The Counting Game

[Octavious]

264 Squadron was an RAF fighter squadron that flew, during the early years of WWII, the infamous Defiant fighter plane. The Defiant's most distinctive feature was that it had no forward facing guns.

They took heavy losses.

Sometimes you have to wonder how the Nazis lost...

[damo666]

265 = !6

the number of ways the numbers 1 to 6 can be ordered such that none of the numbers is in its natural position.

[flash2015]

Wang Dun, Chinese general of the Jin Dynasty was born in the year 266.

At least that is what Wikipedia told me.

[flash2015]

267 is the area code for Philadelphia. Who knew?

[flash2015]

268 is the area code for Antigua and Barbuda...all part of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) where you can't always be sure if you are calling a foreign country or not.

[Jamiet99uk]

"Simpsons Tall Tales" is the 269th episode of The Simpsons, and the season finale of show's twelfth season. In the episode, Homer refuses to pay a five dollar airport tax to fly to Delaware, which forces the family to ride in a livestock car of a train instead. There they meet a singing hobo who tells three tall tales.

[damo666]

270 the lowest harmonic divisors number that is neither perfect nor square pyramidal.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

271 AD the Germanic tribes invade Italy but Roman army under the emperor Aurelian defeats them and causes heavy casualties.

[damo666]

272 death of St Denis

[e.m.c^42]

273, acts of international terrorism in 1998, as defined by "Patterns of Global Terrorism"

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

274 in the battle of river Aoos Pyrrhus defeats Antigonus Gonatas proclaiming himself king of Macedonia, being already king of Epirus, controls much of northern Greece.

[damo666]

275 year of birth of St George

[Jamiet99uk]

276 is the highest number of rounds in boxing history, recorded in a bout in 1825 that saw Jack Jones beat Patsy Tunney after over four hours of combat.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

Ι wonder how these guys were looking after four hours of hitting each other.

Damo, strange that you mentioned this fact as today is St. George's day (at least for Orthodox Christians).

277 Emperor Probus defeats the Goths and then is officially recognised as emperor. He will spend his six years reign fighting barbaric invaders.

[damo666]

278 the bus I used to get to school (a long time ago)

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

279 Gaulic tribes invade Greece, like the Persians two centuries earlier, find a determined defence at Thermopylae and a way around it but they are defeated before the holly place of Delphi.

[Bonatogether]

280 - the year that the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the Seven Wonders - of the World is completed.

[e.m.c^42]

281 days, fastest circumnavigation by tandem bicycle (male)

[bozotheclown]

The lowest elevation in the USA is 279 feet below sea level at Badwater Basin located in Death Valley, California, but the sign there says the elevation is 282 feet below sea level.

[flash2015]

Fish used for sushi now apparently carry 283 times (not 282 or 284) the parasites they did in the 1980s:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/22 ... -in-1980s/#