Counting

[GuyBarry]

Here's the 967 Grid System. I didn't get the joke at first, but apparently it's a send-up of web development frameworks like the 960 Grid System.

[RobbieM]

I do believe the A968 is the furthest north A road in the United Kingdom.

[GuyBarry]

I do believe the A968 is the furthest north A road in the United Kingdom.

SABRE agrees with you, so you must be right.

The Orange One has kindly drawn my attention to the 969 route between Whitton and Roehampton Vale, one of three remaining mobility bus routes in London. It operates on Tuesdays and Fridays, and the Orange One doesn't like it.

[DrainBrain]

The volcano under the Mashu caldera in Japan last erupted in 970.

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/mashu

[RobbieM]

But I bet the ash from the eruption didn't go as far as Scourie in Scotland.

By the way, the last three digits of Scourie's STD code are 971.

[The Orange One]

+972 Magazine is a magazine based in Israel and Palestine.

http://972mag.com/

[GuyBarry]

The 973 Program is China's on-going national keystone basic research programme, which was approved by the Chinese government in June 1997 and is organized and implemented by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

[RobbieM]

974 = 10 times the frequency of 'Rock FM' in Preston, where I grew up.

[GuyBarry]

The Anglo-Saxon king Edward "The Martyr" succeeded his father Edgar in AD 975. Although he was the eldest child, he was not the acknowledged heir and the leadership of England was contested with his half-brother, Ethelred the Unready.

[DrainBrain]

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]

In July, Ariel Castro of Cleveland, Ohio faced 977 counts of kidnapping, rape, aggravated murder and other crimes.

[RobbieM]

That would never happen in Wrexham, a town whose STD code finishes with the digits 978.

[GuyBarry]

[Going further afield with the telecommunications theme...]

The international country code 979 has been allocated to an International Premium Rate Service, which is not yet known to be active.

[RobbieM]

If you were around when Vladimir I of Kiev began ruling in Russia, you would've probably known that the year was 980AD.

[GuyBarry]

United Nations Security Council resolution 981, adopted unanimously on 31 March 1995, established the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia (UNCRO) for a period terminating 30 November 1995.