Who cares?
It's a little amazing how little we know about the year 1600 (CE, but at the time, AD). Just looking at Wikipedia's page for the year, there are several unknown dates of things we know happened that year & people we know were born that year, but the dates are not exact. Also, there's a section called "probable." It might not have happened, but it's probable it did!
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the American President's residence, known as "the White House." The zip code, by the way, is 20500. In case you want to write something. Although there's also an email address, or rather, an online form. What? No "president@whitehouse.gov"?
Obama might be afraid George W. Bush still occasionally checks his mail at that address.
There's also a 1600 Smith Street, a giant office building in Houston, but you wouldn't want to visit there, let along email anyone who happened to be around. It's an office building in Houston, for pete's sake!
Ah, 1600 CE. Shakespeare wrote The Merchant Of Venice that year. Nothing that grand will ever ever come from this blog. In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. That's more of the mood around here, generally.
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