UN Security Council resolution 591 related to an arms trade embargo of South Africa, because of the apartheid system that was in force.

Crater lake in Oregon, has a maximun depth of 592 meters, and is the seventh deepest lake in the world.

593 years ago today, John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy was assassinated by supporters of the future Charles VII of France.

The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is 594 feet tall. It's also the world's largest power station.

595 is the Dewey Decimal reference number for Arthropods.
These include spiders, insects, centipedes, mites, ticks, lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, krill, barnacles, scorpions and many, many others.

Project 596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, which was named after the month of June 1959 in which it was installed after the Soviet Union decided to stop helping the Chinese with their nuclear project that month.

597AD marks the founding of the King's School Canterbury, and makes it the oldest school in the world still open today.
All sorts of famous ex pupils include, Christopher Marlowe, Somerset Maugham and Carole Reed

In 598AD, Kings Mynyddog Mwynfawr of Din-Eidyn & Cynan of Gododdin rode south to fight Saxon Bernicia at the Battle of Catterick.

Here it is!
the 599 Ferrari. Woohoo!

A credit score below 600 is considered poor in the United States.

601 years ago today, King Henry IV of England called his ninth parliament.

The 602 Club is a bar on Earth in the 22nd Century.

This will make sense if you are a Star Trek fan.

603 is the area code for the entire state of New Hampshire.

No. 604 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force noted for its pioneering role the development of radar-controlled night-fighter operations.

605 is the area of the entire state of South Dakota.

606 is a phone-in programme dedicated to football (soccer) on BBC Radio 5 Live. It is broadcast at six minutes past six on Saturday evenings.

607 is DCVII in Roman numerals.

Section 608 of the Australina Corporations Act (2001) deals with relevant interests in securities. It culminates with the fascinating conclusion, "This section may result in a body corporate having a relevant interest in its own securities."

609 reads exactly the same if you turn it upside down.

610bus takes you to the http://www.heritagemuseum.gov.hk a fascinating place!

Looking to buy some children's and baby's fashions?

Look no further than 611 Lisburn Road, Belfast, where Zeo (America) will meet all your needs!




(N.B. This post is for illustrative purposes only and does not constitute a commercial advertisement. Dsimpy has no financial interest in Zeo (America) fashions. Honest!)

Van Gogh's correspondence is collected at this site: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html

In letter number 612 he complains of the white man's crude treatment of cannibalistic tribes:


"....cannibals in the sense that let’s say an individual was eaten once a month, and what of that?
The whites, very Christian, etc., to put an end to this barbarity? really not very savage...., could think of nothing better than to exterminate both the tribe of cannibal natives and the tribe with which the former was at war (in order to obtain the requisite edible prisoners of war on both sides). Then the two islands were annexed, and did they become dismal!!! Those tattooed races, those negroes, those Indians, everything, everything, everything disappears or is corrupted."



Of Gauguin he writes:

"...everything his hand makes has a sweet, heart-rending, astonishing character. People don’t understand him yet, and he suffers greatly from not selling, like other true poets..."


Van Gogh bought "Among the Mangoes" for 400 francs.

The number 613 hangs from the rafters at Madison Square Gardens in honour of New York Knicks coach Red Holzman's 613 victories.

The Melbourne 614 is a Salvation Army Project to help the homeless.

The year 615 (DCXV) started on a Wednesday!

616 is the Number of the Beast.

Yes, I know you thought it was 666 but some scholars are arguing that it was originally 616 and they have the early bible pages that they say prove it, and that 666 might just have been a typo. I feel a bit foolish about that tattoo now.

617

617 Squadron, RAF, "The Dambusters" was a single squadron formed during the Second World War to carry out a dangerous task.

618 is the number of rhinos slaughtered for their horns by poachers in South Africa this year alone.

Last year 448 were killed so it's a considerable rise. It seems the trade in rhino horn is on the rise, especially in Vietnam. It's obviously highly lucrative as the traders risk jail sentences of 20 or 40 years. If this scale of poaching continues, rhinos could be extinct within decades.


Read the full story in the National Geographic.
Warning: contains graphic photo.

On this day in the year 619, Pope Boniface V succeeds Pope Adeodatus I as the 69th pope.

The Rickenbacker 620 is a solid-body guitar manufactured by the Rickenbacker International Corporation