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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    Since 2019, defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. 2.72 m Height of Robert Wadlow, tallest-known human. [31] 8.38 m Length of a London bus (AEC Routemaster) 10 1: 1 decameter 33 m

  3. Foot-candle - Wikipedia

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    In the US lighting industry, foot-candles are a common unit of measurement used by architects to calculate adequate lighting levels. Foot-candles are also commonly used in the museum and gallery fields in the US, where lighting levels must be carefully controlled to conserve light-sensitive objects such as prints, photographs, and paintings, the colors of which fade when exposed to bright ...

  4. Metre per second squared - Wikipedia

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    The metre per second squared is the unit of acceleration in the International System of Units (SI). As a derived unit, it is composed from the SI base units of length, the metre, and time, the second.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    A unit of time is any particular time interval, used as a standard way of measuring or expressing duration. The base unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), and by extension most of the Western world , is the second , defined as about 9 billion oscillations of the caesium atom.

  6. How, Exactly, Did This Gator Climb a Fence? - AOL

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    Why Did the Gator Climb the Military Base’s Fence? The Jacksonville Naval Air Station is located on a peninsula with the St. John’s River to the west and the Ortega River to the east.

  7. Metre per second - Wikipedia

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    The benz, named in honour of Karl Benz, has been proposed as a name for one metre per second. [10] Although it has seen some support as a practical unit, [11] primarily from German sources, [10] it was rejected as the SI unit of velocity [12] and has not seen widespread use or acceptance.

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    “It’s going to take a lot of time, many months, maybe years, to repair the damage to our partnership with our trusted ally, Canada.” ...

  9. These are the fastest-growing job titles, according to ... - AOL

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    Hospitality and travel-related roles were among some of the fastest-growing jobs, according to LinkedIn's analysis of user data. (Thomas Barwick/Digital Vision/Getty Images)