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« Reply #100 on: December 02, 2009, 03:13:40 PM » |
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Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series, named from a feature of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
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« Reply #101 on: December 02, 2009, 09:29:37 PM » |
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102 is:
The emergency telephone number for police in Belarus
The emergency telephone number for fire in Israel
The emergency telephone number for ambulance in parts of India
very confusing if you travel a lot!
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« Reply #102 on: December 02, 2009, 10:12:47 PM » |
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It gets even more confusing.....
103 is the emergency telephone number for ambulance in Belarus and India
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« Reply #103 on: December 03, 2009, 06:45:52 PM » |
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104 was the number of guns on Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory.
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« Reply #104 on: December 03, 2009, 09:07:10 PM » |
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The Famous Winter War lasted 105 days in 1939-1940
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« Reply #105 on: December 14, 2009, 03:58:39 AM » |
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The 106 is a Peugeot car
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« Reply #106 on: December 14, 2009, 01:28:53 PM » |
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107 Camilla is one of the largest main belt asteroids
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« Reply #107 on: December 14, 2009, 06:16:05 PM » |
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In Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times to finish the old year and welcome the new one. Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations a person must overcome to achieve nirvana.
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« Reply #108 on: December 17, 2009, 11:12:30 AM » |
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The meridian 109° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole
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« Reply #109 on: December 17, 2009, 01:00:17 PM » |
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the expression "To give 110%", meaning to give a little more effort than one's maximum effort
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« Reply #110 on: December 17, 2009, 02:03:53 PM » |
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In cricket a score of 111 or multiples thereof (222 = "double nelson", 333 = "triple nelson" etc.) is considered unlucky.
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« Reply #111 on: December 17, 2009, 03:37:42 PM » |
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112 is the free call number for emergency services throughout the EU
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« Reply #112 on: December 17, 2009, 05:50:28 PM » |
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113 is a French hip hop group.
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« Reply #113 on: December 17, 2009, 06:05:13 PM » |
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The state of Missouri has 114 counties
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« Reply #114 on: December 17, 2009, 06:54:32 PM » |
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Ununpentium is the temporary name of a synthetic superheavy element in the periodic table that has the atomic number 115.
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« Reply #115 on: December 17, 2009, 10:29:17 PM » |
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The Hundred Years' War between France and England, lasted 116 years from 1337 to 1453
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« Reply #116 on: December 18, 2009, 09:20:14 AM » |
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Artist Walter Wick stacks 117 objects on a single Lego block, then sends little wind-up creatures toward it to knock it over.
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« Reply #117 on: December 27, 2009, 10:18:21 PM » |
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The TV series “Kojak” ran on CBS from 1973 to 1978 for 118 episodes
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« Reply #118 on: January 03, 2010, 02:27:16 PM » |
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Psalm 119 is the longest of the Psalms, and the longest chapter of the Bible
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« Reply #119 on: January 10, 2010, 02:49:16 PM » |
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120 liters of water are needed to produce 1 glass of wine (125 ml)!
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