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Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m 2) in the plane of a vein. [2] In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. [2] In Central Europe, the klafter was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the toise in France.
Naval long guns, or long nines were originally made in only two sizes, eight feet (2.4 m) or nine feet (2.7 m). This was set by the Board of Ordnance in 1703. In the early 1700s, long guns started to dwindle in usage, but came back to prominence in 1761 when the Board of Ordnance changed its primary restriction of the size of long nines.
List of ships built by Aberdeen shipbuilders Hall, Russell & Company, to yard number 200.. The ships built in the sequence to 200 cover the period 1868 to 1876. The initial numbering began at 256, which was the numbering sequence used by Alexander Hall and Sons before switching to their own numbering sequence with the Inverness, the third ship built.
1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]
5 feet (1.5 m) Max. depth: 7 feet (2.1 m) Water volume: 30,677 acre-feet (37,840,000 m 3) [1] Shore length 1: 41.20 miles (66.30 km) Surface elevation: 869 feet (265 m) Islands: 26: Settlements: Beaver Dam, South Beaver Dam, Sunset Beach, Beaver Edge, Fox Lake Junction: 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.
In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. Historically, the "foot" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in ...
7 feet (2.1 m) Surface elevation: 151 ft (46 m) Ponkapag Pond is a 203-acre impoundment in the Blue Hills Reservation. The pond is located on the border of Canton and ...
The billboard extended 247 feet (75 m) along two sides of the RKO General building and wrapped in three tiers above on a 60-foot (18 m) tower. In 1980, the U.S. General Services Administration 's Art in Architecture Program commissioned Katz to create an oil-on-canvas mural in the new United States Attorney's Building at Foley Square , New York ...