The total number of votes in the United States Electoral College is 538.

539 BC - The Fall of Babylon, to Cyrus the Great, and the start of arguably "the world's first human rights charter", known as the Cyrus Cylinder.

540 lives were lost when the Turkish frigate "Ertugrul" sank in 1890 off Japan, after a typhoon hit it.

Pele scored 541 goals in Brazil's Top Division during his career.

542 is the reverse of the amount of home runs Derek Jeter has (as of 5/29/12 - he has 245).

Sorry if that's bad, I couldn't find much for this one.

December 16, 2013 is 543 days away from today.

From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1919)

Poem No. 544


544. Lucy Ashton's Song


LOOK not thou on beauty's charming;
Sit thou still when kings are arming;
Taste not when the wine-cup glistens;
Speak not when the people listens;
Stop thine ear against the singer;
From the red gold keep thy finger;
Vacant heart and hand and eye,
Easy live and quiet die.


~ Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832

Figure 545 in Grey's Anatomy of the Human Body is the femoral sheath laid open to show its three compartments.

http://www.bartleby.com/107/illus545.html

My limited understanding is that the femoral sheath holds the large veins and arteries that are in your leg.
Any corrections to my post will be gladly accepted.

1 President
1 Vice-President
435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives
100 senators
9 appointed justices of the Supreme Court
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546 = The United States government.

The Avro 547 was a triplane built shortly after World War 1. QANTAS bought one and used it once before deciding it was totally unsuitable. It was designed for a pilot and 4 passengers.

548AD ~ Death of The Empress Theodora.


Who? Daughter of a circus bear-trainer, co-ruler of Byzantium, trail-blazer.


V Short Biography ~ From Prostitute to Empress.

This quiz was the 549th quiz template to be created. It is downright impossible to determine the 549th quiz to go online!
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz.cfm?qid=549

James Dean famously owned (and fatally crashed) a Porsche 550, or Spyder, affectionately named "Little B******".

Form number I-551 is the "Green Card".

U-552 was a German submarine in WWII.

Nicknamed the red devil, she sank "USS Reuben James" in 1941; this was the first US warship to be sank in the war, and happened when the US was still neutral.

305 809 is 553 squared.

The Lewis & Clark Expedition across America officially started from Illinois in 1804 and reached the Pacific Ocean on the 554th day.



They had travelled more than 4000 miles by foot, horse, and canoe, upriver along the Missouri River, and through Montana. They stayed at the Pacific for the winter then turned around and travelled the whole route again back to the East Coast. The entire round trip took 2 years, 4 months and 9 days.

For a great site about it, and for fascinating diary extracts, see here: http://lewisandclarktrail.com/index.html

(I'm hooked now, and have to read the whole journal.)



Edit: corrected date & added links.

Domenico Scarlatti composed 555 keyboard sonatas, according to the Kirkpatrick catalogue.

The standard NATO rifle cartridge is 5.56x45mm, commonly referred to as the 556.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (2010)

PG-13

Running Time: 557 minutes"


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The Siege of AR-558 is the 158th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Birmingham, UK, is the home of a complex road interchange system of raised roads criss-crossing each other over 5 height levels and 30 acres, and looking a bit like like a plate of spaghetti.

Hence its nickname "Spaghetti Junction".

The roads are raised on large columns, some of them 80 ft high.

There are 559 columns.

560 A.D

"Clotaire I of the Franks crushes a revolt led by his son Chramne, who conspired with Clotaire's late brother Childebert and then joined forces with Breton revels. Defeated in battle, Chramne is put to death on his father's orders." http://www.enotes.com/6th-century-d-reference/6th-century-d

561 is the area telephone code for Palm Beach County, the largest (and wealthiest per capita) county in Florida USA.

"562 is the number of Native American (including Alaskan) Nations, or "Tribes," recognized by the USA government." http://www.ask.com/wiki/562