Monday, August 7, 2023

The Quite Incredible Number List: 2501-2600

2501: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 propliner operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 on board made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in American history at the time. (Strawberry)
2502: The World War 2 German submarine U2502 was captured in Oslo. Initially it was intended it would be used for tests by the Royal Navy, problems with the electric motors, however, condemned it to being scuttled as part of Operation Deadlight. (Big Martin)
2503: The Lego promotional luxury limited edition set Hilton Paris Opera Hotel has 2503 pieces. (AlmondFacialBar)
2504: There were 2504 inmates on Death Row on the US in April 2021. (Ed.)
2505: In the 2006 US science-fiction comedy film Idiocracy, Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson) wakes up in the year 2505 after a botched experiment, to discover a dystopian society run by corporations where everyone has evolved to become stupid. (Ed.)
2506: Brigade 2506 (Brigade Asalto 2506) was the name given to a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro. They carried out the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion landings in Cuba on the 17th of April, 1961. (Strawberry)
2507: Dublin Bus stop 2507 is a northbound stop on East Wall Road, Dublin 3, and services the 3 Arena (formerly the O2, formerly the Point) with the 747 Airlink and the 151 running from the Dublin Docklands to the western commuter suburbs, servicing all the big digital and financial companies along the way. The stop is about a 20 minutes' walk from here and the next bus to stop there is a 747 to the airport. (AlmondFacialBar)
2508: 2508 at scotlandguides.org is about the Café at The Scottish Parliament. (Strawberry)
2509: LNER locomotive 2509 was an A4 class streamlined Pacific; the same class as world steam speed record holder Mallard. It was named Silver Link; one of 4 "Silver" named locomotives intended to haul the streamlined Silver Jubilee Kings Cross to Newcastle express trains. (Big Martin)
2510: The Business Office address for the Cleveland Film Festival is 2510, Market Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113-3434. (Strawberry)
2511: DL 2511 is a lunchtime commuter flight between Atlanta, GA, and Birmingham, AL, and back. It's flown on an A 319 and also operates under Alaska Airlines and Virgin Atlantic codes. (AlmondFacialBar)
2512: 2512 is a monthly news magazine published in Réunion. Its name refers to the size in square kilometres of this French overseas department, which is located in the Indian Ocean. (Strawberry)
2513: If you start with 1, 0, 0 and continue, with each term being the sum of the terms two and three places behind it, you'll get:
1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 28, 37, 49, 65, 86, 114, 151, 200, 265, 351, 465, 616, 816, 1081, 1432, 1897, 2513
The numbers count the ways of expressing n as the sums of 2s and 3s where different arrangements of the same terms are counted as different. Like the ways of grouping the beats of an n-beat bar into groups of 2 and 3. With 9, there are 5 ways: 3+3+3, 3+2+2+2, 2+3+2+2, 2+2+3+2, 2+2+2+3. With 31, there are 2513 ways. (WordLover)
2514: Irton Peak is Hill number 2514 on hill-bagging.co.uk. (Strawberry)
2515: Bulleid brake carriage No. 2515 was built by British Railways in 1951 to a Southern Railway design. It is now at the Bluebell Railway awaiting a major overhaul. (Big Martin)
2516: UN haz mat number 2516 stands for carbon tetrabromide. (AlmondFacialBar)
2517: At Crows Nest, Ashton Road, Wigan, WN5 7XY, a typical floor is 2517 sq ft and the building size is 2517 sq ft. (Strawberry)
2518: In the KJV of the Bible Psalm 25:18 is: "Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins." (AlmondFacialBar)
2519: AA 2519 is an aluminium alloy principally containing copper (5.3-6.4%) as an alloying element. It also contains 0.25% silicon, 0.30% iron, 0.10-0.50% manganese, 0.05-0.40% magnesium, 0.10% zinc, 0.02-0.10% titanium, 0.15% vanadium, 0.10-0.25% zirconium, 0.40% silicon-iron compounds, and up to 0.15% trace elements. The density of 2519 aluminium is 2 820 kg. It was first registered in 1985, in the United States. (Strawberry)
2520: 2520 is the lowest positive integer which is divisible by every positive integer up to 10:
2520 = 1 x 2520 = 2 x 1260 = 3 x 840 = 4 x 630 = 5 x 504 = 6 x 420 = 7 x 360 = 8 x 315 = 9 x 280 = 10 x 252
(WordLover)
2521: Postcode 2521 in New South Wales is reserved for non-standard use. (Big Martin)
2522: 2522 = 2 x 13 x 97 is the product of three primes, but more interestingly it's the start of a longer sequence of numbers, each the product of three primes:
2523 = 3 x 29 x 29
2524 = 2 x 2 x 631
2525 = 5 x 5 x 101
2526 = 2 x 3 x 421
2527 = 7 x 19 x 19
(WordLover)
2523: UL 2523 is a safety standard for solid fuel heating appliances. (AlmondFacialBar)
2524: Turn your popcorn into frosted blue raspberry flavour popcorn with the Gold Medal 2524 Blue Raspberry Glaze Pop. (Strawberry)
2525: In the Year 2525 is a 1969 hit song by Zager and Evans. ('yorz)
2526: Armada 2526 is a 4X science fiction computer strategy game. (Big Martin)
2527: The rabbit monoclonal antibody 2527 is used to detect the human p53 tumour suppressor protein. (AlmondFacialBar)
2528: The Construck Prima 2528.K is a tipper truck built for off-road mining applications. (Big Martin)
2529: Matthew 25.29 sounds like current government policy: "For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." (tetsabb)
2530: "Reducing Bush". "Male threads". Thought this might be a razor or pair of trimming scissors but is in fact one of these. (bemahan)
2531: Issue 2531 of The Lancet was published on March 2 1872. (Big Martin)
2532: 2532 = 2222 + 55 + 33 + 222. (WordLover)
2533: The Engelbrechts Kevi 2533 is an office chair designed by Jorgen Rasmussen. (Big Martin)
2534: 2534 = 2 x (35 + 45), i.e. 2 times the sum of the 5th powers of 3 and 4. (WordLover)
2535: Cafe 25:35 is in Buckeye, Arizona and takes its name from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew. (Big Martin)
2536: Between 25362 = 6431296 and 25372 = 6436369 are two quite interesting numbers: 1863 = 6434856 and 235 = 6436343. (2536 is the 4th smallest integer where between its square and the next square up lie two numbers, each of which is a power of an integer.) (WordLover)
2537: The Russian vessel Amur 2537 is currently on course for Grimsby. (Big Martin)
2538: Empire Cinema in Newcastle has 2538 seats. (Strawberry)
2539: New South Wales postcode 2539 is an area of New Country West. (Big Martin)
2540: U-2540 "Wilhelm Bauer" is a German WW2 submarine. Launched at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg in January 1945 she never saw battle and was sunk off Kiel by her own crew on 4th May, 1945. As the boat had some innovative technology on board she was salvaged in 1957, refurbished and used as an experimental craft for testing new propulsion systems by the Federal German Navy from 1960 to 1970. In 1970 she changed hands again to the German Institute for Defense Technology and was crewed with civilians for further experimental use until 1980 when a collision with a German Fletcher Class destroyer, the former USS Wadsworth, put an end to her active career (the also damaged destroyer was given to the Greek navy). After being officially decommissioned she was sold on to the German Museum of Shipping in 1983 and refurbished for museum use locally, at Seebeck shipyard. She was brought to Bremerhaven's Old Port in 1984 and has been moored there as a technical museum ever since. (AlmondFacialBar)
2541: 2541 is the first solo EP from Grant Hart, formerly of the band Hüsker Dü. (bemahan)
2542: Here are some reviews of GT 2542 tractors. (Strawberry)
2543: 2543 V is the pill identifier of Clonidin Hydrochloride, a hypertension drug. (AlmondFacialBar)
2544: A link for Empire and Espionage (Hardback) Spies in the Zulu War by Stephen Wade, includes the number 2544. (Strawberry)
2545: 2545 = 2545 (in base 9) + 2545 (in base 6). (WordLover)
2546: H.R. 2546 was a 'firearm risk of protection' from the US Congress of 2015. (Awitt)
2547: NGC 2547 is a southern open cluster in Vela, discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa. (Strawberry)
2548: The 2548 Group's website covers the history of a preserved Guy Arab 1950 bus that was operated by Birmingham City Transport. (Big Martin)
2549: This table gives the weather forecast for Mount Saint Helens at the specific elevation of 2549 m. (Strawberry)
2550: The Regal boat model 2550 is a pleasure cruiser that can accommodate eight people in its cabins. (AlmondFacialBar)
2551: German submarine U-2551 was a type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. The Elektroboote submarine was laid down on the 8th of December at the Blohm & Voss yard at Hamburg, launched on the 31st of March, 1945, and commissioned on the 24th of April, 1945 under the command of Kapitanleutnant Gerhard Schaar. (Strawberry)
2552: War memorial 2552 on the IWM's list is at St Mary the Virgin church in West Derby, Liverpool. (Big Martin)
2553: Austral Lineas Aéreas Flight 2553, also known as Austral 2553, was a domestic scheduled Posadas-Buenos Aires service operated with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that crashed on the lands of Estancia Magallanes, Nuevo Berlin, 32 kilometres (20 miles) away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on the 10th of October, 1997. All 74 passengers and crew died after the impact. The accident remains the deadliest in Uruguayan history. (Strawberry)
2554: In November 2015 the playschool in Naíonra na nDúnaibh, Co. Donegal, was granted €2554 by the Minister of State for Gaeltacht Affairs, Joe McHugh, to help refurbish its playground. (AlmondFacialBar)
2555: Phonon 2555 is a live album by Susumu Hirasawa. It contains recordings of the Phonon 2555 shows from 2012, part of the "Phonon" series of Hirasawa concerts. The number on the title represents the year of the performance on the Thai solar calendar. (Strawberry)
2556: In Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry 2556 is the Greek word κακός (kakos) meaning "bad, evil". (bemahan)
2557: Here's a link to an article about a man that ran 2557 miles across Australia. With a wheelbarrow. (Strawberry)
2558: The Pharoah Khafra (or Khephren) is estimated to have ruled from c2558 to c2532 BCE. His is the second pyramid at Giza and the Sphinx has his face. (Big Martin)
2559: A link about the 1965 film Routine Adventure, includes the number 2559. (Strawberry)
2560: There are 2560 states in the planning domain FERRY with 8 cars. The ferry sails between 2 ports and can carry 1 car. (Each car can be at either of the ports: this means 256 possibilities. If the ferry has a car on, there are 8 possibilities for which car is on it; if not, there are 2 ports the ferry can be at. Thus 256 x (8+2) = 2560.) (WordLover)
2561: Reports in March 2016 showed that 2,561 people were still missing from the tsunami that struck Japan in 2011. (Big Martin)
2562: Dave Huismans, better known by his stage name as 2562, is a musician from The Hague, Netherlands. (bemahan)
2563: 2563 is the callsign of the Su Qi Yu, a Chinese registered fishing vessel. (AlmondFacialBar)
2564: The 2564 Balebuster is a Bale Processor. (bemahan)
2565: The phone number for The Barber Shop in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, is 028 2565 6660. (Strawberry)
2566: NNZ-2566 is an experimental drug for the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders and traumatic brain injury. (AlmondFacialBar)
2567: On Walking Britain, Walk 2567 is about Lyme Park & Dissop Head from Disley. (Strawberry)
2568: Jalie 2568 is a women's underwear pattern for a camisole and three styles of panties. (Big Martin)
2569: Kanjavec is a 2,569-metre (8,428-foot) mountain in the centre of Triglav Mountain Park. It lies between the Dolic Pass at 2,164 m, the Hribarice Pass at 2,306 m and the Prehodaci Pass at 2,071 m. Kanjavec is also a popular ski resort destination. (Strawberry)
2570: 2570 is the part no. for a Lego crossbow. (bemahan)
2571: 2571 Geisei, provisional designation 1981 UC, is a smaller asteroid in the asteroid belt discovered on the 23rd of October, 1981 by astronomer Tsutomi Seki at Geisei Observatory in the Kochi Prefecture of Japan. (Strawberry)
2572: There are 2572 partitions of 35 where there are at least two equal largest parts and they are at least 2. (WordLover)
2573: Winco product 2573 is a padded blood drawing chair. (Big Martin)
2574: Continental Express Flight 2574 (Jetlink 2574) was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo International Airport in Laredo, Texas, to Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas. On the 11th of September, 1991, the Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, registered N33701, crashed while the turboprop aircraft was en route to Houston, killing all 14 people on board. The aircraft wreckage hit an area near Eagle Lake, Texas, which is located approximately 65 miles (105 km) west-southwest of IAH. (Strawberry)
2575: Walk 2575 from Walking Britain is around Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove. (Big Martin)
2576: 2576 in base 7 is 10340, and in base 5 is 40301 -- an anagram of that. And also another anagram, 00431, in base 25 if you don't mind leading zeroes. (WordLover)
2577: 2577 Litva, provisional designation EE3, is a Hungarian-type Mars crosser and rare trinary asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 4 kilometres in diameter. It was discovered on the 12th of March, 1975, by Soviet-Ukranian astronomer Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean Peninsula. (Strawberry)
2576: South West Airlines flight 2576 operates daily between Baltimore Washington International and Kansas City Int'l. (tetsabb)
2577: The Rammer 2577 is capable of 450 to 750 blows a minute. (Big Martin)
2578: 2578 Saint-Exupery, provisional designation 1975 VW3, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, roughly 22 kilometres in diameter. It was discovered by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj on the 2nd of November, 1975. (Strawberry)
2579: Southern Pacific locomotive 2579 was built in 1906 and is now at the Veterans Memorial Park in Klamath, Oregon. (Big Martin)
2580: 2580 is a short film from 2015. (Strawberry)
2581: "2581=?" is a puzzle game on Android. (vanjeet)
2582: Pantone Coated 2582 C is a purplish colour. (Big Martin)
2583: The first 16 Fibonacci numbers add up to 2583:
1+1+2+3+5+8+13+21+34+55+89+144+233+377+610+987=2583
(WordLover)
2584: The USS Hydraulic bore the pennant number SP 2584 and was a private steam yacht acquired as a section patrol boat in New York harbour in 1918 - 1919. (Big Martin)
2585: One of the addresses used in the 2014 film Boyhood, is 2585, Park Road 6026. (Strawberry)
2586: USS Oosterdijk (ID-2586) was a United States cargo ship in commission in 1918. (Strawberry)
2587: ORPHA2587 is a classification for myeloperoxidase deficiency. (Big Martin)
2588: Ranch to Market Road 2588 (RM 2588) is a ranch to market road in Henderson County, Texas. (Strawberry)
2589: The Garmin nuvi 2589LMT is (unsurprisingly) a Satnav. (Big Martin)
2590: 2590 Mourao, provisional designation 1980 kJ, is a rocky vestoid asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 7 kilometres in diameter. It was discovered on the 22nd of May, 1980, by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. (Strawberry)
2591: Sofa suite 2591 is made by Decor-Rest of Canada. (Big Martin)
2592: 2592 = 25 x 92. (WordLover)
2593: The Sumida M.2593 was an armoured car produced in 1930s Japan that was capable of negotiating roads as well as railtracks of different gauges. (AlmondFacialBar)
2594: On Walking Britain, Walk 2594 is in Totridge Fell & Fiendsale Head, Forest of Bowland. (Strawberry)
2595: Episode 2595 of Sesame Street was brought to you by the letters I and V and the number 13. It was first aired on April 21 1989. (Big Martin)
2596: The Indiana Women's Prison is at 2596, Girls School Road, former location of the Indianapolis Juvenile Correctional Facility. (Strawberry)
2597: 7T2597-7 is the Runout code of the Bulgarian ZZ Top compilation The Best of Blues. (AlmondFacialBar)
2598: 2426-2598 South Tamiami is in Sarasota, Florida. (Strawberry)
2599: US Congress Bill S.2599 from 25-Feb-2016 concerns itself with truth in hotel advertising. (AlmondFacialBar)
2600: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly is an American publication that specialises in publishing technical information on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer "underground". (Strawberry)

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