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A Challenge wrote: 29 Jul 2017, 13:14 I could come up with something amazing as it is 28 twice, but New Scientist Issue 2828 has a feature about 'The Secret Life of Pronouns'. Shouldn't that be in a magazine on English?
Uh-oh! Was there nothing interesting in issue 2827?
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DrainBrain wrote: 29 Jul 2017, 17:52 Uh-oh! Was there nothing interesting in issue 2827?
Quite a few things actually, including the cover story "Heal thyself: the real power of mind over matter". But perhaps A Challenge can repost the item after this:

Black Crook Peak, the highest point of the Sheeprock Mountains in Tooele County, Utah, stands at an elevation of 2827 metres.
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I could come up with something amazing as it is 28 twice, but New Scientist Issue 2828 has a feature about 'The Secret Life of Pronouns'. Shouldn't that be in a magazine on English?

Got it right this time!
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Someone
  was having
       problems
    with indentation in
              Microsoft VSCode
 issue #2829
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Softwarepark Hagenberg in Hagenberg, Austria describes itself as "a place of communication and meeting, where around 2830 people work, research, teach, learn and live".
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Time to resurrect this thread after a three-month sabbatical. What better way to do that than looking at the Holt 2831 Single Toilet Roll Holder?
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The problem must be a lack of internet connection - what we need is the Vigor 2832 Series ADSL Router!
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[I thought this would never start again!]

The Methuselah tree, for many years considered the world's oldest living tree, has an estimated germination date of 2833 BC.
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2834^4+1 = 64505891781137
2834^4+3 = 64505891781139

These are twin primes.
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According to the World Waterfall Database, Skorga in Norway is the seventh tallest waterfall in the world, with a height of 2835 feet (864 metres).
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2836 Mexican Pesos is the equivalent of a mere £114.61
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It seems like squillions of years ago that we last had a moth, so I'm going for the North American Astronomer Moth Olethreutes astrologana, with a Hodges number of 2837. Here it is found deep in the woods off a path, confronting a small spider.
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Someone has created a YouTube channel called 2838. Why, I don't now, it says soon and inactive on their profile pictures, and it has no content, so I'm not quite sure what's going on!
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And amazingly, it has 43 subscribers!

There's a little bit more on this YouTube video, I'm pleased to say - it's a clip of the steam locomotive Royal Hudson 2839. Originally owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it was sold to a group of owners in Pennsylvania, USA and briefly used for excursions in 1979-80. It's now in a museum in California.
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(0 x 1 x 2 x 3 x 4) + (5 x 6 x 7 x 8 ) + (9 x 10 x 11) + (12 x 13) + 14 = 2840

I have to put a space between 8 and ) or else I get 8)
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