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  2. Scottish units - Wikipedia

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    Scottish inch The Scottish inch was 25.44 mm, almost the same as the English (and modern international) inch (25.40 mm). [2] A fraudulent smaller inch of 1 ⁄ 42 ell (22.4 mm) is also recorded.

  3. M4 Sherman - Wikipedia

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    By 23 April 1943, ten M4A2 had covered a total of 16,215 miles (8229 miles on-road and 7,986 miles off-road), operating for 1,825 hours. Fuel consumption of the M4A2 was lower than that of other Shermans: 1.1 mpg (214 liters per 100 km) on the highway, and 0.5 miles per gallon (470 liters per 100 km) on off-road.

  4. Fuel economy in aircraft - Wikipedia

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    Very long non-stop passenger flights suffer from the weight penalty of the extra fuel required, which means limiting the number of available seats to compensate. For such flights, the critical fiscal factor is the quantity of fuel burnt per seat-nautical mile. [12] For these reasons, the world's longest commercial flights were cancelled c. 2013 ...

  5. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The hours of operation signs are tables composed of two columns where the left column is the day of the week in Roman numerals and the right column is a range of hours of operation from starting time to closing time. In the example case (left), the business opens from 10 AM to 7 PM on weekdays, 10 AM to 5 PM on Saturdays and is closed on ...

  6. Wyatt Earp - Wikipedia

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    The Earps rented this cabin in Rampart, Alaska, from Rex Beach and spent the winter of 1898–1899 there Nome, Alaska in 1900 was about two blocks wide and five miles long Nome, Alaska, in 1900: The Dexter Saloon at left was owned by Wyatt Earp and his partner Charles E. Hoxie. It was the city's first two-story wooden building and its largest ...

  7. Second - Wikipedia

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    The second (symbol: s) is a unit of time, historically defined as 1 ⁄ 86400 of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds each (24 × 60 × 60 = 86400).

  8. Airbus A340 - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, as the ultra-long range market is a niche, the A340 was less attractive, with the best usage on long, thin routes from hot-and-high airports or as interim air charter. A 10-year-old A340-300 had a base value of $35m and a market value of $24m, leading to $320,000/mo ($240,000–$350,000) lease rate, while a −500 is $425,000 and a − ...

  9. Electric bicycle laws - Wikipedia

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    In conformance with legislation adopted by the U.S. Congress defining this category of electric-power bicycle (15 U.S.C. 2085(b)), CPSC rules stipulate that low-speed electric bicycles [108] (to include two- and three-wheel vehicles) are exempt from classification as motor vehicles providing they have fully operable pedals, an electric motor of ...