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  2. Template:Convert - Wikipedia

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    Converts measurements to other units. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers inline formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Value 1 The value to convert. Number required From unit 2 The unit for the provided value. Suggested values km2 m2 cm2 mm2 ha sqmi acre sqyd sqft sqin km m cm mm mi yd ft in kg g mg lb oz m/s km/h mph K C F m3 cm3 mm3 L mL cuft ...

  3. Tikamgarh - Wikipedia

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    The district is named after its headquarter, Tikamgarh. The original name of the town was Tehri. In 1780, the ruler of Orchha Vikramajit (1776–1817) shifted his capital from Orchha to Tehri and renamed it Tikamgarh (Tikam is one of the names of Krishna) Because Raja Vikramajit Is A Devotie Of Lord Krishna.

  4. Ruled paper - Wikipedia

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    Initially, paper was ruled by hand, sometimes using templates. [1] Scribes could rule their paper using a "hard point," a sharp implement which left embossed lines on the paper without any ink or color, [2] or could use "metal point," an implement which left colored marks on the paper, much like a graphite pencil, though various other metals were used.

  5. Duhok - Wikipedia

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    The inscriptions refer to Demetrius, the region's ruler during that time. [ 16 ] Seven kilometers southwest of Duhok, Halamata Cave is an archaeological site containing the Assyrian relief carvings known as the Maltai Reliefs, associated with the northern canal system built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BCE) to carry water to ...

  6. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    Most scholars date the tablet to the 25th to 24th century BC. Hills are shown by overlapping semicircles, rivers by lines, and cities by circles. The map also is marked to show the cardinal directions. [13] An engraved map from the Kassite period (14th–12th centuries BC) of Babylonian history shows walls and buildings in the holy city of ...

  7. The Scale of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    Average size of a snowflake: 10 −2 meters — Coffee bean: 10 −2 meters 10 −2 meters Microwave wavelength 10 −2 meters 10 −2 meters Hummingbird egg 1.2 × 10 −2 meters — Glass marble — 1.5 × 10 −2 meters U.S. penny — 1.9 × 10 −2 meters Square inch: 2.54 × 10 −2 meters 2.5 × 10 −2 meters Quail egg 3 × 10 −2 ...

  8. Kumukh - Wikipedia

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    General and historian Vasily Potto wrote: "The Arabs have put someone named Shah-Bal the ruler of the Laks". [4] In 778 the construction of the first mosque was completed in Kumukh and Islam got established in Lakia. Gazi-Kumukh had been in the past a large trading and political center of Dagestan and capital of Gazikumukh Khanate.

  9. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    'A Map of the Myriad Countries of the World'; Italian: Carta Geografica Completa di tutti i Regni del Mondo, "Complete Geographical Map of all the Kingdoms of the World"), printed by Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci at the request by Wanli Emperor in 1602, is the first known European-styled Chinese world map (and the first Chinese map to ...