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The terametre (SI symbol: Tm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1 000 000 000 000 meters (10 12 m). To help compare different distances, this section lists lengths starting at 10 12 m (1 Tm or 1 billion km or 6.7 astronomical units). ≈1 Tm – 6.7 au – diameter of the red supergiant Betelgeuse based on multiple angular ...
Georg Gronau imagines the Pieza de las Furias as it must once have been: . We can still imagine the general effect of the room when the pictures adorned it. Four colossal single figures (each picture measures more than two metres square), superhuman in form, struggling in torment, with a grand gloomy background suited to their dark-coloured bodies.
Ancient Greek texts show that the span was used as a fixed measure in ancient Greece since at least archaic period.The word spithame (Greek: "σπιθαμή"), "span", [4] is attested in the work of Herodotus [5] in the 5th century BC; however, the span was used in Greece long before that, since the word trispithamos (Greek: "τρισπίθαμος"), "three spans long", [6] occurs as early as ...
The Egyptian equivalent of the foot—a measure of four palms or 16 digits—was known as the djeser and has been reconstructed as about 30 cm (11.8 in). The Greek foot (πούς, pous) had a length of 1 / 600 of a stadion, [12] one stadion being about 181.2 m (594 ft); [13] therefore a foot was, at the time, about 302 mm (11.9 in). Its ...
1311–1549 Lincoln Cathedral: 160.0 m (524.9 ft) 238 years Lincoln: Tallest ever building until 1890, only then was its original height surpassed by Ulm Minster; spire collapsed in 1549; current height 83.0 m (272.3 ft) 1549–1569 St. Mary's Church: 151.0 m (495.4 ft) −5.4% 20 years (94 years) Stralsund
In a new report on the massacre, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said at least 134 men and 73 women, most of them elderly residents accused of witchcraft, were killed in ...
The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm (9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) and height 320 mm (12 + 1 ⁄ 2 in).
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!