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A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible [1] [2] and ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance ; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers (20 to 25 miles).
One complete orbit takes 365.256 days (1 sidereal year), during which time Earth has traveled 940 million km (584 million mi). [2] Ignoring the influence of other Solar System bodies, Earth's orbit, also called Earth's revolution, is an ellipse with the Earth–Sun barycenter as one focus with a current eccentricity of 0.0167. Since this value ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
English: Blue (#0072B2) indicates regions that change clocks between daylight saving time in summer and standard time in winter (48 states, the District of Columbia, and the Navajo Nation). Orange (#E69F00) indicates regions that observe permanent standard time (Hawaii, all five inhabited U.S. territories, and all of Arizona outside of the ...
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As one might expect for the equivalent of "mile", li appears in many Chinese sayings, locations, and proverbs as an indicator of great distances or the exotic: One Chinese name for the Great Wall is the "Ten-Thousand-Li Long Wall" (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐchángchéng).
A Dark Traveling is a science fantasy novel by American writer Roger Zelazny. [1] The story uses teleportation as both fantasy and science fiction elements. It is the only novel he wrote for young adults [ 2 ] and one of three books without a heroic protagonist.
Under the previous assumptions, says Cleomedes, one can measure the Sun's angle of elevation at noon of the summer solstice in Alexandria, by using a vertical rod (a gnomon) of known length and measuring the length of its shadow on the ground; it is then possible to calculate the angle of the Sun's rays, which he claims to be about 7.2°, or 1 ...