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  2. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...

  3. Acuity Insurance - Wikipedia

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    The steel pole was 338 feet (103 m) high, 6 feet (1.8 m) wide at the base, weighed 65 tons (without the flag), and was sunk into a 550-cubic yard block of concrete that was 40 feet (12 m) deep, 8 feet (2.4 m) wide and reinforced by steel rods. The American flag was 120 feet (37 m) by 60 feet (18 m), or 7,200 square feet (670 m 2).

  4. Chevrolet Bolt - Wikipedia

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    The EPA classifies the Bolt as "small station wagon", with less than 130 cu ft (3,681.2 L) of interior volume. [4] [64] GM refers to the Bolt as a crossover and puts it under the category of SUV on its website. [65] [66] The passenger volume is 94 cu ft (2,700 L), and cargo space is 17 cu ft (480 L) [67] (381 liter). [68]

  5. Trump is laying the groundwork for his 'drill, baby, drill ...

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    Trump's Cabinet picks for Interior, Energy, and EPA are allies of the oil and gas industry. They plan to expand drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and on federal lands and roll back climate rules.

  6. Cubic foot - Wikipedia

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    The cubic foot (symbol ft 3 or cu ft) [1] is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot ( 0.3048 m ) in length , or exactly 28.316 846 592 L, which is very close to ⁠ 1 / 35 ⁠ of a cubic metre ).

  7. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The definitions of United States customary units, such as the foot and pound, have been based on metric units since then. The 1895 Constitution of Utah, in Article X, Section 11, originally mandated that: "The Metric System shall be taught in the public schools of the State." This section was repealed, effective July 1, 1987. [16] [17]

  8. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Standards and Technology formerly contended that customary area units are defined in terms of the square survey foot, not the square international foot, [17] but from 2023 it states that "although historically defined using the U.S. survey foot, the statute mile can be defined using either definition of the foot, as is ...

  9. Student of Frank Lloyd Wright built this home on 20 acres, on ...

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    Square footage: 1,615 square feet. Lot size: 20 acres. Richard Lane is a freelance writer for the Des Moines Register. If you have a home we should feature, ...