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  2. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. Thomas Wilson Barnes - Wikipedia

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    Barnes went on a diet and lost 130 pounds (9st 4 lb, approx. 59 kg) in 10 months, which resulted in his death. [2] Barnes was buried 5 days after his death at the Brompton cemetery in London . [ 3 ]

  4. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    = 4.2 3 × 10 −4 m/s 2: inch per second squared: ips 2: ≡ 1 in/s 2 = 2.54 × 10 −2 m/s 2: knot per second: kn/s ≡ 1 kn/s ≈ 5.1 4 × 10 −1 m/s 2: metre per second squared (SI unit) m/s 2: ≡ 1 m/s 2 = 1 m/s 2: mile per hour per second: mph/s ≡ 1 mi/(h⋅s) = 4.4704 × 10 −1 m/s 2: mile per minute per second: mpm/s ≡ 1 mi/(min ...

  5. Weight class (boxing) - Wikipedia

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    44–46 kg (97.0–101.4 lb; 6.9–7.2 st) At the Olympics, each weight class is a separate single-elimination tournament awarding one gold, one silver and two bronze ...

  6. Quintal - Wikipedia

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    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. In Spain , the quintal is still defined as 100 libras , or about 46 kg (101 lb), but the metric quintal is also defined as 100 kg; [ 3 ] In Portugal a quintal is 128 ...

  7. Why Americans shifted, scrapped minutes and changed time ...

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    Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes. Those in Atlanta said goodbye to 22 ...

  8. Airplane returns to airport after takeoff after hitting a ...

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    A flight to China was cut short after the aircraft caught on fire after it hit a bird soon after takeoff in Rome, airport officials said.. The engine of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner operated by China ...

  9. Slug (unit) - Wikipedia

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    It is equivalent to 386.0886 pounds (175.1268 kg) based on standard gravity. [ 3 ] Similar (but long-obsolete) metric units included the glug (980.665 g) in a gravitational system related to the centimetre–gram–second system , [ 17 ] [ 18 ] and the mug , hyl , par , or TME ( German : technische Masseneinheit , lit.