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The most common and convenient arrangement was to have one of the rulers slide within a groove made along the middle of the other, like an ordinary linear slide rule, as shown in the figure below. Another form had one ruler sliding alongside the other, and a third form had a common two-foot folding ruler with a groove along one side in which a ...
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 ...
An 8 1 ⁄ 2 hour concept album about sleep. Also available in a one-hour version if you're in a hurry. Sleepify: Silence is golden, especially when you're trying to fund a world tour. Smile: An unfinished Beach Boys album that is one of the most written-about and speculated-upon works in popular music history. Sweet Insanity
A mysterious "7ft" figure filmed walking through a remote part of Colorado has sent Bigfoot enthusiasts into a frenzy. Shannon Parker and Stetson Tyler were travelling on the Narrow Gauge train ...
The Clock is a film by video artist Christian Marclay.It is a looped 24-hour video supercut (montage of scenes from film and television) that feature clocks or timepieces. . The artwork itself functions as a clock: its presentation is synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual t
In this one-hour episode, the Jokers wreak havoc across the city of London. The guys serve up pints of awkwardness at a pub, try to sell ridiculous theatre tickets in the West End, team up to work at a fish and chips shop, and use their infamous bullhorns that are controlled by the other guys.
Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics), their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor Jr., who follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at a big-city hospital.
For example, in some Walmarts there are Hyper Tough brand tapes available in both US customary units and Metric units. Unlike US rulers, of which an overwhelming majority contain both centimeter and inch scales, tape measures are longer and thus traditionally have had scales in both inches and feet & inches. So, the inclusion of a metric scale ...