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  2. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    A US fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 16 ⁠ of a US pint (about 1·04 UK fluid ounces or 29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 20 ⁠ of a UK pint (about 0·96 US fluid ounce or 28.4 mL). On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, a UK gallon is 8 UK pints (160 UK fluid ounces; about 1·2 US gallons or 4.546 litres), whereas the US gallon is ...

  4. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    The imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb (50.802 345 44 kg), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb (45.359 237 kg). In both systems, 20 hundredweights make a ton. In the US, the terms long ton (2240 lb, 1 016.046 9088 kg) and short ton (2000 lb; 907.184 74 kg) are used.

  5. English units - Wikipedia

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    Mercantile stone 12 lb L ≈ 5.6 kg Butcher's stone 8 lb ≈ 3.63 kg Sack 26 st = 364 lb ≈ 165 kg The carat was once specified as four grains in the English-speaking world. Some local units in the English dominion were (re-)defined in simple terms of English units, such as the Indian tola of 180 grains. Tod This was an English weight for wool ...

  6. Most-Watched Television Networks: Ranking 2024’s Winners and ...

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    Below are the primetime rankers for broadcast, cable and premium cable networks in 2024, among total viewers (as well as the top 50 list in adults 18-49).

  7. If college football coaches want transfer portal fix, how ...

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    Preston Stone, the backup quarterback for playoff qualifier SMU, entered the portal, but he’s remained with the Mustangs as they prepare to face Penn State in the CFP's first round.

  8. Can cold weather make you sick? Your grandma wasn't entirely ...

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    People can get sick from COVID-19 and flu year-round, including in tropical regions, Pekosz added, but there needs to low enough humidity for transmission to occur.

  9. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    The apothecaries and troy pounds are divided into 12 ounces (of 480 grains) while the avoirdupois pound has 16 ounces (of 437.5 grains). The unit of volume, the gallon , has different values in the United States and in the United Kingdom – the US fluid gallon being about 0.83 imperial gallons and the US dry gallon being about 0.97 imperial ...