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Might I add that:
• 1 link – 7.92 inches (20.1168 cm)
• 1 Celtic common cubit – 18 inches (45.72 cm)
• 1 Celtic Royal cubit – 21 inches (53.34 cm)
• 1 fathom – 5.5 feet (1.65 m)
• 1 reed – 10.5 feet (3.15 m)
• 1 rod, pole or perch – 5.5 yards (5.03 m)
• 1 chain – 4 rods (20.1 m)
• 1 furlong (or furrowlong) – 10 chains (201.125 m)
• 1 mile – 8 furlongs (1609 m)
• 1 league – 3 miles (4828 m)
/Tiny Need for British Measurements
... then there's Megalithic Yards, PHI inches and PHI Feet and all of those exist in a rounded variation, and the sexagesimal rod, the 11 series rod and...
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"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.
I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says,
'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.
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