The 213 was a hip hop group from Long Beach, California, which began the careers of Snoop Dogg, Warren G (stepbrother to Dr. Dre) and Nate Dogg (Snoop Dogg's cousin). In 2004, they reunited to release the album The Hard Way, which reached #4 in the U.S. Billboard 200 charts. It featured the singles, "Groupie Luv" and "So Fly". The band's name comes from the area code of Long Beach at the time.
North American area code 213 is a California telephone area code which was one of the first three area codes created in California in October 1947. It originally contained all of Southern California and was generally associated with Los Angeles.
Over the years it has been subdivided a number of times and is now completely surrounded by the 323 area code, it contains only downtown Los Angeles and its immediate environs.
* Area code 213 is one of the first three area codes created in California. This was the primary telephone area code for Los Angeles County, California during the 1960s and 1970s. Eventually it would be reduced in size mostly to cover the downtown area of the city of Los Angeles.
* 213 Lilaea is a main belt asteroid.
* 213 was the name of a hip hop group, active 1990-2004.
* 213 is the code for character "Õ" in codepages such as ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.
* Radical 213 meaning "turtle" is one of only two of the 214 Kangxi radicals that are composed of 16 strokes.
* 213 is the lowest number whose successor doesn't have its own article in Wikipedia as of September 2008.
* The 213 vote in the U.S. Senate (109th Congress) dealt with a bill to ensure jobs for our future with secure, affordable, and reliable energy. Vote Counts: YEAs 74 NAYs 26
* 213 was a WWII SQUADRON - Fighter, Hawker Hurricane Mk I
On 8 March 1937, No 213 was reformed as a fighter squadron at Northolt with Gauntlets and moved to Yorkshire in July. In January 1938, Hurricanes began to arrive and the squadron was fully equipped by the beginning of March. On the outbreak of war, flew fighter patrols and in May 1940, sent a detachment to France to assist the hard-pressed squadrons of Air Component of the BEF for a few days, the whole squadron moving south early in June.
* 213 is the number of balloons a 13-year-old boy in BLAINE, Wash. wants to claim as his world record for blowing them with his nose. Using one nostril at a time, Andrew Dahl inflated 213 balloons within an hour in the town's public library. His feat has been submitted for review by Guinness World Records.
* 213 is the fuselage number of the Concorde aircraft that holds the world record for fastest flights around the world in both directions:
Westbound RTW: 12-13 October 1992: 32 hours 49 minutes 03 seconds Lisbon-Santo Domingo-Acapulco-Honolulu-Guam-Bangkok- Bahrain-Lisbon Eastbound RTW: 15-16 August 1995: 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds New York/JFK-Toulouse-Dubai-Bangkok-Guam (Andersen AFB)- Honolulu-Acapulco-New York/JFK The Eastbound (1995) record is the current GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS official world record.
