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where the number 666 has been used:<br />

1) Koehring and Clark equipment companies used 666 as part of the product<br />

identification number on certain models.<br />

2) Stickers distributed at DuPont Co. plants said: “To be in the know, call ‘Mom’ (666).”<br />

3) Products of the Bliss-Hastings Co. contained the number 666.<br />

4) The 85th Annual Frontiers Days Festival, held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, promoted July<br />

23, 1981 as “666 Rodeo Day.”<br />

5) The logo of Australia’s National Bank card contained a configuration of the number<br />

666.<br />

6) In August, 1980, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of Virginia notified their<br />

customers that the telephone number of the U.S. Weather Service was being changed<br />

from 936-1212, to 666-1212.<br />

7) Men’s dress shirts produced in China, and sold in the U.S., had the number 666 on the<br />

label, forming the trademark of Kerman Scott Ltd.<br />

8) At the official reopening of the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975, the first Egyptian warship<br />

entering it, which was carrying Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, had the number 666 on<br />

its bow.<br />

9) The World Bank code number was 666.<br />

10) Some credit cards in the U.S. had the numerical prefix of 666.<br />

11) The Olivetti Computer System P6060, used processing numbers which began with<br />

666.<br />

12) Sears, Belk, J. C. Penney, and Montgomery Ward computers were prefixing their<br />

transactions with the number 666, as mandated by its computer programming.<br />

13) Shoes made in Italy had 666 stamped on the inside label. It consisted of a circle,<br />

divided in half; with a horned lamb (see Rev. 13:11) on top, and the number 666 on the<br />

bottom. It was later put on all Common Market products.<br />

14) IBM computer equipment in supermarkets had the number 3X666 on them.<br />

15) Visa credit cards represent the number 666: the Roman numeral for 6 is “VI”; the<br />

number 6 in ancient Greek was taken from the sixth letter of their alphabet, the letter<br />

“stigma,” which looks like the English “S”; and in the Babylonian sexagesimal system,<br />

and “A” represented 6. Thus the word VISA forms the number 666.<br />

16) Computers manufactured by Lear Siegler, Inc. in the U.S. and shipped to Israel, had a<br />

seal on the side stamped with the number 666, which was later discontinued.<br />

17) The Federal Government Medicaid Service Employees Division number was 666.<br />

18) The Internal Revenue Service’s ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) Division had<br />

the number 666 on their employeés badges.<br />

19) In 1977, the IRS began requiring the number 666 as a prefix on forms for tax<br />

payments on Individual Retirement Accounts (form W-2P): Disability is 666.3, death is<br />

666.4, etc. After a lot of protest, it was omitted in 1978-79, but resumed in 1980-81.<br />

20) IRS instructions for the 1979 non-profit Corporation Employee W-2 form, required<br />

the prefix 666.<br />

21) Some states had the number 666 on their requisition paperwork.<br />

22) President Carter’s secret security force had patches with the number 666 on them.<br />

23) Chrysler Corporation manufactured tanks for President Carter’s secret security force<br />

that had the number 666 on the side.

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