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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  3. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The Mondopoint shoe length system is widely used in the sports industry to size athletic shoes, ski boots, skates, and pointe ballet shoes; it was also adopted as the primary shoe sizing system in the Soviet Union, [18] Russia, [19] East Germany, China, [20] Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, and as an optional system in the United Kingdom, [21 ...

  4. Thread (yarn) - Wikipedia

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    A spool of thread may be described in terms of its "single's equivalent". This is the cotton count size of the thread divided by the number of plies which make it up. A spool of 30/3 thread has a single's equivalent of 10, because a single strand or ply of that thread has a cotton count size of 10.

  5. Goodyear welt - Wikipedia

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    The components of a Goodyear welted shoe. A Goodyear welt is a strip of leather, rubber, or plastic that runs along the perimeter of a shoe outsole. [1] The basic principle behind the Goodyear welt machine was invented in 1862 by Auguste Destouy, who designed a machine with a curved needle to stitch turned shoes.

  6. Embroidery - Wikipedia

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    A pair of Chinese shoes for bound 'lily' feet Embroidered book cover made by Elizabeth I at the age of 11, presented to Katherine Parr 19th century women's thobe from Palestine. Depending on time, location and materials available, embroidery could be the domain of a few experts or a widespread, popular technique.

  7. Sewing machine needle - Wikipedia

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    In both cases, a larger number corresponds to a larger, heavier needle. Most sewing machine needles will have packaging that gives both of these numbers in its size description — (e.g. as either 100/16 or 16/100). The length of all sewing machine needles has been standardized and does not require a separate code.

  8. The future of the internet looks a lot like Reddit - AOL

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    This broadening of the platform has also been reflected in the business. Reddit went public earlier this year at a $6.4 billion valuation, and last quarter, the 20-year-old company turned a profit ...

  9. Sewing machine - Wikipedia

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    An additional looper above the material can form a top cover stitch simultaneously. The needle threads form parallel rows, while the looper threads cross back and forth all the needle rows. Coverstitch is so-called because the grid of crossing needle and looper threads covers raw seam edges, much as the overlock stitch does.

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