Hi Boquinha,
What a nice surprise! Thank you for such a fun question to research.
From the Hyper dictionary:
ONE THOUSAND
Synonyms: 1000, 1000, a thousand, cardinal, chiliad, G, grand, k, K,
m, M, thou, thousand, thousand, yard
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/one+thousand
At 1000 Roxbury Drive is the former home of LUCILLE BALL, star of "I
Love Lucy."
http://www.seeing-stars.com/Live/RoxburyDrive.shtml
The Egyptians had a decimal system using seven different symbols.
1,000 is a drawing of a lotus plant (flower)
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm
http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html
There are:
1000 meters in a kilometer
1000 millimeters in a meter
1000 liters in a kiloliter
1000 milliliters in a liter
1000 grams in a kilogram
1000 milligrams in a gram
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/select/dm_metric.html
There are 1000 years in a millenium.
There are:
1000 micrograms in a milligram
1000 nanograms in one microgram
http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/services/environment/glossary.html
1,000 Milliseconds in a second
1,000 Microsecond in a millisecond
1,000 Nanoseconds in a microsecond
1,000 Picoseconds in a nanosecond
1,000 Femtoseconds in a picosecond
1,000 Attoseconds in a femtosecond
1,000 Zeptoseconds in an attosecond
http://charleston.net/stories/041303/wor_13small.shtml
There are 1000 millions in a billion
http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/downloads/pw/wqreport.pdf
The number 1000 is used 94 times in the Bible - 84 times in the OT and
10 times in the NT.
The number 1000 is used 4 times in the Koran. (Koran VIII,66, VIII,67,
XXII,46 and XCVII,3)
You may read more about the properties of the number 1000 here:
http://pages.globetrotter.net/sdesr/nu1000.htm
The Bible and Millennial Numbers
“Scripture itself lays great stress on the importance of the number
1,000. Psalm 90 (a prayer of Moses) mentions the millennial number in
the context of man's mortality and the natural limits of his life on
earth. “For a thousand years in Your [God's] sight are like yesterday
when it is past, and like a watch in the night . . . The days of our
lives are seventy years . . .”
http://www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn20/
There are 1000 possible number combinations for a 3-digit number from
000 to 999.
http://members.tripod.com/mathsmission/submit.htm
New Zealand: 1000 miles from top to bottom.
“New Zealand is about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) from top to
bottom and is about 325 km (200 miles) across at its widest point.”
http://www.panpacific.co.nz/InformationNZ/informationnz.htm
A picture is worth 1,000 words
A 35mm reel of film is about 1,000 feet of film (or usually a little
less).
http://ftv.chapman.edu/reference/glossary/detail.cfm?letter=s&s=
Victoria's marine waters are home to approximately:
1000 species of seaweeds and seagrasses
1000 species of sponges
1000 species of polychaetes (bristle worms)
1000 species of cnidarians (jelly fish, corals, etc)
http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1process_content.cfm?section=94&page=28
The UK has about 1000 species of moss.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030908/030908-8.html
1000 watts = 1 kilowatt (kW)
1000 kilowatts = 1 megawatt (MW)
1000 megawatts = 1 gigawatt (GW)
http://www.eere.energy.gov/power/pdfs/dollars_moreinfo.pdf
There are 1,000 ccs in a liter.
A run-of-the-mill tuna sandwich has about 830 calories, 56 grams of
fat and 10 grams of saturated fat. If you add chips, that equals 1,000
calories.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/GoodMorningAmerica/GMA020520Restaurant_feature.html
A typical restaurant meal has 1,000 calories, not counting dessert or
an appetizer. The calorie count for many fast food meals can go much
higher.
http://www.mealsmatter.org/EatingForHealth/focu_arti_08.html
To lose 2 pounds per week, a deficit of 1,000 calories per day is
required. http://www.thirdage.com/health/adam/ency/article/001940.htm
Air pollution kills 1,000 a year in Toronto.
“The study is based on 1995 air quality, but there has been no
significant improvement in air quality since that time”.
Reference: Globe and Mail May 18, 2000 page A19
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwsbe/faculty/rwigle/ec238/news/may-18-00.shtml
There are about 1,000 different kinds of bats in the world.
http://kids-learn.org/stellaluna/taylor.htm
http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?sourceid=00395996645644787198&btob=Y&endeca=1&isbn=0823416372&itm=8
http://www.nps.gov/brca/nabats.htm
Frogs, dragonflies, ladybugs, lacewings and several species of birds
also eat mosquitoes. Bats can eat 1000 per night.
http://www.greens.org/s-r/31/31-13b.html
“The biological diversity of species, or "biodiversity," is being lost
at an unprecedented rate, with an estimated 1,000 species per year
becoming extinct.”
http://www.usaid.gov/environment/imprcons.html
Maritime Fun Facts:
The world’s oceans contain 1000 species of sea anemones
http://www.ody.org/newsroom/fun_facts.htm
There are:
1,000 species of sea urchins
1,000 species of sea cucumbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinodermata
Add 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 and you'll get 1,000
http://www.deb2460.homestead.com/num.html
“The 1000 block of Lombard Street, between Hyde and Leavenworth, is
nicknamed "the crookedest street in the world" It has eight
switchbacks in its one-block descent. It was a little used cobbled
street with a 27 percent grade until 1922, when the corkscrew design
was installed by the city as a way of making the street accessible to
automobiles. Carl Henry, the founder of the Owl Drug Company, who
owned lots on the block, was the first to propose the design.”
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=006c1C
There are 1000 bricks in a Lego 1000-Piece Creator Fun Tub
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Lego+Creator+Fun+Tub+1000+pieces
One thousand in Morse Code:
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http://translate.ansme.com/words/o/one_thousand.html
How to say “thousand” in different languages:
English thousand
Italian mille
Spanish mil
French mille
German tausend
Afrikaans duisend
Albanian një mijë
Azeri (Latin Script) min
Basque mila
Bosnian hiljadu
Brazilian Portuguese mil
Breton mil
Catalan mil
Czech tisíc
Danish tusinde
Dutch duizend
Esperanto mil
Estonian tuhat
Faeroese túsund
Finnish tuhat
Flemish duizend
Guarani sa
Hungarian ezer
Icelandic ţúsund
Indonesian seribu
Irish míle
Kurdish Kurmanji hezar
Latin mille ; M
Latvian; Lettish tukstotis
Limburgian doezend
Lithuanian tūkstantis
Malagasy arivo
Mapunzugun waragka
Norwegian tusen
Portuguese mil
Quechua waranqa
Rapanui ho’e ta’utini
Romagnolo mil
Romanian o mie
Saami duhát
Sardinian Campidanesu milli
Slovak tisíc
Sundanese sarebu
Swahili elfu
Swedish tusen
Turkish bin
Valencian mil
Venetian mile
Welsh mil
Yiddish toyznd
http://www.logos.net/
There are 1942 books with the word thousand or thousands in the title
at Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/ref=s_sf_b_as/102-8613308-7687316
22,000,000 hits for the word “thousand” at Google
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%E2%80%9Cthousand%E2%80%9D
53,800,000 hits for ”1000” at Google
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%E2%80%9D1000%E2%80%9D
I have now answered 1000 questions at Google Answers.
Search Criteria: thousand OR 1000
Boquinha, thanks again for this special question to celebrate my
1000th answer as a researcher.
Best regards,
Bobbie7 |
