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926 is the smallest number that cannot be formed using the digits 1-6 at most once, with the operators +, –, ×, ÷, and ^. [Source: http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html]
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In August 2012 an apparent supernova was observed in galaxy NGC 927.

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/ ... 08555.html
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928 Stowe holds the highest speed authenticated for the Southern Railway's "Schools" class - 95 mph - which was attained near Wool in 1938 on a four-coach train from Dorchester to Wareham.
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http://www.project929.com/

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930 is a pronic number (or rectangular number), i.e. the product of two consecutive integers (30 x 31).
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Pop down to Crystal Palace Parade this Friday at 10am, and you will catch the wee rare beastie known as bus number 931. With a frequency of one a week in each direction.

http://www.londonbusroutes.net/photos/931.htm
http://www.londonbusroutes.net/times/931.pdf
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If that was a train it would be a "parliamentary service"...

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Take the first six prime numbers: 2 3 5 7 11 13

Insert 933 between each pair: 2 933 3 933 5 933 7 933 11 933 13

Concatenate to a single number: 29333933593379331193313. This number is prime.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiLMGXJuWsE

Little Prelude in C Minor, BWV934 by JS Bach.
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Would anyone like to employ this 935-year-old babysitter? (She seems to have kept remarkably well for her age.)
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[Interesting!]

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.
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http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=938;orb=1

Round and round it goes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/938_Chlosinde

Minor planet.

Or alternatively, E938 is element number 18.
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The Orange One wrote: Or alternatively, E938 is element number 18.
[Argon, apparently used as a packaging gas. You live and learn.]

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.
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As for E940, it was the main component of Silly String.
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