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2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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   4.600 Mm – width of the Mediterranean Sea; 4.800 Mm – length of the Sahara; 4.800 Mm – widest width of Atlantic Ocean (U.S.-Northern Africa) 5.100 Mm – distance from Dublin to New York as the crow flies; 6.270 Mm – length of the Mississippi-Missouri River system; 6.380 Mm – length of the Yangtze River; 6.400 Mm – Length of the ...

3. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   American surveyors use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4 rods, each of 16.5 ft or 100 links of 0.66 feet. A link is abbreviated "lk", and links "lks", in old deeds and land surveys done for the government.

4. Round table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot. Today, round tables are often used at conferences involving many parties. The most famous modern round table was the one used for talks between the Communist government and Solidarity in Poland in 1989; see: Polish Round Table Agreement. Hence, the term ...

5. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   The recent formula used by the Brannock device assumes a foot length of 2 barleycorns less than the length of the last; thus, men's size 1 is equivalent to a last's length of 8 + 1 ⁄ 3 in (21.17 cm) and foot's length of 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (19.47 cm), and children's size 1 is equivalent to 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (10.8 cm) last's length and 3 + 7 ⁄ 12 in ...

6. .30-06 Springfield wildcat cartridges - Wikipedia

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   The 226 Express subvariant, reduces shoulder and neck diameter with a long, slender body taper on the 30-06 case. [6] Experimentation during the mid-20th century indicated no practical benefit from the incremental volume increase of the 63 mm-long 30-06 case over the 57 mm-long 7mm Mauser case for .22 caliber bullets. [7]

7. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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   [6] The statdaraf (statD) is a unit of electric elastance equal to 1/statF. [6] The statweber is a unit of magnetic flux, corresponding to 299.792 458 Wb. [7] [6] The stattesla is a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 statWb⋅cm −2, corresponding to 2.997 924 58 MT. [7]