7001: Zone 7 of the Great Britain road numbering system, in south-west Scotland, is the smallest of all, but still contains a number of four-digit B-roads, such as the B7001 in north Lanarkshire, running between Birkenshaw and Bellshill. (Brock)
7002: 7002 is a steam engine built for the Pennsylvania railroad. (Awitt)
7003: According to 1992 figures, the average American travels 7003 miles in buses during their lifetime. (Brock)
7004: The modern circuit used since 2007 at Spa-Francorchamps race track is 7,004 metres long. (Big Martin)
7005: The total prize money paid to the top 20 riders in the new Paris-Roubaix women's cycle race is €7005, compared with €91,000 for the long-established men's race. (Brock)
7006: 7006 Squadron RAuxAF provides intelligence personnel to support the RAF. (Big Martin)
7007: Daniel Craig was honoured in October 2021 with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - appropriately enough at 7007 Hollywood Boulevard. (He is the 7th actor to portray 007 in film, including David Niven.) (Brock)
7008: RAL 7008 comes under graugrün in its native German and khaki green in English. From where I'm standing it looks largely like a shade of brown probably best discussed in the presence of a medical professional. (AlmondFacialBar)
7009: In late 2020, the independent research firm Opinium polled 7009 people across the UK on behalf of the National Lottery Community Fund to find out their attitudes towards their communities during the pandemic. Amongst other findings, 53% said that "a crisis usually brings out the best in people". (Brock)
7010: ISO 7010 is a technical standard for hazard symbols on signs. (Big Martin)
7011: In October 2021, the B7011 in Lanarkshire formed part of the diversion route for the closure of the A71 Horsley Brae for works by Scottish Water. (Brock)
7012: The vehicle with the UK registration 7012 HN was a Bristol/Eastern Coach Works bus built in 1962. (Big Martin)
7013: Virgin TV error code 7013 means "there is a problem with the connection". You are advised to reboot your TV box by switching it off and on again. (Brock)
7014: Here is an article on the uses of 7014 welding rod. (Big Martin)
7015: Australian postcodes beginning with 7 are in Tasmania. 7015 belongs to Lindisfarne (named after the island in Northumberland), which is a suburb of Hobart's Eastern Shore. (Brock)
7016: The single Do The Stanley by Bristol-based band Stackridge was released in the Netherlands as MCS 7016. (Big Martin)
7017: The largest prime with 1024 digits is 101024 - 7017, which when written out in full would be 999999...9999992983 with a string of 1020 9's. (Brock)
7018: 7018 is the product code for a high deposition rate iron powder electrode. (Awitt)
7019: From the beginning of the pandemic to October 2021, St George's Hospital and its associated medical school in south-west London undertook 60 Covid-19 studies, and recruited 7019 participants into trials. (Brock)
7020: Aluminium alloy 7020 is used for armoured vehicles, military bridges and motorcycle and bicycle frames. (Big Martin)
7021: According to the Government's Insolvency Service, there were on average 7021 IVAs (individual voluntary agreements) registered per month in the three-month period ending August 2021, which is 44% higher than the previous year. The IVA is a formal debt solution to pay back debts over a period of time. (Brock)
7022: Udupi Anand Sagar Vegetarian Restaurant is at Sadshill Building, State Highway 1, Opposite Thivin IDC Main Gate, Acoi, Goa. The phone number is 8322 225 7022. (Strawberry)
7023: The National Archives War History Case 7023 has reports of BC convoys Bristol Channel - Loire/Quiberon Bay September 1939 to June 1940. (Big Martin)
7024: BARB (the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board), which collects data on TV viewing in the UK, can be contacted on 020 7024 8100. (Brock)
7025: The Spacewatch programme discovered the asteroid (7025) 1993 QA on August 16th 1993. (Big Martin)
7026: 7026 is the 21st member of this sequence created by Simon Strandgaard, described as "add the same number of edges as there are leafs [sic] in the previous step". (It's probably easier to understand from the illustrations than to explain in words.) Note that it starts with 2, 3, 5, 7, 11..., so it initially mimics the prime numbers. (Brock)
7027: Castle-class loco 7027 is named Thornbury Castle and is still being restored, having been rescued from Barry in 1972. The actual Thornbury Castle is really a Tudor mansion now occupied as a hotel. (Big Martin)
7028: 7028 is another number privileged with its own Wikipedia disambiguation page (like 6479 before it). Is anyone likely to have difficulty distinguishing between the year in the 8th millennium, the locomotive Cadbury Castle, and the minor planet 7028 Tachikawa? (Brock)
7029: Icicle Ridge in Washington state has an elevation of 7,029 feet. (Big Martin)
7030: On Friday 1 October, the FTSE 100 index fell 56 points, or 0.8%, to 7030 by 10am. (Brock)
7031: The island of Zealand in Denmark has an area of 7,031 square kilometres. (Big Martin)
7032: Sweden's Carolina Klüft is the European record holder for heptathlon, with a personal best of 7032 points. (Brock)
7033: 7033 is the pill imprint of Fludrocortisone Acetate 0.1 mg, used for the management of Addison's disease. (AlmondFacialBar)
7034: Nicknamed "Black Beauty" and estimated to be two billion years old, Northwest Africa 7034 is a Martian meteorite, believed to be the second oldest yet discovered. It contains the most water of any Martian meteorite found on Earth. (Brock)
7035: The Claas Scorpion 7035 is a telehandler driven by a Deutz engine that can lift up to 3.5 tonnes and was produced from 2013 to 2017. (AlmondFacialBar)
7036: Auchinleck House, former home of Samuel Johnson's biographer James Boswell, lies just off the B7036 in east Ayrshire. (Brock)
7037: The Zeppelin 7037-3 watch is also called the LZ129 Hindenburg. Given what happened to the original Hindenburg, I hope this is what they're expecting of the watch! (Big Martin)
7038: Dublin Bus stop 7038 is Castlegrange on the Ongar Road and is served by the 39 and 39A. (AlmondFacialBar)
7039: The Kew Gardens state of the world's plants and fungi 2020 report says there are 7,039 edible plants that hold potential for future crops. (Big Martin)
7040: 7040 is the code/number for a computer tower. (Awitt)
7041: It's fairly rare for minor planets to be named after places rather than people, but 7041 Nantucket takes its name from the island in Massachusetts where the Maria Mitchell Observatory is located. (Anyone who immediately thought "There once was a man from..." is forgiven!) (Brock)
7042: The Metrix OX 7042 is a multimeter digital oscilloscope. (Big Martin)
7043: There are 7043 1's in the first 10,000 primes. (Brock)
7044: Angel number 7044 apparently means "turning your talents into work by daring the future". (AlmondFacialBar)
7045: 4 Ply Waistcoat Crochet pattern 7045. This is, as I'm sure you're all aware, yet another area of my widely - nay - ALL encompassing expertise. (Celebaelin)
7046: NGC 7046 is a barred spiral galaxy located 193 million light years away. (Awitt)
7047: A page from the New York Times of October 4th 1948 is available to order as a reprint which covers the repatriation of the bodies of 7,047 war dead by ship. (Big Martin)
7048: Volvo is recalling more than 460,000 vehicles worldwide, including 7048 in China, over an airbag defect that has been linked to one death. (Brock)
7049: Indian train 7049 runs from Hyderabad to Aurangabad - a journey of 582 km in around 14 and a half hours. (Big Martin)
7050: If you think a person or organization owes you money and won't pay it back, you can use the Government's Civil Money Claims service on 0300 123 7050 (if it's less than £10,000). (Brock)
7051: LMS diesel shunter 7051 was built by the Hunslet Engine Company in 1932 to demonstrate its wares. It is now preserved on the Middleton Railway in Leeds. (Big Martin)
7052: 7052 US troops have died in the post-9/11 wars. (Brock)
7053: The iconic photograph of Rosa Parks following her arrest after her bus protest shows her holding up the number 7053. (Big Martin)
7054: The first ever by-election to the Scottish Parliament was the Ayr by-election in March 2000. Labour had narrowly won the seat at the inaugural Scottish Parliament elections the previous year, polling 14,263 votes, but fell to third place with just 7054 votes behind the SNP and the Conservatives. (Brock)
7055: The Kobelco 7055 is a 7 ton SWL hydraulic crawler crane. (Big Martin)
7056: 7056 is a perfect square (842); according to OEIS, it's the only four-digit perfect square not containing a proper subsequence that is a positive perfect square. However, I believe that 5776 (=762) also falls into this category. (Brock)
7057: BMW Bristol 7057 is available as a touch-up paint at $29.95 for a 2 oz bottle. (Big Martin)
7058: Endless Road, 7058 is the debut studio album released by Spanish boyband Auryn. (Brock)
7059: Route 7059 is a school service operated by Kangaroo Bus Lines in South East Queensland. (Big Martin)
7060: Out of 139,779 road injuries in England in 2019, 7060 (5.1%) were as a result of drink-driving. (Brock)
7061: Proclamation 7061 was given by Bill Clinton in December 1997 to mark Wright Brothers Day. (Big Martin)
7062: Jiaolong is a Chinese crewed deep-sea research submersible with the second-greatest depth range of any crewed research vehicle in the world. On June 27 2012, it reached a depth of 7062 metres in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. (Brock)
7063: Home 7063 at Haldon Reach in Exeter is available at £339,995. (Big Martin)
7064: 7064 is the product code for this wedding dress. (Awitt)
7065: Course MECH ENG 7065 at the University of Adelaide is Naval Ship Engineering. (Big Martin)
7066: Only two A7xxx road numbers are currently in use. One of them is the A7066, a two-and-a-half-mile section of the Edinburgh-Glasgow road near Bathgate, built from 1924 to 1932 and originally numbered as the A8. Nowadays it's been mostly superseded by the M8 a short distance to the south. (Brock)
7067: The 7,067 acre Anaz Guassa Community Conservation Area is being established in Ethiopia. (Big Martin)
7068: Across Europe's top five football leagues last season, Covid-19 forced players to miss 7068 days and cost clubs €48.2 million. (Brock)
7069: LMS diesel shunter 7069 was one of a class of 10 built by English Electric in 1935. After an eventful working life, it is now being rebuilt at the Vale of Berkeley Railway's depot in Sharpness. (Big Martin)
7070: The IBM 7070 was an intermediate data processing system brought to market in 1958 as an upgrade to the 705 system with which is was unfortunately largely incompatible. (AlmondFacialBar)
7071: Boeing 707 N7071 crashed on October 19th 1959 when three of the engines were torn off following an incorrectly executed Dutch Roll. (Big Martin)
7072: 7072 is the smallest integer whose square is greater than 50,000,000. (Brock)
7073: British Museum item CIB.7073 is a £1 banknote issued by the Aberystwith (sic) & Tregaron Bank in 1813. (Big Martin)
7074: LCT 7074 is the last remaining landing craft tank in the UK. It was used in the Normandy landings in 1944, and served as a floating nightclub in Liverpool during the 60s and 70s. After that it fell into disrepair and sank in Birkenhead docks, but it was raised in 2014 and sent to Portsmouth for restoration. In June 2021, it finally re-opened to the public as part of the D-Day Story exhibition. (Brock)
7075: 7075 aluminium alloy is a high strength aerospace aluminium. (Big Martin)
7076: 7076 is the code number for this New Zealand based door company. (Awitt)
7077: Station 7077 is an electrical substation in the Hanover area. (Big Martin)
7078: The B7078 in South Lanarkshire used to be part of the A74, the main dual-carriageway route from Glasgow to Carlisle, before the M74 was built alongside. There are still substantial sections of the old dual carriageway which now form part of the B7078 - possibly one of the least-used dual carriageways in the country! (Brock)
7079: Dublin bus stop 7079 is at Ash Grove. (Big Martin)
7080: In July this year, Haryana Police seized 7080 bottles of illicit liquor being smuggled to Uttar Pradesh. According to the Times of India, they were packed in "590 cartoons" [sic]. (Brock)
7081: The West Midlands speed cameras that catch the most offenders are on Bristol Road in Birmingham - catching 7,081 speeding drivers between 2016 and 2018. (Big Martin)
7082: Minor planet 7082 is named after the city of La Serena in Chile. (Brock)
7083: IWM photograph A 7083 is of the Dutch submarine O21 entering harbour following it sinking German U-Boat U-95 in November 1941. (Big Martin)
7084: Episode 7084 of Countdown was broadcast on 28 May 2019, as part of Series 80. It was the first to feature a new numbers board for CECIL, which has a whiteboard attached rather than using paper to show the solutions. (Brock)
7085: British Standard Colour BS7085 is marine blue. (Big Martin)
7086: According to figures published by the Government last week, there were 7086 people in hospital with Covid-19. (Brock)
7087: 7087 is the code number for this emergency communication sign. (Awitt)
7088: Beatles fans may be interested in this extraordinarily detailed page about the Abbey Road album, PCS 7088, released on September 26, 1969. Someone has gone through all the minor printing changes on the album cover. I suppose it's a bit like stamp-collecting. (Brock)
7089: In his mugshot taken after the Montgomery bus boycotts, Martin Luther King wore the arrest number 7089. (AlmondFacialBar)
7090: Hidden Figures (2016) is the true story of three female African-American mathematicians working at NASA in the 1960s, who are eventually replaced by an IBM 7090 computer. (Brock)
7091: Earlier this year, props from the Harry Potter films were being auctioned to raise money for J K Rowling's charity Lumos. Included was Harry's Hogwarts acceptance letter which had a pre-sale estimate of between £5,672 and £7,091. (Big Martin)
7092: In 1960 there were 7,092 hectares of vineyards in Barossa, South Australia. (Ed.)
7093: Niko model 7093 is a 1/700 scale plastic kit of the WWII German seaplane catapult ship "Bussard". (Big Martin)
7094: A recording made at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey on an IBM 7094 mainframe computer in 1961 is the earliest known recording of a computer-synthesized voice singing a song - Daisy Bell, also known as "Bicycle Built for Two". (It was later incorporated into 2001 - A Space Odyssey.) (Brock)
7095: There are 7,095 Jobseekers Allowance claimants in the 25-49 age range in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell. (Big Martin)
7096: There are 7096 eight-digit perfect powers. (I.e. all the perfect squares, perfect cubes, fourth powers, fifth powers, etc., with eight digits.) (Brock)
7097: Lego set 7097 is a Trolls' Mountain Fortress. (Big Martin)
7098: Eric Carlson (Republican) topped the poll with 7098 votes in the November 2021 elections to the Bristol Board of Education. (That's Bristol, Connecticut of course.) (Brock)
7099: In 2018 Ian Paisley survived an attempt to oust him as an MP following an expenses scandal, when a recall petition failed to reach the 7,543 signatories required for this, being signed by only 7,099 voters. (Big Martin)
7100: This Zenith Chronomaster Original 38mm Mens Watch can be yours for only £7100 from Watches of Switzerland. (Brock)
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