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2 unusual facts about 476


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The birth of Aryabhata is traditionally regarded as the beginning of the classical period of Indian mathematics and astronomy.

Odoacer spares the boy's life and gives him a pension of 6,000 solidii but exiles him to the "Castellum Lucullanum" (Castel dell'Ovo), on the island of Megaride in the Gulf of Naples.


1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

The aircraft involved were British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B en route from London Heathrow Airport to Yeşilköy International Airport, Istanbul, and Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9-32 en route from Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport, Yugoslavia, to Cologne Bonn Airport, West Germany.

Alfredo De Vido

The circular theater was converted according to De Vido's plans into the 476-seat Queens Theater in the Park, a wonderful success according to Borough President Claire Shulman of Queens, who said she was an attendee at the 1939 World's Fair (held at the same site) as a little girl.

Carter's Grove

A conservation easement on the mansion and 400 of the 476 acres is co-held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Catlins River Branch

The local residents had strong feelings for their railway, and when the last Tahakopa-based engine, A 476, departed the isolated terminus, "Now Is the Hour" was sung and a wreath was placed on the locomotive.

Cevian

Vladimir Karapetoff (1929) "Some properties of correlative vertex lines in a plane triangle", American Mathematical Monthly 36:476–9.

Elmer Keith

He used two of these doubles, a .476 Westley Richards and a .500 Nitro Express, to take dangerous game in Africa on two different safaris.

Göksun

The Byzantine bishops, Paul the Confessor (died 350 AD), John Chrysostom (died 407 AD) and Emperor Basiliscus (died 476 AD) either died or were exiled to this remote place.

Jelena Dimitrijević

Jovan Skerlić, Istorija Nove Srpske Književnosti / A History of New Serbian Literature (Second Edition, 1921), page 476.

Jimmy Rushing

Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather und Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz. 2nd edition, Stuttgart, Metzler 2004, ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2

Kurt Schaffenberger

Action Comics #274, 359, 361-372, 374-376, 437, 442, 445, 460, 464, 474-476, 486, 501, 556, 558-559, 561-562, 565, 567, 570, 573-576, 578, 580-583, 600, 637-640 (1961-1989)

Manayunk Expressway

The Manayunk Expressway was to begin in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, at the Mid-County Interchange where I-276 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) and I-476 (Blue Route/Northeast Extension) currently meet.

Ophisops leschenaultii

Jerdon (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xxii. p. 476) says that he has recognized the species: it is somewhat locally distributed. I have seen it in the Salem and Coimbatoor districts only, especially near the banks of the Cauvery. It frequents bushy ground, hedges of Euphorbia and clumps of Cactus.

Pelamis platura

Colors of the snake are variable, but most often distinctly bicolored, black above, yellow or brown below, with the dorsal and ventral colors sharply demarcated from one another; ventrally, there may be a series of black spots or bars on the yellow or brown background, or the yellow may extend dorsally so there is only a narrow middorsal black stripe, or a series of black crossbars (M.A. Smith, 1943: 476–477, gives more complete descriptions of the color pattern variants).

Pennsylvania Route 363

At this point, the route becomes the border between Towamencin Township to the northwest and Upper Gwynedd Township to the southeast, crossing under I-476 (Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension) along this stretch.

Pennsylvania Route 534

The route runs east through more forested areas of the state park, heading east-southeast and passing under I-476 (Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike).

Pennsylvania Route 563

The road runs through wooded areas and passes over the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-476), PA 563 turns east and heads into the community of Tylersport, where it passes homes and businesses as it crosses Allentown Road.

Pennsylvania Route 663

The route becomes undivided and comes to an interchange with I-476 (Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension).

Pennsylvania Route 903

The route heads through forested areas with some wooded residential subdivisions, running through Christmans and passing over I-476 (Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike).

Skandagupta

Skandagupta died in 467 and was succeeded by his half-brother Purugupta (467–473), Kumaragupta II (473–476), Budhagupta (476–495?) and Narasimhagupta, whose kingdom in the plains of Northern India was continuously attacked by the Hunas.

Slugging percentage

The next year he slugged .846, and these records went unbroken until 2001, when Barry Bonds achieved 411 bases in 476 at-bats, bringing his slugging percentage to .863, unmatched since.

WellPoint

Anders, George, "Blue Cross of California Sells Stake in WellPoint Health for $476 Million," Wall Street Journal, January 28, 1993.

Yuan Yong

Emperor Xianwen yielded the throne to Tuoba Yong's oldest brother, Emperor Xiaowen, in 471, and died subsequently in 476, probably murdered by Tuoba Yong's stepgrandmother, Empress Dowager Feng, who then proceeded to assume regency over Emperor Xiaowen.


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