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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Smoot was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall. [18] Google Earth and Google Calculator include the smoot as a unit of measurement. The Cambridge (Massachusetts) police department adopted the convention of using Smoots to measure the locations of accidents and incidents on the bridge.

  3. List of states and union territories of India by area - Wikipedia

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    Rank State / Union Territory Area (km 2) Region % total 1 (S1) Rajasthan: 342,239 Western: 10.411 2 (S2) Madhya Pradesh: 308,252 Central: 9.377 [a]3 (S3) Maharashtra

  4. Port Washington, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    When the project was completed in 1871, [5] the harbor was a channel 14 feet (4.3 meters) deep and 1,500 feet (460 meters) long in which ships could dock to unload as well as shelter during storms. [20] The City of Port Washington was incorporated in 1882.

  5. Comparison of American and Canadian football - Wikipedia

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    In Canadian rules, the distance between the sideline and hash marks is 24 yards (21.9 m); in 2022, the CFL narrowed the hash mark spacing to 9 yards (8.2 m). [6] In American amateur rules, at the high school level, the distance is 17 yards 2 feet 4 inches (16.3 m), sectioning the field into three almost equal columns.

  6. Standard wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    A standard wire gauge. British Standard Wire Gauge (often abbreviated to Standard Wire Gauge or SWG) is a unit for denoting wire size given by BS 3737:1964 (now withdrawn). It is also known as the Imperial Wire Gauge or British Standard Gauge.

  7. Agartala - Wikipedia

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    Agartala (/ ˌ ʌ ɡ ər t ə ˈ l ɑː /, Bengali: [agorot̪ɔla] ⓘ, Kok Borok:) [6] is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Tripura, situated on the banks of Haora/Saidra River, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the border with Bangladesh [7] and about 2,499 km (1,552 mi) from the national capital, New Delhi. [8]

  8. Krag–Jørgensen - Wikipedia

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    Danish M.1889 carbine. After strenuous tests, Denmark adopted the Krag–Jørgensen rifle on July 3, 1889. The Danish rifle differed in several key areas from the weapons later adopted by the United States and Norway, particularly in its use of a forward (as opposed to downward) hinged magazine door, the use of rimmed ammunition, and the use of an outer steel liner for the barrel.

  9. Luis Walter Alvarez - Wikipedia

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    The Glaser device was a small glass cylinder (1 cm × 2 cm) filled with ether. By suddenly reducing the pressure in the device, the liquid could be placed into a temporary superheated state, which would boil along the disturbed track of a particle passing through. Glaser was able to maintain the superheated state for a few seconds before ...