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Alternatively, the rule can be used to determine the equivalent flat distance of a route. This is achieved by recognising that Naismith's rule implies an equivalence between distance and climb in time terms: 3 miles (=15,840 feet) of distance is equivalent in time terms to 2000 feet of climb.
At one time, the definition of the nautical mile was based on the surface area of the Clarke ellipsoid. [further explanation needed] While the US used the full value of 1853.256 metres, in the British Commonwealth, this was rounded to 6080 feet (1853.184 m). These have been replaced by the international version (which rounds the 60th part of ...
From 1630 to 1718 a millia was 5,564 feet (1,696 metres), making a geographical league of four millias equal 22,256 feet (6,784 m or 3.663 modern nautical miles). But from 1718 through the 1830s the millia was defined as the equivalent of just over 5,210 feet, giving a shorter geographical league of just over 20,842 feet (6,353 m or 3.430 ...
The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs.
In the IANA time zone database, Tunisia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Tunis."TN" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Tunisia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [5]
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A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children to go to Eastern Europe is in police custody, online records show. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green ...
Donald Trump's legal blitz to halt his sentencing in his criminal hush money case in New York continued Tuesday morning with his lawyers filing a 502-page lawsuit against Judge Juan Merchan and ...