901: 901 Brunsia is an S-type asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its rotation period is 3.136 hours. (Strawberry)
902: 902 Music Group is an online House & Bass provider and events company. (GuyBarry)
903: Gallery 903 is an art gallery in Portland, Oregon. (Strawberry)
904: The food additive E904, otherwise known as shellac, is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. Until the 1950s it was used to make gramophone records. (GuyBarry)
905: "905" is a song written by bassist John Entwistle for The Who's eighth studio album, Who Are You. (Strawberry)
906: 906 is a strobogrammatic number (appears the same upside-down). The next lowest one is 888. Curiously, every number in the sequence 888 to 906 is composite (non-prime). This is the first occurrence of a sequence of 19 composite numbers. (GuyBarry)
907: 907 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City. (Strawberry)
908: At the age of 45 the Master Yogi Sri Dharma photographed himself in 1,350 postures. From these photos he created The Master Yoga Chart, which was later reduced to 908 postures so that it could be mailed. (GuyBarry)
909: "One After 909" (sometimes called "The One After 909" in early recordings) is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon, with input from Sir Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon-McCartney) and originally released in 1970 on the album Let It Be. The album version is the live performance from the rooftop concert which took place on 30 January 1969. This performance is also included in the Let It Be film. The song was written as early as 1957 and is one of the first Lennon-McCartney compositions. "One After 909" is also a more American rock-and-roll sounding song than any of the other songs on the rooftop show and as a joke for the rooftop chatter, Lennon sings a variant on the opening line of "Danny Boy" after the song is finished that is unable to be entirely made out. (Strawberry)
910: The author Doug Sulpy publishes a newsletter on Beatles recordings called "The 910". The name made little sense to me at first until I learned about the song mentioned above... (GuyBarry)
911: BOAC Flight 911 (Speedbird 911) was a round-the-world flight operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation that crashed near Mount Fuji, Japan, on 5 March 1966. (Strawberry)
912: In the "Homer the Great" episode of The Simpsons, Homer joins a secret organization called the Stonecutters (an obvious parody of the Freemasons), in which he is told the "real" emergency services number - 912. (The actual US emergency number is of course 911.) (GuyBarry)
913: Pennsylvania Route 913 (PA 913) is a 17.7-mile-long (28.5km) state highway located in Bedford, Huntingdon and Fulton Counties in Pennsylvania. (Strawberry)
914: The Porsche 914 was designed, manufactured and marketed collaboratively by Volkswagen and Porsche from 1969 to 1976. (GuyBarry)
915: North American area code 915 is a state of Texas telephone area code for numbers in the El Paso area. (Strawberry)
916: 916 is a 2012 Malayalam drama film, written and directed by M. Mohanan, about maintaining the sanctity of familial relationships. (GuyBarry)
917: The Porsche 917 is a racecar that gave Porsche its first overall wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971. (Strawberry)
918: The 918 Letterpress Printed Ephemera Show took place during October and November 2013 at the Samford University Art Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The name of the show was based on the fact that letterpress wood and metal type is made .918 inches tall. (GuyBarry)
919: The 919th Special Operations Wing (919 SOW) are an Air Reserve Component of the United States Air Force. (Strawberry)
920: The Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone was released on November 2nd 2012. (GuyBarry)
921: The 921 earthquake, also known as Jiji earthquake, was an 7.3M or 7.6-7.7Mw earthquake which occurred on Tuesday, 21 September 1999 in Jiji, Nantou County, Taiwan. (Strawberry)
922: 922 = 1234 in base 9. (GuyBarry)
923: Viral text claims President Obama signed 923 executive orders in the first 40 months of his presidency, many times more than any other president to date. ('yorz)
924: 924 is the sixth central binomial coefficient, which means that it appears exactly in the centre of the 12th row of Pascal's Triangle. (GuyBarry)
925: 925 is the title of a popular movie with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman, of which the eponymous title song was performed by Dollies Parton. ('yorz)
926: 926 is the Hallmark used in Italy when referring to the purity of gold. (Strawberry)
927: In August 2012 an apparent supernova was observed in galaxy NGC 927. (GuyBarry)
928: The Nokia Lumia 928 is a smartphone that is probably responsible for Windows phone OS surviving in the marketplace in the USA. (Efros)
929: The Mazda 929 was originally a mid-size car from 1973 to 1987 and as a full-size car thereafter. Marketed over three decades, the 929 was originally the export name for the Mazda Luce. When equipped with a rotary engine, it was called the Mazda RX-4 in export markets. Later, after the "Luce" name disappeared in Japan, the "929" badge was applied to the succeeding Sentia for the few export markets which received the last two generations. (Strawberry)
930: 930 is a pronic number (or rectangular number), i.e. the product of two consecutive integers (30 x 31). (GuyBarry)
931: In 931, Aethelstan held the first Council of All England in Colchester. (Strawberry)
932: The RoadVista 932 Handheld Retroreflectometer is designed to fully characterize the retroreflection and retroreflected night-time colour of road signs, high visibility safety clothing and other materials. (GuyBarry)
933: There were 933 fireworks-related New Year’s Eve injuries reported in Manila for 2013/4. Of the 933 cases, 914 were firecracker injuries, two were cases of firework ingestion. There were also eight additional cases of stray bullet injuries, bringing the total to 17 cases, most of which occurred in Metro Manila. (bemahan)
934: Pennsylvania House Bill 934 amended Voter ID Laws. (Efros)
935: The Hammond 935 is a model of church organ, described as "the perfect combination of Hammond's Drawbars and superb classic pipe organ voices". (GuyBarry)
936: Code page 936 is Microsoft's character encoding for simplified Chinese, one of the four double-byte character sets for East Asian languages. Originally it was intentical to GB 2312 and expanded to cover most parts of GBK with the release of Windows 95, now superseded by Code page 54936 (GB 18030). (Strawberry)
937: The Battle of Brunanburh in AD 937, recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is regarded as one of the most defining battles in the history of the British Isles. Its precise location is uncertain but it is believed to be somewhere on the Wirral peninsula. (GuyBarry)
938: Early Day Motion 938 states "That this House notes the suggestion that the broadcast of programmes like Teletubbies would change the attitudes of the North Korea dictatorship, which has incarcerated more than 200,000 of its citizens in gulags; and believes that the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs would be better advised to support an extension of BBC World Service programming to the Korean Peninsula, promoting Britain's cherished belief in democracy and human rights". (Strawberry)
939: The section of the A939 between Cock Bridge in Aberdeenshire and Tomintoul in Moray is regularly the first road in Great Britain closed due to snowfall. It reaches a height of 2090 ft at the Lecht Ski Centre. (GuyBarry)
940: Pennsylvania Route 940 (PA 940) is a 43-mile-long (69 km) Pennsylvania highway located in the sparsely-developed Poconos. It was from Pennsylvania Route 309 in Hazleton to Pennsylvania Route 191 in Paradise Valley. Large segments of PA 940 are located in densely forested areas. (Strawberry)
941: Take all the proper substrings of 941 and add them together: 9 + 4 + 1 + 94 + 41 = 149. This is the reverse of the original number. 941 is the smallest number with this property. (GuyBarry)
942: Union Pacific 942 is a streamlined diesel-electric locomotive, designed for fast, efficient pulling of passenger trains over long distances. It is an "E-unit", a standardized design first produced in 1937 and continually improved over 25 years through 10 model variations. E-units were the most popular passenger-service streamlined diesel locomotives in the US (in terms of numbers produced). (bemahan)
943: The 943 Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was founded in 2008 at 943 Liberty Avenue, the site of a former adult bookstore (previously also an arcade and an accordion school). (GuyBarry)
944: 944 Magazine was a regional fashion, entertainment and lifestyle publication that operated in the United States from 2001 to 2011. (Strawberry)
945: According to the Urban Dictionary, Rule 945 can be invoked by anyone who hears the word "sorry" in a circumstance where the person saying it has no responsibility in the situation, e.g. "My cat died" "I'm sorry" "rule 945". Punishments vary from person to person. It originates with this xkcd cartoon (linked). (GuyBarry)
946: The Rock Island Arsenal comprises 946 acres (383ha), located on Arsenal Island, originally known as Rock Island, on the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois. (Strawberry)
947: 947 is a balanced prime, which means that the nearest prime numbers above and below are the same distance away (in this case 941 and 953). Surprisingly, it's only the 14th such prime number. (GuyBarry)
948: The USS Morton DD 948, a destroyer, was known as the "saltiest ship in the fleet". (Strawberry)
949: The 949 Style Guide is a media site that highlights the latest and greatest in styling and fashion - so called, apparently, because it began "on a random November morning at 9:49 AM". (GuyBarry)
950: In the Terminator franchise, the l-950 Infiltrator, is a purely organic infiltrator deployed by Skynet. (Strawberry)
951: 951 dots can be arranged in the shape of a pentagon with one dot in the centre and 19 surrounding layers - the 20th "centred pentagonal number". (GuyBarry)
952: 952 is simplified bridge for three players, with a forced card-switching twist thrown in. (Strawberry)
953: As a result of a consultation by Transport for London, mobility bus route 953 between Scrattons Farm and Romford, which ran on Wednesdays only with about 18 regular users, was closed down on 7 November 2012. (GuyBarry)
954: Steak 954 is a steakhouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Strawberry)
955: 955 is the ISBN identifier for books published in Sri Lanka. (GuyBarry)
956: West Virginia Route 956 (WV 956) is a 4.2-mile (6.8km) long east-west state highway in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of West Virginia. (Strawberry)
957: It was reported in 2013 that Sally Frith from Gloucestershire had seen the musical Les Miserables 957 times. (GuyBarry)
958: Bruach na Frithe is 958 m (3143 ft) and is one of the principal summits on the Black Cullin ridge on the Isle of Skye. (Strawberry)
959: The Anglo-Saxon king Edgar, sometimes known as Edgar the Peaceful, succeeded to the throne of England in AD 959. (GuyBarry)
960: 960 is the telephone dialling code for the Maldives. (bemahan)
961: 961 is the highest three-digit perfect square (31 squared), and its reverse is also a perfect square (169 = 13 squared). (GuyBarry)
962: In 962 Indulf, King of the Scots and Picts died in battle, and was succeeded by Dubh, aka Duff MacMalcolm. ('yorz)
963: The 963 training system is an upper/lower workout split that helps you to build both size and strength by cycling main lifts between three different levels of weight intensity. (GuyBarry)
964: The film "Screams of Blasphemy" was formerly known as "Pinocchio 964". The eponymous hero, a lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners because of his inability to maintain an erection. (bemahan)
965: London's mobility bus route 965, which in 2013 had only 12 passengers on Mondays and 10 on Fridays, survived for a while but was eventually withdrawn in 2018. (GuyBarry)
966: 966 is the route number of a nightrider bus that goes from my city's CBD to the eastern suburbs in the small hours of the morning. (Awitt)
967: There were 967 independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland at the end of 2020. (Ed.)
968: The Porsche 968 was a sports car sold by Porsche AG from 1992 to 1995. (Awitt)
969: 969 is a strange number if you come from Burma. The three digits ‘969’ originally referred to the Buddha’s “three jewels”, but they are now being used as a brand name for a nationalist, anti-Muslim campaign led by a prominent monk based in Mandalay. (Efros)
970: The volcano under the Mashu caldera in Japan last erupted in AD 970. (GuyBarry)
971: The AEK971 is a Russian made assault rifle. (Big Martin)
972: +972 Magazine is a magazine based in Israel and Palestine. (GuyBarry)
973: Mr. 973 is a hip hop performer based in New Jersey. (Strawberry)
974: In the online guide to UK Moths, 974 Argyrotaenia ljungiana is described as "a reasonably variable species, typically well-marked, but with some specimens duller and more obscure". The number 974 is the Log Book number from "A Recorder's Log Book or Label List of British Butterflies and Moths" by J.D. Bradley and D.S. Fletcher. (GuyBarry)
975: The Wright R-975 Whirlwind was a radial engine developed in the United States by Wright Aeronautical. (Strawberry)
976: 976-EVIL is a 1988 horror film directed by Robert Englund, who is probably best known for playing Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series of films. (GuyBarry)
977: In the 1950 film Harvey, Dr. Sanderson prescribes "Formula 977" to Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart). (Strawberry)
978: 978 = 24 + 34 + 44 + 54. (Ed.)
979: Ciste Dhubh, 979 m (3212 ft) high, is a mountain situated in the Scottish Highlands between Glen Shiel and Glen Affric. (Strawberry)
980: In March 2013, two British parents managed to get a refund from Apple after their eight year-old son spent £980 buying virtual doughnuts in the iPad game The Simpsons: Tapped Out. (GuyBarry)
981: Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 that crashed in France in 1974, killing all 346 people on board. (Strawberry)
982: The 982 Bollard from Cooper Lighting features an architectural wedge in a one or two fixture configuration, providing a direct, glare-free symmetrical distribution with either compact fluorescent or incandescent lamp technology. (GuyBarry)
983: 983 is the number of words in U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1905. (Strawberry)
984: In the 1982 Canadian TV movie 984: Prisoner of the Future, a corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator. (GuyBarry)
985: 985 is the telephone area code for southeastern Louisiana. (Strawberry)
986: There's a well-known playground chasing game, known by various names, where one person is ‘it’ or ‘on’ and runs around chasing others, who when caught become ‘it’. In 2013 the now defunct website UsVsTh3m (Us Vs Them) polled some 986 people across the British Isles to see the variations on the name. The most popular names for the game were "tag", "tig" or "tiggy"; the rarer variants included "tuggy" in Newcastle and "Dobby" in Nottingham. (It was called "touch" at my school in Somerset, but that doesn't seem to be recorded.) (GuyBarry)
987: 987 Hotels have hotels in Prague and Barcelona. (Strawberry)
988: The maximum number of pieces attainable by making 18 planar cuts through a cube (or cake) is 988. (Cf. #834.) (GuyBarry)
989: 989 Studios were a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) that developed games for the PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their games include EverQuest, Twisted Metal III and 4, Syphon Filter and Syphon Filter 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove and others. They now exist as the 989 Sports brand owned by SCEA that produce sports games. (Strawberry)
990: In the Cardigan Bay area, BBC Radio 5 Live is broadcast on 990 kHz medium wave. (GuyBarry)
991: Route 991 is a commuter bus route operated by the Maryland Transit Administration in the U.S. state of Maryland between Hagerstown, Frederick and the Shady Grove Metro Station. (Strawberry)
992: The round Barney and Kate, collected in various places in the USA and Canada, is number 992 in the Vaughan Williams library of the EFDSS. (Big Martin)
993: Building 993 NASA Reduced Gravity Office (RGO) is located in Houston, Texas. (Strawberry)
994: The A994 has the highest three-digit A-road number currently in use in Britain. It runs from Dunfermline in Fife to Cairneyhill, about three miles away. (GuyBarry)
995: 995 Fifth Avenue is a 16-storey co-op building at 995 Fifth Avenue and East 81st Street in New York City, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was constructed in 1926 as the Stanhope Apartment Hotel and designed by Rosario Candela. The buliding was converted to a residential co-op with 27 units in 2005 and renamed the Stanhope. It has since been renamed simply 995 Fifth Avenue. (Strawberry)
996: In the Pixar animated film Cars, Sally Carrera is based on a Porsche 996. (GuyBarry)
997: State Road 997, also known as Krome Avenue and West 177th Avenue, is a 36.71-mile-long (59.08 km) north-south state highway in western Miami-Dade County, Florida. (Strawberry)
998: 998 million smartphones were manufactured in 2013. (GuyBarry)
999: 999 is an official emergency telephone number in a number of countries which allows the caller to contact emergency services for urgent assistance. Countries and territories using 999 include the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Macau, Bahrain, Qatar, Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius, Singapore, Zimbabwe, Kingdom of Switzerland and Trinidad and Tobago. (Strawberry)
1000: 1000 Chiffres ("1000 Numbers") is a video by Olivier Hodasava featuring images of the numbers 1-1000 captured in Google Street View, lasting eight-and-a-half minutes. (Login required.) (GuyBarry)
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