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	Imperial unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States and in a few Caribbean countries, the U.S. customary units, which are similar to Imperial units based upon older English units and in part share definitions, are still in common use.
		The Units of Measurement Regulations 1995 require that all measuring devices used in trade or retail be capable of measuring and displaying metric quantities.
		Traditional units persist in ordinary conversation and may be experiencing a resurgence due to the reduction in trade barriers with the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_unit (1375 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Area
		An are (symbol a) is a unit of area, equal to 100 square meters (10 m Ã— 10 m), used for measuring land area.
		A fathom is a unit of length equivalent to 6 feet or 2 yards.
		The area of a parallelogram is b × h, where b is the length of the base of the parallelogram, and h is the corresponding height.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Area (984 words)

	Learn more about Pole in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The poles of the Earth, or other planet, are the points where its axis of rotation passes through its surface.
		In complex analysis, a pole of a function is a certain simple type of singularity.
		A pole is also a unit of length, also called a rod, equal to 5.5 yards or 16.5 feet (5.029 meters in SI units), see pole (length).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/po/pole.html (257 words)

	The Nine Planets Glossary
		The north pole is the one on the same side of the ecliptic as the Earth's north pole.
		a planetary orbit) is 1/2 the length of the major axis which is a segment of a line passing thru the foci of the ellipse with endpoints on the ellipse itself.
		Sidereal rotation is that measured with respect to the stars rather than with respect to the Sun or the primary of a satellite.
	www.nineplanets.org /help.html (4842 words)

	Chapter Two: The Youth's Companion's Pledge
		The idea of the National Liberty Pole and Flag Raising Ceremony at Navesink came from William Osborne McDowell (1845 - 1927), a businessman of Newark, New Jersey and the founder of the Sons of the American Revolution.
		His project was to erect a gigantic flag pole of unusual height on the Navesink Highlands on the New Jersey coast near Sandy Hook Point.
		This is the highest point of land upon the Atlantic Coast in the continental United States and the location of the Navesink Light Station.
	www.history.vineyard.net /pdgech2.htm (6983 words)

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