A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U. S. customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to 220 yards, 660 feet, 40 rods, or 10 chains.

This gallon is one-eighth of a US Winchester bushel of 2150. 42 cubic inches, thus it is equal to exactly 268. 8025 cubic inches or.

He is one-eighth Native American ( Choctaw ).

At, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area.

The Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers America's public lands, totaling approximately, or one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

In fact, around one-eighth of California's population is from Okie heritage.

Today, about one-eighth of Perris is Asian American and is expected in further continual growth.

It is likely that Tantivy was relocated by about one-eighth of a mile ( from east to west ) at least once during its existence.

The average elevation is above sea level and the Mississippi River is approximately one-eighth of a mile wide throughout Champlin.

About one-eighth of the land area is served by the Copiague Union Free School District ; however, this area only has 3 residential blocks.

He is thus one-eighth Japanese ( Yonsei ).

Each of these pints are defined as one-eighth of the respective gallons but because of differing gallon definitions, the imperial pint is approximately 20 % larger than the US liquid pint.

For chroma the resolution is typically halved both vertically and horizontally ( see 4: 2: 0 ) therefore the motion compensation of chroma uses one-eighth chroma pixel grid units.

The term octoroon referred to a person with one-eighth African ancestry ; that is, someone with family heritage of one biracial grandparent, in other words, one African great-grandparent and seven Caucasian great-grandparents.

* from below the chin to the top of the head is one-eighth of the height of a man

* the distance from the elbow to the armpit is one-eighth of the height of a man.

When the Purkinje effect is also considered the effect is magnified, to where yellow sources can produce as little as one-eighth the skyglow of an equivalent output white light source, particularly when the observer is located at some distance from the light pollution source, the sky is darker, and the eye more completely dark adapted

This ringed glass walkway is about wide and has a circumference of approximately or about one-eighth of a mile around.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

* 1093 – The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin.

As holder of one of the " five great sees " ( the others being York, London, Durham and Winchester ), the Archbishop of Canterbury is ex officio one of the Lords Spiritual of the House of Lords.

NATO adopted the 7. 62x51 NATO round ( which in reality is only slightly different ballistically to the. 308 Winchester and. 303 British cartridges ), along with several rifles such as the FN FAL and M14.

These generic forms are explored on the University of Winchester Journalism Department ' features web ' where ' long form journalism ' is classified by genre or content, rather than in terms of production as film, radio or ' print '.

Déjà Vu is also a plot element in the episode " Mystery Spot " of the television series Supernatural where Sam Winchester wakes up in the same day as a result of being trapped in a time loop.

" The FBI is in process of moving its Records Management Division, which processes Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) requests, to Winchester, Virginia.

Camulodunum was burned to the ground, as well as Londinium and Verulamium, there is some archaeological evidence that the same happened at Winchester as well, and the Second Legion Augusta, stationed at Exeter, refused to move for fear of revolt among the locals there as well.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester – a Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

* St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire near Winchester, old " Miz-Maze " or " Mizmaze " ( unusual square design ; path is a narrow groove )

The Statute of Winchester of 1285 is also cited as the primary legislation regulating the policing of the country between the Norman Conquest and the Metropolitan Police Act 1829.

The rifle Ruger brought out, named simply "# 1 ", ( Ruger No. 1 ) uses a falling block action, and is available in a wide selection of calibers from. 22 Hornet to. 458 Winchester Magnum.

Most of what is known about Malory stems from the accounts describing him in the prayers found in the Winchester Manuscript, distinguishing him from the other six individuals also bearing the name Thomas Malory in the 15th century when Le Morte d ' Arthur was written.

It is likely that both Winchester and Silchester would have fallen to the West Saxons between the years 508 and 514, but this transition is only suggested by the absence of these important towns in the later annals of the British scribes.

This is due to the fact that Waterlooville, which is part of Havant Borough Council, is bordered by Winchester City Council and so has hindered any plans in the past.

This campaign, which included the burning and destruction of part of the countryside that the royal forces marched through, is usually known as the " Harrying of the North "; it was over by April 1070, when William wore his crown ceremonially for Easter at Winchester.

* June 14 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.

:"… there is no part of the millet that does not make a sound: for there is no reason why any such part should not in any length of time fail to move the air that the whole bushel moves in falling.

A full bushel is lower right represented by a basket.

A bushel is an imperial and U. S. customary unit of dry volume, equivalent in each of these systems to 4 pecks or 8 gallons.

Government policy in the United States is to phase out units such as the bushel and replace them with metric mass equivalents.

Eventually, participants carry the straw to a nearby shrine, at which the bushel is cut open with a ceremonial sword.

Within the church is a brass standard bushel measure given in 1792.

Jesus also used that term Light of the World to refer to his disciples in Matthew 5: 14: The term " Light of the World " is related to the parables of Salt and Light and Lamp under a bushel.

The original boisseau, like the English bushel, varied depending on the commodity for which it was used and the region where is was used.

Clam digging on the New England coast is done using a " clam hoe " ( a pitchfork with the handle cut off about from the tines then bent about 70 degrees ) and a " roller " ( a half bushel basket built using wood lathes or wire mesh ) and hip waders ( boot that extend up to the top of the legs ).

The KJV translation of bushel is more literal.

In James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, a character is described as " shining quietly under a bushel of Wicklow bran ".

* At the beginning of Chapter Thirteen there is a mention of "... the heroine of a book much more suitable to read than this one spends an entire afternoon eating the first bite of a bushel of apples.

The price of grinding wheat into flour is fifteen pence per bushel, if brought and taken away by the owners of the wheat, or eighteen pence per bushel if brought and taken away by the owners of the Mill.