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A league is a unit of length.It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation.Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe.
Lunar distance LD ≈ 384 402 km. [10] Average distance between the center of Earth and the center of the Moon. astronomical unit au. Defined as 149 597 870 700 m. [11] Approximately the distance between the Earth and Sun. light-year ly ≈ 9 460 730 472 580.8 km. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. [12]
This is an old French league, defined as 10 000 (a myriad) pieds. It was the official league in parts of France until 1674. lieue de Paris: 12 000 3.898 km 2.422 miles This league was defined in 1674 as exactly 2000 toises. After 1737, it was also called the "league of bridges and roads" (lieue des Ponts et des Chaussées). lieue des Postes: 13 200
A yard line refers to the distance of some point on the 100-yard field of play – usually the line of scrimmage or the spot where a play ends – from the nearest goal line. [6] When moving away from one goal line, the yard line numbers increase from 1 to 50 (midfield), then decrease back to 1 approaching the opposite goal line.
Where the terminology may be ambiguous, the graphs in which non-edges must be a non-unit distance apart may be called strict unit distance graphs [3] or faithful unit distance graphs. [2] The subgraphs of unit distance graphs are equivalently the graphs that can be drawn in the plane using only one edge length. [ 4 ]
The present-day New Persian word is also farsakh (فرسخ), and should not be confused with the present-day farsang (فرسنگ), which is a metric unit. [ n 1 ] The earliest surviving mention of the parasang comes from the mid-5th-century BC Herodotus ( Histories ii.6, v.53, vi.42), who defines the measure to be equivalent to 30 stadia , or ...
Along the Inca roads relay stations were placed at half a league distance, where a league is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) or an hour walking. At each station, four to six slim, fit and young chasquis would stand in wait, with a roof or a hut to protect them from the sun and the rain. They carried the messages in turns in one direction or the other.
A partial view of the Green Monster at Fenway Park, with standings for the American League East division at the end of the 2007 Major League Baseball season. In sports, standings, rankings, or league tables group teams of a particular league, conference, or division in a chart based on how well each is doing in a particular season of a sports league or competition.