Sunday, July 16, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 6001-6100

6001: The A6001 takes the route of the former A1 (Great North Road) through Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. (GuyBarry)
6002: In September 2011 an new world record for the most participants at a Mongolian wrestling tournament was set, with a total of 6,002 competitors. (Big Martin)
6003: Dan McLaughlin of Portland, Oregon spent 6003 hours trying to be a professional golfer, but never achieved his goal. (GuyBarry)
6004: The LMS Locomotive Trust plans a new build of "Claughton" 4-6-0 steam locomotive 6004 Princess Louise. (Big Martin)
6005: 6005 aluminium alloy is an alloy in the wrought aluminium-magnesium-silicon family. (GuyBarry)
6006: IGI 6006 is a paraffin-soy blend wax for container candles. (Big Martin)
6007: Bridge No. L6007 is a single-span stone arch bridge on Skyline Parkway where it crosses Stewart Creek at the Smithville neighbourhood in the southwestern part of the city of Duluth, Minnesota. (GuyBarry)
6008: The Southport FC stadium at Haig Avenue (now known as the Merseyrail Community Stadium) holds 6,008 people. (Big Martin)
6009: Anyone who was around in the year 1961 may have noticed that the year number looked the same when turned upside-down. It won't happen again until the year 6009; that's the first strobogrammatic number after 1961. (GuyBarry)
6010: City and Guilds qualification 6010 is Theatrical and Media Makeup. (Big Martin)
6011: The power demand in Delhi peaked at 6011 megawatts on May 29 this year, as the maximum temperature rose to over 43 degrees Celsius. (GuyBarry)
6012: In 2013 Ron Sarchian set a world record by kicking a pad 6,012 times in an hour. (Big Martin)
6013: The 6013 is a type of stick welding rod (or electrode), demonstrated in this video. (GuyBarry)
6014: 6014 is the postcode for Wembley - the one in Perth, Western Australia. (Big Martin)
6015: 6015 British tourists were arrested overseas during 2011, according to Foreign Office figures. (GuyBarry)
6016: In 2011 Niek Vermeulen's collection of 6,016 airline sickbags set a world record. (Big Martin)
6017: In a referendum held in Guernsey on changing the island's voting system, held in October last year, 6017 voters backed the winning option of changing from a district system to a single island-wide constituency. (See also #5448.) (GuyBarry)
6018: 6018North is an experimental art venue in Chicago. (Big Martin)
6019: St Vitus's Church is located at 6019 Lausche Avenue in the St. Clair-Superior neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. (Ed.)
6020: The Review of the Year 1866 gave the velocity of a signal through the transatlantic cable as 6,020 miles per second. (Big Martin)
6021: "When 6021 Met 4267" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of Disney Channel's That's So Raven, originally aired on August 18, 2006. (GuyBarry)
6022: Ryanair flight FR6022 flies from Bristol to Bezieres every couple of days. (Big Martin)
6023: The restored 1920s steam locomotive 6023 King Edward II was launched at Didcot Railway Centre in 2011. (GuyBarry)
6024: Another King class GWR locomotive still in existence is 6024 King Edward I, which is currently being overhauled for mainline operation at the West Somerset Railway's depot. (Big Martin)
6025: There are 6025 petals of the Flower of Life after the 45th iteration. (For an illustration see here.) (GuyBarry)
6026: The Agnus Church Supplies wall mounted tabernacle 6026 costs a mere £3,095.13. (Big Martin)
6027: Department for Education data shows 5352 of the 6027 secondary school applicants in North Yorkshire received an offer for their first-choice school for the academic year 2019/20 - a rate of 89%. Good news? Not for the Scarborough News, which headlined it as "Hundreds of area's children miss out on first-choice school". (GuyBarry)
6028: Independence Rock on the Emigrant Trail in Wyoming stands 6,028 feet above sea level. The name derives from it being desirable to reach there by July 4th so that the wagon trains would reach their destination before the mountain snowfalls. (Big Martin)
6029: The population density of Tokyo is 6029 people per square kilometre (2013 figures). (GuyBarry)
6030: This is a photograph of the balcony of cabin 6030 on the Cunard cruise ship Queen Elizabeth. (Big Martin)
6031: At around 300 feet long, the A6031 on the northern edge of Wakefield was one of the shortest A-roads when numbers were originally allocated in 1922. It no longer exists, having become part of the A650. (GuyBarry)
6032: Seabourn cruise 6032 is an 8-day "Iberian and Moroccan Quest" in May 2020. (Big Martin)
6033: 6033 Irish horses were slaughtered for food in 2015, mostly ending up in Italy, Holland and Belgium. (Ed.)
6034: In April 2019 6,034 Amazon employees demanded a company climate change plan. (Big Martin)
6035: 6035 = (1 x 55) + (2 x 45) + (3 x 35) + (4 x 25) + (5 x 15). (GuyBarry)
6036: Decca 78 rpm record 6036 from 1942 is How Low Do The Blues Want To Go by the wonderfully named Denver Darling and His Texas Cowhands. (Big Martin)
6037: (6037) 1988 EG is an eccentric, stony asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid. On 27 February 2041, it will pass 0.02437 AU (3,646,000 km) from Earth. (GuyBarry)
6038: This is an 8-minute exposure of Supernova 1999cc in Galaxy NGC6038. (Big Martin)
6039: At her death in 1981, at the age of ninety-two, Elizabeth Frances Gamble, granddaughter of the co-founder of Procter and Gamble, left her house and garden to the City of Palo Alto, California. The three-storey house and carriage house was originally constructed by C. A. Bates in 1902 at a cost of $6039. (GuyBarry)
6040: The Flytec 6040 is a combination instrument designed for ballooning. (Big Martin)
6041: The Historia belli sacri (History of the Holy War) is a chronicle of the First Crusade written by an anonymous monk of the Abbey of Montecassino, some time after 1131. A second fragment of the Historia belli sacri was discovered in Latin manuscript 6041 A of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (GuyBarry)
6042: Beyer Peacock 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratt articulated locomotive 6042 was the last steam locomotive in NSWGR revenue service. It is now stored in Forbes NSW awaiting funds to be raised to transfer it elsewhere. (Big Martin)
6043: In April 2018, the English heptathlete Niamh Emerson competed in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, where she won the bronze medal with a personal best of 6043 points. (GuyBarry)
6044: Long Ashton, just outside the Bristol boundary, had a population of 6,044 at the 2011 census. (Big Martin)
6045: Shade 45 is Eminem's hip-hop music station, broadcasting to the US and Canada on Sirius XM Radio channel 45 and Dish Network channel 6045. (GuyBarry)
6046: USATC locomotive 6046 was built by Baldwins in Philadelphia for use in France. It then went to Hungary, before being brought to Britain for restoration. (Big Martin)
6047: 6047 is the smaller of two consecutive primes whose sum is a square: 6047 + 6053 = 12100 = 1102. (GuyBarry)
6048: The Gov.UK export health certificate 6048 is required to supply animal based fire fighting foam to Taiwan. (Big Martin)
6049: The former Millers Dale Station, which closed in 1967, is situated at the west end of the viaduct that crosses the B6049 in the Derbyshire Peak District. The station's name was immortalized as "Millers Dale for Tideswell" in the introduction to the Flanders and Swann song Slow Train. (GuyBarry)
6050: Amazon market the Doro 6050 phone as "for seniors". I'm I going to have to get one when I reach 65 in September. (Big Martin)
6051: In July 2019 almost the entire city of Kagoshima in Japan was evacuated after heavy rains threatened landslides and other damage. More than one million people were advised to evacuate in total, and evacuation orders were issued to 6051 people in 2859 households in Kagoshima Prefecture. (GuyBarry)
6052: A Bristol 407 car with the chassis number 407-6052 was put up for auction in 2018. It is one of 88 made and only 6 of which are still UK registered. (Big Martin)
6053: The highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway - south of Waynesville, near Mount Pisgah in North Carolina - is 6053 feet above sea level on Richland Balsam at milepost 431. (GuyBarry)
6054: The West Australia Railway Transport Museum is at 35 Old Perth Road, Bassendean, WA6054. (Big Martin)
6055: John Metcalf, known as "Blind Jack of Knaresborough", was the first professional road builder to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Despite being blinded at the age of six, he was responsible for building about 180 miles of turnpike road in the late 18th century. His career began in 1765 with a contract to build a three-mile section of road between Minskip and Ferrensby in North Yorkshire, now part of the A6055. (GuyBarry)
6056: AnatomyStuff item 6056 is a flexible foot and ankle skeleton model. (Big Martin)
6057: Where can you find High Wycombe next to Maida Vale? Needless to say in Perth, Western Australia, where they're both in postcode area 6057. (GuyBarry)
6058: The book Never Split The Difference apparently saved Paul Green £6,058 in one week this year. (Big Martin)
6059: "Clever children are twice as likely to smoke cannabis as teenagers due to their curious minds." That's how the Telegraph reported the conclusions of a nine-year survey by University College London, published in 2017, of more than 6059 young people from 838 state and 52 public schools across England. (GuyBarry)
6060: 6060 is a video project by Houston Fryer comprising of 30 food commercial shown back to back. (Big Martin)
6061: There are 6061 squares with at most nine digits and first digit 1. (The list starts 1, 16, 100, 121, 144, 169, 196, 1024, ... and finishes with 199,996,164.) (GuyBarry)
6062: In 2017 a Rolex 6062 watch owned by the last emperor of Vietnam sold for £3.95 million. (Big Martin)
6063: In 2015, a record number of 6063 manatees were tallied in Florida's annual survey of the endangered marine mammals. (GuyBarry)
6064: In April 2019 Wolverhampton Wanderers broke a 6,064 premier league game record by not committing a single foul in a game against Brighton and Hove Albion. (Big Martin)
6065: Northside Tower is a nine-storey, mid-rise office building located at 6065 Roswell Road in downtown Sandy Springs, a northern suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. It serves as an unofficial landmark for the centre of Sandy Springs. (GuyBarry)
6066: The National 6066 GMC Truck Club is for owners of 1960 to 1966 GMC trucks. (Big Martin)
6067: Tall Pines golf club near Bristol first opened in 1989 as a par 70, 6067-yard course. (GuyBarry)
6068: The Seeadler (NATO Pennant No. P6068) was the first vessel in a class of fast attack craft built for the Bundesmarine in the late 1950s. (Big Martin)
6069: You thought that Brigadoon was a mysterious Scottish village that only appears once every 100 years? Well it's actually a real place and its postcode is 6069... yes, you've guessed it, it's another suburb of Perth in Western Australia. (GuyBarry)
6070: Channel 292 is a radio station based in Germany broadcasting on 6070 kHz. (Big Martin)
6071: The very first executive order signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt on becoming US President in 1933 was Order 6071, which ensured that August Gennerich would be able to resume his position as Roosevelt's bodyguard immediately. (GuyBarry)
6072: Seat have a story on their website of running an electric touring car in the mountains of Andorra earlier this year under the headline A 6,072-cell battery at -10 degrees. (Big Martin)
6073: During 2014, ISIS (otherwise known as Islamic State) is believed to have killed 6073 people - but was overtaken by Boko Haram as the world's deadliest terrorist organization. (GuyBarry)
6074: BD6074 is a crane barge operated by Keynvor MorLift Ltd. (Big Martin)
6075: Finding facts for this game can sometimes be a "slog", but not this time - just type 6075 into a calculator and turn it upside-down! (GuyBarry)
6076: Sherwin-Williams paint colour SW6076 is Turkish Coffee. (Big Martin)
6077: 6077 = 442 +452 + 462. (GuyBarry)
6078: Standard ISO 6078:1982 is for vocabulary applicable to the processing and assessing of black tea. (Big Martin)
6079: Winston Smith, the lead character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, is referred to as "6079 Smith W" whenever he appears in front of a telescreen. (GuyBarry)
6080: The Admiralty measured mile or British nautical mile is 6,080 feet. (Big Martin)
6081: A total of 6081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth Games Associations participated in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. (GuyBarry)
6082: In May 2016 a 6,082 foot pizza broke the record for the World's Longest Pizza. (Big Martin)
6083: The former New Zealand cricket captain Brendon McCullum ended his one-day international career in February 2016 with 6083 runs. (GuyBarry)
6084: Document BCC/F/E/6084 is an ancient lease from Bristol Corporation for property on Horse Street in 1693 held by Bristol Archives. (Big Martin)
6085: The Route Napoléon is the route taken by Napoleon in 1815 on his return from Elba to Grenoble. It is now concurrent with sections of routes N85, D1085, D4085, and D6085. (GuyBarry)
6086: Rolladen-Schneider LS6-a glider registration D-6086 was written off in a crash at the Colle del Lys in Italy in March 2019. (Big Martin)
6087: In January this year, Dawn Lancaster of Macclesfield in Cheshire - who has multiple sclerosis - won a court battle to claim £6087 a year in personal independence payments after her disability living allowance was stopped. (GuyBarry)
6088: 6088AD is a CG art project by Cornelius Daemmrich. (Big Martin)
6089: One man died and 23 people were injured when a minibus overturned on the A6089 in the Scottish Borders last December, between Carfraemill and Gordon. (GuyBarry)
6090: The Manhattan Bridge is 6,090 feet long. (Big Martin)
6091: 6091 is prime - and when you turn it upside-down you get another prime, 1609. Such numbers are sometimes called invertible primes. (GuyBarry)
6092: Bostik 6092 Neoprene Adhesive is a rubber and leather glue for the shoe repair trade. (Big Martin)
6093: The Grand Canyon in Arizona reaches a depth of 6093 feet. (GuyBarry)
6094: The LBT 6094 is a modular plate carrier. A bit of modern military dress rather than a device for carrying things you might eat your dinner off. (Big Martin)
6095: In the UK as a whole, 6095 people were diagnosed with HIV in 2015. (GuyBarry)
6096: In 2016 a Hyundai ix35 hydrogen powered car set a new distance record of 6,096 miles for that type of fuel source. (Big Martin)
6097: In September 2018, two new particles known as bottom baryons were discovered at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: Σb(6097)+, consisting of two up quarks and one bottom quark; and Σb(6097)-, consisting of two down quarks and one bottom quark. A third particle called a "tetraquark" may also have been detected. (GuyBarry)
6098: The U6098 is a road in Cornwall - and also one in Northumberland. (Big Martin)
6099: The University of Manchester self-catered accommodation can range in price from £3915 to £6099 a year. (GuyBarry)
6100: LMS 4-6-2 steam locomotive 6100 Royal Scot was built in 1927 and is now mainline certified and continuing an interesting history. (Big Martin)

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