Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[g-one]

826 is the new 9 to 5, fact!

[Heid the Ba]

I'll need to check with Dolly about that.

827 Squadron was a Fleet Air Arm squadron which attacked The Lonely Queen of the North helping drive it to Tromsø where the big lads of the RAF did for her.

[Arneb]

Imagine that: a song called 'The Young Nun', and it's not even smutty! That is Schubert's Lied D828

[Heid the Ba]

829 is as prime as a big prime thing.

[Arneb]

Speaking of big things, the Burj Khalifa is almost 830 m tall.

[Heid the Ba]

The Burj Khalifa is just under 831m tall.

[Мастер]

The Burj Khalifa is just under 831m tall.

I was thinking more like 838. (From memory - accurate?)

St. Marks, v2.0, is built in Venice in the year 832.

[Lianachan]

The Battle of Athelstaneford is said to have taken place in 832 AD* and to have been the first time Scottish saltire (the white diagonal cross on a sky blue background and current flag) was used.

*Some historians prefer 934 AD and call bullshit on the flag thing.

[Arneb]

The Burj Khalifa is just under 831m tall.

I was thinking more like 838. (From memory - accurate?).

828 m, but I was so keen on using it, I rounded it up.

Art 838 833 BGB, animal owners are liable for damages caused by their animals.

[Heid the Ba]

Skipped a few Arneb.

The A834 starts, or perhaps ends, in Dingwall.

[Arneb]

Skipped a few Arneb.

Ah no, luckily - it's article 833 alright, 838 was just a typo.

A litre of diesel fuel has a mass of 835 g.

[Heid the Ba]

836 Squadron was another Fleet Air Arm squadron; one which was still flying Swordfish in 1945. Which was a bold move.

[Arneb]

Have a day full of hope, y'all, with Romans 8,37: 'No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.'

[Heid the Ba]

The square root of 838 is twenty nine-ish.

[Lianachan]

The A839 is one of the shorter A83x roads, running for less than 25 miles through south Sutherland.

[Arneb]

In a particularly heroic act of war against American Imperialism, four passengers (aged were killed in the bombing of flight TWA 840 on 2 April, 1986, when a charge of about 1 kg exploded during descent into Athens, Greece, ripping a more than 1,5 m long hole into the fuselage and causing explosive devompression at an altitude of about 11,000 ft.

[Heid the Ba]

The 841 bus route runs through Greater Brumigen.

[Lianachan]

842 AD saw the death of Uurad or Ferat son of Bargoit, who was king of the Picts. No two versions of the king-lists, known as the Pictish Chronicle, give exactly the same vesion of his name. He is one of only two Pictish monarchs whose name can be read on a Pictish stone.

[Arneb]

The year 843 saw the partition of the Karolingian Empire amon the Sons Ludwig the Pious in the treaty of Verdun, ending the dynastic quarrels in the Reich, but leaving it none the stronger; the sacking of Nantes at the hands of Viking raiders; and the fall of Messina to Arab invaders. Oh, AND Kenneth MacAlpin unites the Scotes and the Picts and now rules everything North of the Forth-Clyde line. A new kingdom is born (I am sure there is a lot more to tell, but I like skimming off Wikipedia). All in all, a busy year in Europe.

[Lianachan]

Nah, Ciniod son of Elphin/Cináed mac Ailpín,/Kenneth MacAlpin was later. You're thinking of Ciniod the son of Ferath. Or, in layman's terms, the wrong Kenneth. I hope you enjoy the variety of names per individual as much as I do.

Oh, and Union Pacific 844 is a class "FEF-3" 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for its heritage fleet

[Arneb]

But it was on WIKIPEDIA!!! They must be RIGHT!!!!!

Do you believe me if I shout it out 845 times?

(Here's the article, btw, if you want to have look. The German should be surmountable - it's the first time I am pointed to a really fat error on Wikipedia).

[Lianachan]

I can tell you 846 times if needed. Wrong Kenneth.

ETA - actually i see now that year is sometimes given for him. In any event, the whole uniting kingdoms thing is nonsense - or, at least, more violent than usually thought.. He was King of Dál Riada, and noticed that the Pictish kingdom was tired having spent ages fighting Vikings, so he invaded and conquered. He wasn't the last "king of the Picts" and would have his own troubles with our Scandinavian brothers shortly. Generally accepted Pictish Kings timeline (from Wikipedia):

843 Ciniod II Kenneth son of Ferath Possibly the brother of the previous king Said to have reigned one year in some lists
843–845 Bridei VII Brudei son of Uuthoi Unknown Said to have reigned two years in some lists
845–848 Drest X Drest son of Uurad As previous sons of Uurad Said to have reigned three years in some lists; the myth of MacAlpin's treason calls the Pictish king Drest
848–13 February 858 Cináed Ciniod son of Elphin, Cináed mac Ailpín,Kenneth MacAlpin

[Arneb]

847 thanks, at least!

[Мастер]

848 is the original telephone dialling code for Manhattan, multiplied by four.

[Arneb]

Gosh, I remember that from my clerkship there, 31 years ago

849 Ara is a main-belt asteroid of approx. 80 km diameter - quite a bit of rock as asteroids go. It was disvovered in 1912 by A.S.Belyavsky, who named it in honour of the American Relief Association (ARA), which had recently organized food aid during a famine in Russia. Ara also being Latin for altar gave this name a nice touch in these pre-Soviet, pre-WWI times. Belyavsky went on to continue his career in the S. U., dying in 1953 in the town of his birth, St. Petersburg, although it was named Leningrad at the time.