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201RAF Squadron 201 currently operates the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray. Zebra57
202The E number of the preservative potassium sorbate is 202. Strawberry
203Victoria No. 203 is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy film produced and directed by Brij. Zebra57
204204 is the HTTP status code indicating the request was received but there is no response to the request. Strawberry
205The Peugeot 205 is a supermini (B-segment) car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1999. Zebra57
206There are 206 bones in the typical adult human body. Strawberry
207207 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number. Zebra57
208208 is the area code for Idaho. Strawberry
209The Year 209AD is reckoned by many scholars to be the year that Saint Alban was martyred. Zebra57
210210 is the smallest area of two different primitive Pythagorean triangles (20, 21, 29 and 12, 35, 37). Strawberry
211211 AD the Romans designated York (Eboracum) as its northern capital. Officially Eboracum was capital of Britannia Inferior. Zebra57
212212 is a fragrance by Caroline Herrera. Strawberry
213213 was an American hip hop trio supergroup from Long Beach, California composed of Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Nate Dogg. Ed.
214214 is a song by Rivermaya. Strawberry
215The famous Pigalle Club in London was at 215 Piccadilly, W1. Zebra57
216216 is 6 cubed. Ed.
217In the Stephen King novel The Shining, room 217 plays a central part of the story as it is haunted. (The number was changed to 237 in the film.) Strawberry
218218TV is a Libyan free-to-air satellite channel founded in 2015 in Amman, Jordan. Ed.
219The Heinkel He219 "Uhu" ("Owl") was a very effective twin-engined night-fighter developed are Germany recognised how effective the RAF's airborne rader-equiped night-fighters had become. Fortunately Heinkel was regarded as "politically unsound" by the Nazi leadership, and so the project was given a low priority for resources. As a result very few were built and they had negligible effect on the course of WW2. The He219 was a very sophisticated aeroplane (the first operational aeroplane to feature ejection seats, for example) that has been largely forgotten by history. PDR
220220 is the title of a 1996 instrumental album by Phil Keaggy. Strawberry
221221b Baker Street was of course the address of a famous fictional drug addict and violin player. PDR
222222 is a song by Paul McCartney on the 2-CD edition of his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. Strawberry
223Dr Dooom - Apartment 223 is a song by Kool Keith. Zebra57
224The mathematician and philosopher Alex Bellos suggested in 2014 that a candidate for the lowest uninteresting number would be 224 because it was, at the time, "the lowest number not to have its own page on [the English-language version of] Wikipedia". (At the time of writing in September 2023, that honour belongs to 272.) Ed.
225The A225 road runs from Dartford in the north to Sevenoaks in the south following the Darenth Valley in Kent, England. Zebra57
226519 is the telephone area code which covers most of southwestern Ontario and was introduced in 1953 from portions of area codes 416 and 613. In 1957, parts of 519 and 613 formed 705. It is mostly bounded by Area code 905, except for Simcoe County which is bordered by 705. It was overlaid with the new area code 226 on October 21, 2006, at which time ten-digit dialing became mandatory. Area code 226 is Canada's 25th geographical area code (not including area code 600). Strawberry
227To the nearest gram, 8 ounces = 227 grams. Zebra57
228The 228 Incident, also known as the 228 Massacre, was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan that began on February 27, 1947, and was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang (KMT) government. Strawberry
229Rome at War AD 229-696 (Essential Histories) is a book by Michael Whitby. Zebra57
230+230 is the country code for Mauritius. Strawberry
231"Zimbabwe inflation hits 231 million per cent" was reported in the Daily Telegraph on 9 October 2008. Zebra57
232232 is the maximal number of regions into which 21 lines divide a plane. Strawberry
233Uranium-233 is a fissile artificial isotope of uranium. Zebra57
234234 and 330 are North American telephone area codes for part of Northeast Ohio. Strawberry
235235 is a Smarandache-Wellin number, being the concatenation of the first three primes in base 10. Ed.
236236 is the number of possible positions in Othello after 2 moves by both players. Strawberry
237In Stanley Kubrick's film version of Stephen King's The Shining, the number of the haunted room is changed from 217 to 237. This is because the hotel where the exteriors were filmed was concerned that guests would not want to book into the actual room 217 (it didn't have a room 237). Ed.
238238 is the sum of the first thirteen primes. Strawberry
2391/239 is a repeating decimal with period 7: 0.00418410041841... Ed.
240The famous skit by the US sketch comedy group LeVon and Barry is entitled "$240 Dollars Worth of Pudding". Strawberry
241A "241 offer" (two-for-one offer) lets you take a friend for free. Zebra57
242242 is the area code of the Bahamas. Strawberry
243.243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge Zebra57
244244 is the smallest number (besides 2) that can be written as the sum of 2 squares or the sum of two 5th powers. Strawberry
245Year 245 (CCXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Philippus and Titianus. Riddley
246The Dino 246 GT was the first automobile manufactured by Ferrari in high numbers. Zebra57
247247 = 50123 - 49876, the smallest number which can be expressed as the difference between two integers which together contain all digits 0-9. Strawberry
248J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio has the catalogue number BWV 248. Ed.
249249 Church of Christ is in Houston, Texas. Riddley
250In the Alternative Vote referendum of 2011, the NO lobby claimed that the Alternative Vote would cost the UK an additional £250 million in electoral expenses. Zebra57
251251 is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of three cubes in two ways. Strawberry
252 Atlantic 252 was an Irish longwave radio station broadcasting across Ireland and Great Britain from 1989 until 2002. Zebra57
253253 is the smallest non-trivial triangular star number. Strawberry
254Shell announced it was buying 254 Total petrol stations in June 2011. Zebra57
255255 = 11111111 in base 2. Strawberry
256The byte is the next standard unit above a bit. A byte is defined as 8 bits and can represent values from 0 to 255, or 2 to the power of 8 different values. A byte represents 256 different values. Zebra57
257257 is a Fermat prime. Strawberry
258In December 2017, the UN estimated that there were 258 million international migrants. Ed.
259259 = 1111 in base 6. Strawberry
260260 is the maximal number of regions into which space can be divided by 10 spheres. Zebra57
261261 is the number of essentially different ways to dissect a 16-gon into 7 quadrilaterals. Strawberry
262The ME 262 was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter plane. Riddley
263263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic, i.e. appears the same upside-down (69169). Strawberry
264264BC was the date of the outbreak of the First Punic War. Zebra57
265265 is the number of derangements of 6 items, i.e. arrangements in which no element appears in its original position. Strawberry
266In his WW1 stories Captain James Bigglesworth (aka "Biggles") flew a Sopwith Camel, commanding B-Flight of 266Sqn RFC. PDR
267267 is an area code for Pennsylvania. Strawberry
268In 268 AD, the emperor Gallienus was killed by his senior officers at Mediolanum (Milan) while besieging his rival Aureolus. Ed.
269UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier was a mixed martial arts event that took place on December 11, 2021. Ed.
270270 degrees is three-quarters of a circle. Ed.
271271 is the smallest prime p such that p - 1 and p + 1 are divisible by cubes. Strawberry
272According to some sources, the brief rule of the disabled King of Persia Hormazd I ended in 272 AD. Zebra57
273John Cage's composition 4'33" consists of 273 seconds (four minutes and 33 seconds) of silence, in three movements. Strawberry
274The Simpsons Season 13 Episode 5, The Blunder Years, is the 274th of this iconic series. The family visit a restaurant where a hypnotist puts Homer in a trance. Zebra57
275275 is the number of partitions of 28 in which no part occurs only once. Strawberry
276SurveyUSA interviewed 600 registered voters in each of the 50 US states on 03/06/2008 in advance of the Presidential election, a total of 30,000 interviews. They predicted that if John McCain faced Hillary Clinton, Clinton would win 276 to 262. (In fact the contest was between McCain and Barack Obama.) Riddley
277277 is a Perrin number. Strawberry
278On 23 August 2021, there were 278 Covid patients in hospital beds in Wales. Zebra57
279279 is the maximum number of 8th powers needed to sum to any number. Strawberry
280Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Piano Sonata No.2 in F Major, KV280, in Munich in 1774. Sylvia
281281 is the sum of the first 14 primes. Strawberry
282The M25 is not a complete circle. The section of the London Orbital across the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge is actually the A282. tetsabb
283On the first day of the fifth Test Match between England and Australia at the Oval in July 2023, England were bowled out for 283. Ed.
284Under the Whyte notation, a 2-8-4 is a steam locomotive that has two unpowered leading wheels, followed by eight coupled and powered driving wheels, and four trailing wheels. Strawberry
285In August 2023 the demolition of a former factory site in Apley, Shropshire, was completed to make way for a 285-home residential development. Ed.
286The Lockheed model 286 was an experimental helicopter that demonstrated the "rigid rotor" concept which allows modern helicopters to be more agile and yet more stable (especially at high speeds) whilst massively reducing the complexity of the rotor head. Unfortunately although they certified it as a civil helicopter then didn't manage to sell any, as is often the way with ground-breaking technologies. PDR
287Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale setting for 4 voices "Dank sei Gott in der Höhe", BWV287, was composed in 1725 or before but not published until 1787. Sylvia
288288 is the smallest non-palindrome non-square that when multiplied by its reverse is a square (288 x 882 = 254016 = 5042). Strawberry
289There are 289 calories in 50 grams of almonds. Chris.H
290There are 290 spaces in the National Theatre car park. Ed.
291291 is the commonly known name of an internationally famous art gallery that was located in Midtown Manhattan at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917. There was also a journal named after the gallery. Strawberry
292The Route 292 bus in London runs between Colindale and Borehamwood. Sylvia
293U-293 German U-boat was launched on 30th July 1943. It carried out six patrols before being surrendered at Loch Eriboll, Scotland on 11 May 1945, and was eventually scuttled on 13 Dec, 1945 in position 55.50N, 10.05W (off the NW coast of Ireland). Spoilt Victorian
294No.294 Squadron was an air-sea rescue squadron that served in the eastern Mediterranean from 1943 until 1945 and then in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea. The squadron was formed on 24 September 1943 around an existing air-sea rescue flight, and inherited the older unit's Walruses and Wellingtons. At first it operated from Libya, Cyprus and Palestine, but detachments were posted to Greece after the Germans withdrew. A number of Vickers Warwicks arrived in November 1944 and these aircraft were used for a mix of air-sea rescue and anti-submarine warfare duties. At its peak the squadron operated nine Walruses and about twenty-five Wellingtons and Warwicks. In June 1945 the squadron moved to Basra, and provided air-sea rescue cover over the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. It was disbanded on 8 April 1946. Spoilt Victorian
295In 2011 there was an increase of 295 tigers in India, according to the second all-India tiger population estimation study, carried out in the designated 39 tiger reserves across the country. The population was estimated at 1706, up from 1411 when they were counted previously. Spoilt Victorian
296The Thames Path is a National Trail, opened in 1996, following the length of the River Thames from its source near Kemble in Gloucestershire to the Thames Barrier at Charlton. It is about 184 miles (296 km) long. Sylvia
297297 is a Kaprekar number: 2972 = 88209, and 88 + 209 = 297. Ed.
298Sö 298 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Uringe Malm, which is about four kilometres west of Väländan, Stockholm County, Sweden, in the historic province of Södermanland. Strawberry
299The year 299 (Julian calendar) was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Valerius (or, less frequently, year 1052 Ab urbe condita). 'yorz
300The 300 is the name given to the Spartans who fought to the death at the Battle of Thermopylae (although two were sent away prior to the battle and survived, Aristodemus and Pantites). Strawberry

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