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The Mondopoint shoe length system is widely used in the sports industry to size athletic shoes, ski boots, skates, and pointe ballet shoes; it was also adopted as the primary shoe sizing system in the Soviet Union, [18] Russia, [19] East Germany, China, [20] Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, and as an optional system in the United Kingdom, [21 ...
I have tagged shoe size#length as uncited and tagged specifically as dubious the claim This is the basis for current UK and North American shoe sizes, with the largest shoe size taken as twelve inches (a size 12). (Straight away, a US 12 is smaller than a UK 12.) The article foot (unit) says 13 (UK), 14 (US male), 15.5 (US female) or 48 (EU ...
Clothes-size label with EN 13402-3 pictogram and body dimensions in centimetres (found on a high-visibility jacket sold in the United Kingdom). BS 3666:1982 Specification for size designation of women's wear; BS 6185:1982 Specification for size designation of men's wear
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled. All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam , include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel.
The Longcase Clock. Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club (1981). Smith, Alan. The International Dictionary of Clocks. London: Chancellor Press (1996). Stephens, Carlene E. (2002). On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock (First ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-8212-2779-3. Tardy. French Clocks the World Over ...
This is a list of countries (or regions) by total road network size, both paved and unpaved. Also included is additional data on the length of each country or region's controlled-access highway network (also known as a motorway, expressway, freeway, etc.), designed for high vehicular traffic.
China extends as far west as 73°E, but all parts of it use UTC+08:00 , so solar "noon" can occur as late as 15:00 in western portions of China such as Xinjiang. [42] The Afghanistan-China border marks the greatest terrestrial time zone difference on Earth, with a 3.5 hour difference between Afghanistan's UTC+4:30 and China's UTC+08:00.