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Acre: 4,047 m 2: An area of land one chain (four rods) wide by one furlong in length. As the traditional furlong could vary in length from country to country, so did the acre. In England an acre was 4,840 square yards (4,050 m 2), in Scotland 6,150 square yards (5,140 m 2) and in Ireland 7,840 square yards (6,560 m 2). It is a Saxon unit ...
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
San Mateo [a] (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ oʊ / ⓘ SAN mə-TAY-oh) is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.About 20 miles (32 km) south of San Francisco, the city borders Burlingame to the north, Hillsborough to the west, San Francisco Bay and Foster City to the east and Belmont to the south.
Acre (Portuguese: ⓘ) is a state located in the west of the North Region of Brazil and the Amazonia Legal.Located in the westernmost part of the country, at a two-hour time difference from Brasília, Acre is bordered clockwise by the Brazilian states of Amazonas and Rondônia to the north and east, along with an international border with the Bolivian department of Pando to the southeast, and ...
Dana Point (/ ˌ d eɪ n ə-/) is a city located in southern Orange County, California, United States.The population was 33,107 at the 2020 census.It has one of the few harbors along the Orange County coast; with ready access via State Route 1, it is a popular local destination for surfing.
Armstrong's layout for the town consisted of 12 four-acre (16,000 m 2) squares built on the hill overlooking the Cumberland as to protect against floods. [ citation needed ] The primary streets (from north to south) that went east–west were named Jefferson, Washington (now College Street), Franklin, Main, and Commerce Streets.