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The term furlong, or shot, was also used to describe a grouping of adjacent strips within an open field. [3] Among the early Anglo-Saxons, the rod was the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was 40 rods; an acre 4 by 40 rods, or 4 rods by 1 furlong, and thus 160 square rods; there are 10 acres in a square furlong.
By the time he is ten years old, James is the sole survivor of the Furlong family. James is sent to St. Judes reformatory, but does not adjust easily to life there. Having been home-schooled on the farm, he is not equipped with the necessary social skills or abilities on the sports-field.
According to one report, it was on Gretorex's advice that the drama "left the factory floor for the executive suite". [1] At the end of the final Plane Makers series in January 1965, Wilder left Scott Furlong after a project for the Scott-Furlong Predator, a vertical takeoff aircraft, had failed, and took a seat on the board of a merchant bank while also collecting a knighthood. [2]
The surveyor is assisted by a chainman. A ranging rod (usually a prominently coloured wooden pole) is placed in the ground at the destination point. Starting at the originating point the chain is laid out towards the ranging rod, and the surveyor then directs the chainman to make the chain perfectly straight and pointing directly at the ranging ...
This is 5.5 yards. A rod length is not derived from yards but from furlongs and chains, of which it is a convenient submultiple. A rod is also sometimes called a pole, and my Dad told me of actually measuring off land by flipping off a 16.5 foot pole end over end while walking the boundaries of a rented field, to be sure it was the size described.
Ramblin' Rod Anders (November 26, 1932 – May 11, 2002), born Rodney Carl Andersen, was an American television presenter and the host of The Ramblin' Rod Show, a children's television program broadcast in Portland, Oregon, from August 26, 1964 until his retirement on August 8, 1997.
A Home of Our Own is a 1993 American drama film directed by Tony Bill, starring Kathy Bates and Edward Furlong. It is the story of a mother and her six children trying to establish a home in the small fictional town of Hankston, Idaho , in 1962.
Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973), and A Matter of Wife... and Death (1975).