Count to ten thousand! (Part 1)

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SunEdison secures $190 million for 73 MW solar plant in Chile

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/sunedison-secures-190-million-for-73-mw-solar-plant-in-chile_100015578/#axzz36xVhlmLv

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This happened in the year 474 BC. Notice a resemblance to a currently popular TV show?

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(Valium)

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This gives me an excuse to post this:

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Roberts, in his work on archery, records that in the year 1795, Mamhood Effendij, secretary to the Turkish ambassador, a man possessing very great muscular power, shot an arrow from a Turkish bow, four hundred and eighty-two yards, in the presence of three gentlemen, of the Toxophilite society, now living, who measured the distance, and to whom he observed, that his emperor, Sultan Selim, could shoot further than any one of his subjects.

From The British Archer by Thomas Hastings, pub. 1831.
http://www.archerylibrary.com/books/british_archer/docs/part3_06.html

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Four Hundred and Eighty Three farmers graduated after completing five months of training in aqua-culture, rice and vegetable cultivation

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United States versus four hundred eighty-four
 ($484,912.00) IN U.S. CURRENCY; Defendant

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Oh OK! I know, I know, this excited me as well:

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Its arrival truly marked my passage into manhood.

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today I learned the word “toxophilite” pertains to archers and archery :cupid:

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And the math co-processor that went with the 486 line (I think this was something you wanted only if you had a 486SX rather than a DX).

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four hundred eighty-seven vs four hundred eighty-eight

since I got beat by one minute

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this must be good for something


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I believe the 487sx was a complete 486dx. Sort of a “I changed my mind” type deal.

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S.C. construction worker handed $525 fine for 89-cent refill

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