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The labor (/ l ə ˈ b ɔːr / in West Texas) is a unit of area, used to express an area of land, that is equal to 1 million square varas. A labor is equivalent to about 177.1 acres (71.67 ha ). It was used in the archaic system of old Spanish land grants affecting Texas and parts of adjoining states.
The centavo (Spanish and Portuguese 'one hundredth') is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world. [1] The term comes from Latin centum (lit. ' one hundred '), with the added suffix -avo ('portion').
In 493 AD, Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144." [6]
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Legua nautica (nautical league): Between 1400 and 1600 the Spanish nautical league was equal to four Roman miles of 4,842 feet, making it 19,368 feet (5,903 metres or 3.1876 modern nautical miles). However, the accepted number of Spanish nautical leagues to a degree varied between 14 1/6 to 16 2/3, so in actual practice the length of a Spanish ...
50 Spanish Baby Names for Girls That Are Just Too Sweet. Emma Singer. June 24, 2024 at 12:31 PM. ... Equal parts fierce and pretty with a meaning to match: “defender of womankind.” ...
The pre-1974 former British English word billion, post-1961 current French word billion, post-1994 current Italian word bilione, Spanish billón, German Billion, Dutch biljoen, Danish billion, Swedish biljon, Finnish biljoona, Slovenian bilijon, Polish bilion, and European Portuguese word bilião (with a different spelling to the Brazilian ...
The Detroit Lions have a seemingly endless bucket of trick plays to pick from. Earlier this season, they ran a hook-and-ladder play to Penei Sewell, their fantastic 335-pound left tackle.