac Néill dies and is succeeded as High King of Ireland by Cináed mac Írgalaig (also known as "the one-eyed").
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Re: Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

Postby Lianachan » Fri May 20, 2022 7:26 am

The Reckoning of Time is an Anglo-Saxon treatise written in Medieval Latin by the Northumbrian monk Bede in 725
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