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Ton society was intensely class-conscious and the social hierarchy was rigid. Members of the ton came from the aristocracy (nobility) and royalty. Though some wealthier members of the middle classes could marry into the lower ranks of the gentry, such unions were not completely accepted by the elite ton. Social positions could be altered or ...
The water ton is used chiefly in Great Britain, in statistics dealing with petroleum products, and is defined as 224 imperial gallons (35.96 cu ft; 1.018 m 3), [22] the volume occupied by 1 long ton (2,240 lb; 1,016 kg) of water under the conditions that define the imperial gallon.
TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob [2] located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 billion light-years from Earth.
A long ton, also called the weight ton (W/T), [1] imperial ton, or displacement ton, is equal to: 2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton , being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb)
1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x2 1918 1,012 Light repair truck for vehicles White 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 4x2: 1917–1919: Wide range of bodies Jeffery/Nash Quad [a] 2-ton 4x4: 1913–1928: 11,500+ Early models had 4-wheel steering Liberty truck 3-ton 4x2: 1917–1918: 9,452: built by 15 different manufacturers FWD Model B [b] 3-ton 4x4: 1912–1920: 16,000+ Wide ...
The first season was a playful, revisionist history at its best: The ton was a colorblind mix of races, the queen was Black, and twee orchestras performed 21st century pop hits at 19th century ...
Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...
The tonne (/ t ʌ n / ⓘ or / t ɒ n /; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI.It is also referred to as a metric ton in the United States to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary units) and the long ton (British imperial units).