Counting Thread.

[Siz]

SONNET 146
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
These rebel powers that thee array;
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
   So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
   And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.

William Shakespeare.

[Siz]

147 - Highest break in snooker.

Here pictured Ronnie "the rocket" O'sullivan.
Fastest recorded 147 in history at 5'20".

[Gawen]

148 CE:
Rome's 900th anniversary.
China's Han Dynasty - Emperor Wu

148 BCE:
Corlea track built in Ireland

Bible:
After the exile, a census was done and Asaph had 148 sons: Nehemiah 7:44
Psalm 148 is highly exalted

US Navy has had 8 ships with the number 148
The TV series The Fresh Prince pf Bel Aire had 148 episodes
United Nations Security Council Resolution 148, adopted Republic of Niger for membership in the United Nations.

[Guardian85]

[Too Few Lions]

150

[Davin]

[MariaEvri]

[Amicale]

[Guardian85]

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(155mm howitzer)

[Thunder Road]

156 mph

the minimum maximum sustained wind for a category 5 hurricane

[Gawen]

The number 157 follows the number 156 and precedes number 158...*chucklin*

Form DS-157 is a US non-immigrant visa application form.

157 is the squadron number for a US Civil Air Patrol group.

Surat An-Nisa' [4:157] - And [for] their saying, "Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah ." And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him; but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

157th Air Refueling Wing, New Hampshire Air National Guard

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158 lens camera.

A camera developed at the Nagoya Institute of Technology has been certified by Guinness World Records to sport the most lenses in the world. The device has no less than 158 lenses. Associate professor Yojiro Ishino and his students built it to capture images of a swaying flame from as many angles as possible.

It took the team a total of six months to finish this monster. The lenses are attached in four rows on the body of the device, which is 7.2cm high and 47cm in diameter. Each lens costs $2.10.

The camera can also shoot 3D pictures of a flame by using CT technology. It received the Guinness certificate on November 24 already (but was on the news in Japan only today).

[MariaEvri]

alfa romeo 159

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(TU-160 Blackjack strategic bomber)