The humorist Dave Barry has more than once suggested "millipedes" as an imaginary unit of measurement (for example, 120 miles = 2,342,424,323.3432 millipedes), poking fun at the inscrutability of the ...
A Terror Attack in Washington, D.C. Audio By Carbonatix When I was coming of age, soccer was pushed on us, and so was the metric system — and for the same reason ...
Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The issue with these conversions is that they aren’t particularly clean, resulting in some strange ...
PRINCIPAL BARNARD was appointed, in 1871, by the Trustees of the University of the State of New York to attend a meeting of the Convocation of that University, who were adverse to the introduction of ...
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Why Doesn’t the United States Use the Metric System?
Have you ever noticed that systems of measurement tends to change when you leave the United States? Weight is typically measured in kilograms instead of pounds, distance is measured in kilometers over ...
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