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In 21:16, the angel measures the city with a golden rod or reed, and records it as 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia at the base, and 12,000 stadia high. A stadion is usually stated as 185 meters, or 607 feet, so the base has dimensions of about 2220 km by 2220 km, or 1380 miles by 1380 miles.
The stadion (plural stadia, Ancient Greek: στάδιον; [1] latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet . Its exact length is unknown today; historians estimate it at between 150 m and 210 m.
Strabo noted that the distance between Rhodes and Alexandria is 3,750 stadia, and reported Posidonius's estimate of the Earth's circumference to be 180,000 stadia or 18,000 mi (29,000 km). [16] Pliny the Elder mentions Posidonius among his sources and—without naming him—reported his method for estimating the Earth's circumference.
The rest of the seating at Martin Stadium is mostly made up of bleachers. There are 5,000 bleacher seats on the north end of the field. On the east side, directly next to the lake, are 1,200 more ...
399 (East Auditorium) 2012 Green Music Center: 1,400 September 16, 2006 Stanford Stadium: Stanford: 50,000 December 2, 2005 Stockton Arena: Stockton: 12,000 September 9, 1981 Alex G. Spanos Center: 8,000 1927 Faye Spanos Concert Hall: 872 1925 Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium: 2,400 1930 Bob Hope Theatre: 2,042 June 24, 2002 Pechanga Casino ...
The following is a list of stadiums in the United States. They are ranked by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the stadium can normally accommodate. All U.S. stadiums with a current capacity of 10,000 or more are included in the list.
China’s leader Xi Jinping is to declare the Asian Games open at a lotus-shaped mega stadium in Hangzhou on Saturday. 12,000 athletes and a lotus-shaped mega stadium. The Asian Games comes to China
The stadium, dubbed “the Big Lotus” for the shape of its roof, consists of 28 large and 27 smaller petal-shaped structures. The stadium can hold 80,000 people, according to its operator.