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The Akita is a powerful, dominant, and loyal breed, commonly aloof with strangers, but affectionate and deeply loyal to its family. As a breed, Akitas are generally hardy. The two separate varieties of Akita are a pure Japanese strain, called Akita Inu or Akita-ken, and a larger mixed strain, commonly referred to as the "American Akita". [1]
The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
This is a table of notable American exchange-traded funds, or ETFs. As of 2020, the number of exchange-traded funds worldwide was over 7,600, [ 1 ] representing about 7.74 trillion U.S. dollars in assets. [ 2 ]
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) owns around $40 billion worth of American Express (NYSE: AXP) stock. American Express' market cap is around $220 billion, so Buffett ...
Low-cost index funds provide instant portfolios that might otherwise take years or even decades to build if you cobbled them together on a share-by-share basis. A single investment gives you an...
9.68 pounds (4.39 kg) New Land Pattern: 1802–1854 Issued only to the Foot Guards and 4th Regiment of Foot: 39 inches (990 mm) 55.5 inches (1,410 mm) 10.06 pounds (4.56 kg) New Light Infantry Land Pattern: 1811–1854 Issued only to the 43rd, 51st, 52nd, 68th, 71st and 85th Light Infantry and the Battalions of the 60th Foot not armed with rifles.
A federal judge sentenced an American Airlines mechanic to nine years for attempting to smuggle 25 pounds of cocaine worth $250,000 into the US.
A January 1943 report on Russian anti-tank tactics by the American Intelligence Bulletin attributes the following to an unnamed Soviet intelligence officer: "Each artillery battalion and, in some cases, each artillery battery, had a mobile reserve of 5 to 8 combat engineers equipped with 4 to 5 mines each. Their function was to mine unguarded ...