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It is used in some Commonwealth countries, and until 1976 was defined as the volume of water at 62 °F (16.67 °C) [5] [6] whose mass is 10 pounds (4.5359237 kg). There are four imperial quarts in a gallon, two imperial pints in a quart, and there are 20 imperial fluid ounces in an imperial pint, [4] yielding 160 fluid ounces in an imperial gallon.
Neil Sheehan, war correspondent, writing before the mass attacks on heavily populated cities including North Vietnam's capital. On 22 November 1972, a B-52D (55-110) from U-Tapao was hit by a SAM while on a raid over Vinh. The crew was forced to abandon the damaged aircraft over Thailand. This was the first B-52 destroyed by hostile fire. The zenith of B-52 attacks in Vietnam was Operation ...
[1] The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945. [ 3] From the late 1950s, the T-54 eventually became the main tank for armoured units of the Soviet Army, armies of the Warsaw Pact countries, and ...
That year's game was officially named the "St. Petersburg Bowl presented by Beef 'O' Brady's". [14] The game was then renamed as the "Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl" for four years (2010–2013). [ 15 ] In 2014, the game reverted to one of its former names, and in 2017 became the Gasparilla Bowl once again, which was original called the MagicJack Bowl ...
The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an ...
The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) [ 1] is an English and British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois pounds (6.35 kg). [ nb 1] The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom and Ireland for body weight . England and other Germanic -speaking countries of Northern Europe formerly used various standardised "stones ...
Independent Party of Louisiana – 136,125. Conservative Party of Louisiana – 794. Socialist – 85. American Solidarity – 103. Socialism and Liberation – 5. ^ "Other" political affiliations listed as follows: Libertarian Association (unaffiliated) – 16,307. United Independent Party – 14,469. Socialist Party – 1,615.