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The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to 4 in (101.6 mm). It is used to measure the height of horses in many English-speaking countries, including Australia, [1] Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [2] It was originally based on the breadth of a human hand.
Allen Fisher (born 1944) is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival. Fisher was born in London and started writing poetry in 1962. In the late 1960s, he was involved with Fluxshoe, the United Kingdom offshoot of Fluxus , and performance has remained an important part of his practice. [ 1 ]
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Hand-recognition payment, also named pay-by-hand is a payment method that uses the scanning of one's hand. [12] It is an alternative payment system to using credit cards. The technology uses biometric identification by scanning the client's hand and reading various features like the position of veins and bones and it was tested by Amazon since ...
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Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln). Prussian ell. An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinÅ, cognate with Latin ulna) [1] is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand).