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  2. Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

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    The 66-foot (20.1 m) chain is divided into 100 links, usually marked off into groups of 10 by brass rings or tags which simplify intermediate measurement. Each link is thus 7.92 inches (201 mm) long. A quarter chain, or 25 links, measures 16 feet 6 inches (5.03 m) and thus measures a rod (or pole).

  3. Square foot - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar ...

  4. Rabbit Ears Pass - Wikipedia

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    The Rabbit Ears Pass area covers 56 square miles in north central Colorado at the junction of the Rabbit Ears Range and the Park Range. The Rabbit Ear Pass highway, which is one of the most important transcontinental road links in the nation, was built by the state of Colorado, Routt, Grand, and Jackson counties, and the United States Forest ...

  5. Lake Michigan - Wikipedia

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    It is 307 miles (494 km) long by 118 miles (190 km) wide with a shoreline 1,640 miles (2,640 km) long. The lake's average depth is 46 fathoms 3 feet (279 ft; 85 m), while its greatest depth is 153 fathoms 5 feet (923 ft; 281 m). [6] [25] It contains a volume of 1,183 cubic miles (4,932 km 3) of water. Green Bay in the northwest is its largest bay.

  6. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    foot; perch, used variously to measure length or area; acre and acre's breadth; furlong; mile; The best-attested of these is the perch, which varied in length from 10 to 25 feet, with the most common value (16 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 5.03 m) remaining in use until the twentieth century. [1] Later development of the English system continued in 1215 in ...

  7. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The French acre is a square 10 perches (one arpent) on each side. (Does not exactly correspond to the English acre, which is defined as 43 560 square feet.) North America: perche du roi carrée: 324 ~34.19 m 2 ~40.89 sq yd This square perch was used in Quebec and Louisiana. It is a square 18 pieds du roi on each side. vergée (du roi) 8100 ~854 ...

  8. List of United States presidential assassination attempts and ...

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    Shortly after Trump began addressing the rally, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks fired 8 rounds with an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of a building located around 400 feet (120 meters) from the stage. [47] [48] Crooks also killed audience member Corey Comperatore and critically injured two other audience members. [47]