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Sporus of Nicaea, Greek mathematician and astronomer (approximate date)

Anthony Yerkovich

His other television credits include Big Apple as executive producer, Private Eye as creator, Hill Street Blues as a writer and supervising producer, Hart to Hart and 240-Robert as a writer.


1786 in Great Britain

6 January - The outward bound East Indiaman Halsewell is wrecked on the Isle of Portland in a storm with only 74 of more than 240 on board surviving.

1922 Atlantic hurricane season

The hurricane remains the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone above 30.4°N, since Hurricane Dog of 1950 weakened to below 150 mph (240 km/h) as it reached that latitude.

2011 ACC Championship Game

Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd was named the game's most valuable player, after completing 20–29 passes for 240 yards and three touchdowns.

Afro-Brazilian history

The profits were huge: in 1810 a slave purchased in Luanda for 70,000 réis was sold in the District of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, for up to 240,000 réis.

Apurímac Region

poly 116 105 126 116 135 123 136 134 137 147 137 159 129 164 128 170 132 180 125 189 129 196 134 210 143 217 138 222 138 228 133 240 135 246 131 249 130 249 122 254 113 254 97 262 93 260 82 253 73 265 66 275 56 274 49 263 57 240 54 235 61 232 63 218 69 204 79 193 82 193 80 182 77 168 76 159 83 151 81 145 84 135 89 127 95 121 101 112 107 110 113 106 Aymaraes Province

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Bart le Blanc

Since 2003 Bart Le Blanc is a member of the Board of the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP in the Netherlands, one of the largest pension funds in the world with a total asset base of euro 240 billion.

Carl Moll

On June 21, 2013, the online auction house Auctionata in Berlin sold Moll's Villa in Vienna for 240,000 Euros.

Chuzhou

According to the 2010 Census, the city of Chuzhou has a registered population of 4,533,540 inhabitants, although 7,260,240 persons declared to be permanent residents.

Combined Islands cricket team

All-rounder Norbert Philip took more than 20 wickets for the second year running, and also hit 240 runs, while off spinner Derick Parry took a team record seven for 100 in the first innings of a drawn game against champions Barbados.

Curtiss P-6 Hawk

It was restored and marked as 32-240 of 17th Pursuit Squadron, missing on a flight over Lake Erie on 24 September 1932.

Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria

At the last legislative elections, 25 June 2005, DSB won 7.0% of the popular vote and 17 out of 240 seats, their support coming mainly from big cities (appr. 18% of voters in Sofia).

DialAmerica

The company's sponsor program has generated over $240 million for charities, including MADD, Special Olympics, and Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

Ellis Watson

For the proceeding three years, he was the Managing Director of Mirror Group Newspapers - responsible for some five national and 240 regional newspapers.

Film chain

General Electric also made film chains, both in B&W and color; among its color film cameras were the PE-24 and PE-240, both of which used four vidicon tubes (designated as "4-V").

Flight 258

Northeast Airlines Flight 258, a Conviar CV-240 that crashed upon landing at Nantucket Memorial Airport on 15 August 1958, resulting in 25 out of the 34 people on board being killed.

Full Body Massage

The film has been compared to La Belle Noiseuse, which starred Emmanuelle Béart as an artist's model who spends much of the 240-minute feature nude, discussing relationships with the artist.

Gordian III

In 240, Sabinianus revolted in the African province, but the situation was quickly brought under control.

Henry B. Krajewski

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Krajewski had an imposing stature; he stood six foot (1.83 m) and weighed 240 pounds (109 kg).

Invitations to the first inauguration of Barack Obama

Invitations were sent to constituents, who received one of the 240,000 color-coded tickets to the inaugural ceremony distributed by House and Senate congressional members of the 111th U.S. Congress.

John Navarre

He also held the records for most total offensive yards gained in a game (368 vs. Iowa in 2003) and in a season (3,240 in 2003) before being surpassed by Denard Robinson in 2010.

KCMS

The station transmitted with an effective radiated power of 240,000 watts from the tower site of KGDN-AM at King's Garden (now Crista) in north Seattle (19303 Fremont Ave West).

Kitzingen Army Airfield

Harvey Barracks/Kitzingen Army Airfield is a former United States Army 1st Infantry Division (1st ID) facility in Germany, located about 2 miles east-northeast of Kitzingen (Bavaria), about 240 miles southwest of Berlin.

Life imprisonment in Russia

Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment are held in maximum security prisons separately from other criminals (e.g. VK-240/2 White Swan (prison) in Solikamsk).

LZ 4

After modifications further trials were made on 23 and 29 June, and on 1 July a spectacular 12  cross-country flight was made during which it was flown over Switzerland to Zürich and then back to Lake Constance, covering 386 m (240 mi) and reaching an altitude of 795 m (2,600 ft).

Marc Guylaine

In 2008, Lighthouse Productions contracted filmmaker Paul-Émile d'Entremont to film a documentary seeking the wreckage of the Lady Dorianne, which was theorised to be sitting 240 feet beneath sea level, as the only known shipwreck in the area.

National Insurance Contributions Act 2006

HM Revenue and Customs estimated that the Act would secure £95 million in national insurance contributions for the financial year 2004-05 and £240 million per annum in subsequent years.

Nicholas T. Goldsborough

Two of his campaigns for The Music Center raised more than $240 million for the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall and renovation of the Ahmanson Theatre.

Orentius

Orentius and Patientia (d. 240), Christian martyr and saint, father of St. Lawrence

Plaza Carolina

Anchored by JCPenney, TJ Maxx, Forever 21 and Sears, it features over 240 stores, making it the second largest mall in Puerto Rico.

Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac

In 1775 and 1776, de Anza escorted 240 colonists from Horcasitas, Sonora, to Monterey, California, and then to San Francisco Bay, where he selected sites for the mission, presidio and settlement.

Publius Sempronius Tuditanus

Tuditanus, descended from a prominent branch of the plebeian gens Sempronia, may have been a nephew or cousin of the censor Marcus Sempronius C.f. Tuditanus who had been consul in 240 BC with Gaius Claudius Centho and censor in 230 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus).

Revolution Prep

Students in the class improved up to 240 points on their official SAT exams, and Revolution Prep was commended in an open letter by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Richard Dacoury

1981–1992 French National Team, 166 appearances (2,240 points)

Romani people in France

Reuters reported that a charter plane flew 240 Romani, including children, back to Bucharest, Romania, from Lyon.

Simeis 147

Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant (SNR) that may have occurred in the Milky Way, on the constellation borders of Auriga and Taurus.

Solgne

The commune borders the communes of Buchy, Luppy, Secourt, Sailly-Achâtel and lies at an altitude of between 240 and 299 metres above sea level.

Sovremenny-class destroyer

In 2006, the extra spheres (painted white as the mid-2006) added atop of the superstructures of the Chinese ships appearing in latest photographs of the Chinese units have shown that these Chinese ships had been upgraded with the domestic HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded) and SATCOM (probably the SNTI-240).

Takis Fotopoulos

by Oliver Ressler & Aneta Szylak, 240 pages (20 pages in color), languages: English and Polish, ISBN 978-83-924665-0-5 (Gdansk: Wyspa Institute of Art, Poland, 2007).

The Flight That Fought Back

The dramatic film, narrated by Kiefer Sutherland and a cast of actor playing hijackers, passengers and crew, reconstructs the events that led to Flight 93 crashing in Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania, approx 150 miles (240 km) northwest of Washington, D.C., during the September 11, 2001, attacks.

The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World

It was the longest film ever made at the time of its release, but was pushed back in 1987 by The Cure for Insomnia, which runs for 87 hours, and is now in the number six spot behind Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki) (2011), which runs 240 hours; Cinématon (2010), which runs 152 hours; Untitled #125 (Hickory) (2011), which runs 120 hours; Matrjoschka (2006), which runs 95 hours.

Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards!

On May 21, 2013, Toby Turner started a fundraiser on crowdfunding website Indiegogo, explaining that he wished for $240,000 to create Tobuscus Adventures: Wizards!.

Twig the Fairy

Twig has appeared twice on the cover of the nationally-published Faerie Magazine and has more than 240,000 followers on Facebook.

University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kanpur

With an initial strength of 240 students, it now has 1,700 students on its rolls in the six disciplines of Engineering and other career-oriented programs like MCA, BCA, M.Sc. (Electronics), M.Sc.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park

Within its 240 hectares (about 600 acres) there are 19 sites that represent the active and historical society of Northern Plains Peoples composed of Cree, Assiniboine, Saulteaux, Atsina, Dakota, and Blackfoot.

Wireless Emporium

Featured at #240 on Lead411's Tech 500 list - a list the recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in the United States.

Yorkville, Oneida County, New York

Hyosung USA operated a 240,000 square foot reinforced fabric lining plant on 2214 Whitesboro Street.


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