201: RAF Squadron 201 currently operates the Boeing Poseidon MRA1 from RAF Lossiemouth, Moray. (Zebra57)
202: The E number of the preservative potassium sorbate is 202. (Strawberry)
203: Victoria No. 203 is a 1972 Indian Hindi-language heist comedy film produced and directed by Brij. (Zebra57)
204: 204 is the HTTP status code indicating the request was received but there is no response to the request. (Strawberry)
205: The Peugeot 205 is a supermini (B-segment) car produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1983 to 1999. (Zebra57)
206: There are 206 bones in the typical adult human body. (Strawberry)
207: 207 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number. (Zebra57)
208: 208 is the area code for Idaho. (Strawberry)
209: The Year 209AD is reckoned by many scholars to be the year that Saint Alban was martyred. (Zebra57)
210: 210 is the smallest area of two different primitive Pythagorean triangles (20, 21, 29 and 12, 35, 37). (Strawberry)
211: 211 AD the Romans designated York (Eboracum) as its northern capital. Officially Eboracum was capital of Britannia Inferior. (Zebra57)
212: 212 is a fragrance by Caroline Herrera. (Strawberry)
213: 213 was an American hip hop trio supergroup from Long Beach, California composed of Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Nate Dogg. (Ed.)
214: 214 is a song by Rivermaya. (Strawberry)
215: The famous Pigalle Club in London was at 215 Piccadilly, W1. (Zebra57)
216: 216 is 6 cubed. (Ed.)
217: In The Shining, room 217 plays a central part of the story as it is haunted. (Strawberry)
218: P218 was the designation for a 1960s British "black" project for an air-deployed covert-insertion system. It involved a a medium-sized under-wing winged pod that would be dropped from a fighter-bomber at high subsonic speeds from a height of 500 feet. The pod was intended to carry three people and a couple of hundred pounds of personal equipment and on release would climbe to a throusand feet before splitting open and releasing the contents to proceed using their own parachutes. The design requirement called for the pod to be made from "100% combustible" materials (ie materials which could be relied upon to burn completely, leaving no residue of any kind). (PDR)
219: The 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)
220: 220 is the title of a 1996 instrumental album by Phil Keaggy. (Strawberry)
221: 221b Baker Street was of course the address of a famous fictional drug addict and violin player. (PDR)
222: 222 is a song by Paul McCartney on the 2-CD edition of his 2007 album Memory Almost Full. (Strawberry)
223: Dr Dooom - Apartment 223 is a song by Kool Keith. (Zebra57)
224: In Kenya, there are 224 Members of Parliament. (Strawberry)
225: The A225 road runs from Dartford in the north to Sevenoaks in the south following the Darenth Valley in Kent, England. (Zebra57)
226: 519 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)
227: To the nearest gram, 8 ounces = 227 grams. (Zebra57)
228: The 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)
229: Rome 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 24/06/2011. (Zebra57)
232: 232 is the maximal number of regions into which 21 lines divide a plane. (Strawberry)
233: Uranium-233 is a fissile artificial isotope of uranium. (Zebra57)
234: 234 and 230 are North American telephone area codes for part of Northeast Ohio. (Strawberry)
235: 235 is a Smarandache-Wellin number, being the concatenation of the first three primes in base 10. (Ed.)
236: 236 is the number of possible positions in Othello after 2 moves by both players. (Strawberry)
237: Barbara of Baalbeck Heliopolis was martyred in 237 A.D. (Zebra57)
238: 238 is the sum of the first thirteen primes. (Strawberry)
239: Professor Dick Solomon, lead character on the TV show Third Rock from the Sun, teaches his classes in room number 239. (Zebra57)
240: The famous skit by the sketch comedy group Barry and Levon is entitled "$240 Dollars Worth of Padding". (Strawberry)
241: A "241 offer" (two-for-one offer) lets you take a friend for free. (Zebra57)
242: 242 is the area code of the Bahamas. (Strawberry)
243: .243 Winchester is a popular sporting rifle cartridge (Zebra57)
244: 244 is the smallest number (besides 2) that can be written as the sum of 2 squares or the sum of two 5th powers. (Strawberry)
245: Year 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)
246: The Dino 246 GT was the first automobile manufactured by Ferrari in high numbers. (Zebra57)
247: 247 = 50123 - 49876, and is the smallest number which can be expressed as the difference between two integers which together contain all digits 0-9. (Strawberry)
248: In Ireland in 2011, the National Disability Authority conducted a survey of 248 people with a disability to establish what extra costs they faced because of their disability. (Zebra57)
249: 249 Church of Christ is in Houston, Texas. (Riddley)
250: In 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)
251: 251 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)
253: 253 is the smallest non-trivial triangular star number. (Strawberry)
254: Shell announced it was buying 254 Total petrol stations in June 2011. (Zebra57)
255: 255 = 11111111 in base 2. (Strawberry)
256: The 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)
257: 257 is a Fermat prime. (Strawberry)
258: It is said that there were 258 bakers’ shops in Rome by the year 100BC. (Ed.)
259: 259 = 1111 in base 6. (Strawberry)
260: 260 is the maximal number of regions into which space can be divided by 10 spheres. (Zebra57)
261: 261 is the number of essentially different ways to dissect a 16-gon into 7 quadrilaterals. (Strawberry)
262: The ME 262 was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter plane. (Riddley)
263: 263 is the largest known prime whose square is strobogrammatic, i.e. appears the same upside-down (69169). (Strawberry)
264: 264BC was the date of the outbreak of the First Punic War. (Zebra57)
265: 265 is the number of derangements of 6 items, i.e. arrangements in which no element appears in its original position. (Strawberry)
266: In his WW1 stories Captain James Bigglesworth (aka "Biggles") flew a Sopwith Camel, commanding B-Flight of 266Sqn RFC. (PDR)
267: 267 is the area code for Pennsylvania. (Strawberry)
268: The Battle of Mediolanum was in 268 AD. (Zebra57)
269: UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier was a mixed martial arts event that took place on December 11, 2021. (Ed.)
270: 270 degrees is three-quarters of a circle. (Ed.)
271: 271 is the smallest prime p such that p - 1 and p + 1 are divisible by cubes. (Strawberry)
272: The brief rule of the disabled King of Persia Hormazd I was in 272 AD. (Zebra57)
273: John Cage's composition 4'33" consists of 273 seconds (four minutes and 33 seconds) of silence, in three movements. (Strawberry)
274: The 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)
275: 275 is the number of partitions of 28 in which no part occurs only once. (Strawberry)
276: SurveyUSA 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)
277: 277 is a Perrin number. (Strawberry)
278: Found on a web site called Forum Jar. "Congratulations! You have found the 278 BC Forum on Forum Jar. This forum is a place where people who are interested in 278 BC come together and discuss about 278 BC". A specialist study forum as there does not appear to have been anything of significance going on at this time! (Zebra57)
279: 279 is the maximum number of 8th powers needed to sum to any number. (Strawberry)
280: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Piano Sonata No.2 in F Major, KV280, in Munich in 1774. (Sylvia)
281: 281 is the sum of the first 14 primes. (Strawberry)
282: The M25 is not a complete circle. The section of the London Orbital across the Dartford Tunnel and QEII Bridge is actually the A282. (tetsabb)
283: On 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.)
284: 284 degrees Celsius is the flash point of paper. (Strawberry)
285: On 08/09/2011, Lancashire scored 285-7 against Hampshire. (Riddley)
286: The Lockhead 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)
287: Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale setting for 4 voices "Dank sei Gott in der Höhe", BWV287, was composed before 1751 and published over 30 years later. (Sylvia)
288: 288 is the smallest non-palindrome non-square that when multiplied by its reverse is a square (288 x 882 = 254016 = 5042). (Strawberry)
289: There are 289 calories in 50 grams of almonds. (Chris.H)
290: 290 is the bearing you should be on when taking off from Gatwick in a generally westbound direction (tetsabb)
291: 291 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)
292: The Route 292 bus in London runs between Colindale and Borehamwood. (Sylvia)
293: U-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)
294: No.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)
295: In 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)
296: The 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)
297: 297 is a Kaprekar number: 2972 = 88209, and 88 + 209 = 297. (Ed.)
298: Sö 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)
299: The 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)
300: The 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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