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It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states and this use of league is used throughout the Texas Constitution. A common Texas land grant size, discussed in James A. Michener's Texas, was a "labor and a league": a labor of good riparian land and a (square) league of land away from the ...
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An American tumbler is 1 ⁄ 2 of a US fluid pint, the same size as a cup. Whiskey Barrel: 53 US gallons: 44 Imp. gallons: 200 L: American Standard Barrel (ASB). An international standard measurement for whiskey. Whiskey Hogshead: 66 US gallons: 55 Imp. gallons--250 L: An international standard measurement for whiskey. Whiskey Butt: 132 US ...
It is a standard measurement of mass for agricultural products in those countries. In France it used to be defined as 100 livres (pounds), about 48.95 kg (108 lb), and has been redefined as 100 kg ( mesures usuelles ), thus called metric quintal with symbol qq .
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The Spanish geodesist was elected as the first president of the International Committee for Weights and Measures. His activities resulted in the distribution of a platinum and iridium prototype of the metre to all States parties to the Metre Convention during the first meeting of the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1889. These ...
A number of units were used. One vara (lit. "pole", "yard") was equal to 0.838 m (32.99 inches) as it was legally defined also use inches and feet. [1] Some other units and legal equivalents are given below:
The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is a Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 1,993,556 articles. It has 1,993,556 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013.