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    The 489 series (489系?) was a limited express electric multiple unit (EMU) train type introduced in March 1972 by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in Japan, and later operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) until 2012.[1]
     
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    Boots The Chemist, 490 Oxford Street, London - Chemists - Dispensing near Marble Arch Tube Station.
     
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    It looks like you on evens and me on odds at the moment Woops

    491 is a 1964 Swedish black-and-white drama film directed by Vilgot Sjöman, based on a novel by Lars Görling.
     
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    492 (Solihull) Squadron Air Training Corps is one of four Air Cadet Squadrons in the Solihull area.
     
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    National Route 493 is a national highway of Japan. The highway connects Kochi, Kochi and Tōyō, Kochi. It has a total length of 98.3 kilometres (61.1 miles).
     
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    The family holding company of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was ordered on Tuesday to pay 494 million euros in damages stemming from the disputed purchase of publisher Mondadori.

    The final ruling by Italy's top appeals court was a fresh blow to Berlusconi, 76, already reeling from a supreme court verdict which confirmed a four-year jail sentence last month, commuted to one year, for massive fraud at his Mediaset television empire. The ruling in the long-running case came as Berlusconi postponed an announcement in which he is likely to steer away from moves to bring down the government, political sources said.
     
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    USS Swerve (AM-495/MSO-495) was an Aggressive-class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent the safe passage of ships.

    Swerve was the second ship to be so named by the U.S. Navy. It was laid down on 20 December 1954 by Broward Marine Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida as AM-495; redesignated as MSO-495 on 7 February 1955; launched on 1 November 1955; sponsored by Mrs. F. A. Denison; and commissioned on 27 July 1957, Lt. Comdr. K. H. Eaton in command.
     
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    The number 496 is a very important number in superstring theory. In 1984, Michael Green and John H. Schwarz realized that one of the necessary conditions for a superstring theory to make sense is that the dimension of the gauge group of type I string theory must be 496.

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    Not a lot of people know that!
     
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    497 Galaxy Explorer is a Classic Space set released in 1979 by LEGO. It contains a large spacecraft, a ground base with a landing pad and a small tower, a small space rover and four Classic Space astronauts (two red, two white).
     
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    The Caledonian Railway 498 Class was a class of 0-6-0 tank locomotives built for dock shunting. They were designed by John F. McIntosh for the Caledonian Railway (CR) and introduced in 1911. Twenty-three were built. They passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923 and to British Railways (BR) in 1948.
     
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    The 2013 Aaron's 499 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on May 5, 2013 at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.
     
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    €500 - the biggest note in the single currency

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    Levi's Men's 501 Original Fit Jeans.
     
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    In the year 502 the Persian philosopher Mazdak declares private property to be the source of all evil.
     
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    Theatre503, Euan Borland Productions and Tara Finney Productions present Land Of Our Fathers, by Chris Urch. Entertainment Focus.
     
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    504- the number of hours spent on Wikipedia researching the dubious nonsense on this thread.
     
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    I'm still eating 5 FABs a day and counting the hundreds and thousands on them to verify one of your posts from the last list <laugh>
     
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    The song 505 appears on the album Favourite Worst Nightmare, by the Arctic Monkeys.
     
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    The TKB-506 (Russian: &#1058;&#1050;&#1041;-506) was a small handgun designed to look like a cigar tin or lighter, developed by Igor Stechkin, allegedly on the orders of the KGB.[1]
     
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    The BMW 507 is a roadster produced by BMW from 1956 to 1959.
     
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