Silver rupee coins, issued by the British East India Company, were a practical standard for the tola.

It was also used in Aden and Zanzibar: in the latter, one tola was equivalent to 11. 398 grams ( 0. 9772 British tolas, 175. 90 troy grains ).

The very first rupee (; rupayā ), minted by Sher Shah Suri ( 1540 – 45 ), had a mass of 178 troy grains, or about 1 % less than the British tola.

The British East India Company issued a silver rupee coin of 180 troy grains, and this became the practical standard mass for the tola well into the 20th century.

The tola formed the base for units of mass under the British Indian system, and was also the standard measure of gold and silver bullion.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

1, 932 rounds were fired at the British Army, who also faced 211 explosions and 180 nail bombs and who fired 364 rounds in return.

* January 6 – Treaty of Mandeswar brings an end to the Third Anglo-Maratha War, ending the dominance of Marathas, and enhancing the power of the British East India Company, which controls territory occupied by 180 million Indians.

Sting was estimated to have a fortune of £ 180 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, making him one of the 10 richest people in the British music industry.

The British government eventually acknowledged their effort with a payment of £ 180, 000 after the war, which the province used to retire its devalued paper currency.

From the 1930s, following the work of Val Page, most British four-stroke parallel-twin motorcycles used a crank angle of 360 °, which allowed the use of a single carburettor because 180 ° and 270 ° twins need twin carburettors, as did an early Meguro was a copy of the 360 ° British BSA A7.

For example, the 1966 Honda 450 cc dohc 180 ° parallel-twin “ Black Bomber " could challenge contemporary British 650 cc 360 ° twins.

The number of heavy cruisers was limited-the US was permitted 18 with a total tonnage of 180, 000, the British 15 totalling 147, 000 and the Japanese 12 totalling 108, 000 tons.

When the British government was convinced to refund the province's expense for mounting the 1745 Louisbourg expedition, Hutchinson seized upon the idea of using the massive payment ( about £ 180, 000 in gold and silver ) to retire the province's paper currency.

They split off from the main movement and formed the National Volunteers, and were among the 180, 000 Irishmen who served in Irish regiments of the Irish 10th and 16th Divisions of the New British Army formed for the War.

The British introduced the pound sterling unit to Cyprus in 1879 at a rate of one to 180 Turkish piastres.

* British Rail Class 180 " Coradia " diesel multiple unit

Many settlers were weakened on their short sea voyage and many of them later died in hospitals in British Honduras ; 180 of the 270 would-be settlers had perished during the ordeal.

To enter as an officer cadet, British entrants must have 180 or more Universities and Colleges Admissions Service UCAS points.

The provinces with the largest Ukrainian populations ( single and multiple origins, 2006 ) are: Ontario, 336, 355 ; Alberta, 332, 180 ; British Columbia 197, 265 ; Manitoba, 167, 175 ; Saskatchewan 129, 265 ; and Quebec, 31, 955.

The Class 180 is a British diesel multiple-unit train built by Alstom at Washwood Heath in Birmingham between 2000 and 2001 for then-new express services operated by First Great Western ( FGW ).

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In March 1979, as part of the Muldergate Scandal, the British newspaper The Guardian wrote that Lange and ALP had received 180, 000 NOK from a secret South African fund.

In reality, the circulation peaked at 180, 000, over half of which was British.

* British Rail Class 180, a type of train

The Berliner Zeitung was then sold in the fall of 2005 for an estimated 150 – 180 million euros to the British company Mecom Group and the American company Veronis Suhler Stevenson.

Johnson's column eventually consisted of 180 civilian colonists, 62 wagons and 200 volunteers ( who ultimately formed the nucleus of what became the British South Africa Police ).

Being a versatile denominator in fractions may explain why we have 12 inches in an imperial foot, 12 ounces in a troy pound, 12 old British pence in a shilling, 24 ( 12 × 2 ) hours in a day, and many other items counted by the dozen, gross ( 144, square of 12 ) or great gross ( 1728, cube of 12 ).

The troy ounce in use today is essentially the same as the British Imperial troy ounce ( 1824-1971 ), adopted as an official weight standard for coinage by Act of Congress on May 19, 1828.

The British Imperial troy ounce ( known more commonly simply as the imperial troy ounce ) was based on, and virtually identical with, the pre-1824 English troy ounce and the pre-1707 English troy ounce.

The only system of troy weights in widespread use today is the British Imperial, more commonly known as Imperial, and its American counterpart.

Both the British Imperial and American troy weights are currently based on a grain of 0. 06479891 gram ( exact, by definition ), with 480 grains to a troy ounce ( compared with 437½ grains for an ounce avoirdupois ).

However, the British Empire abolished the 12-ounce troy pound in the 19th century, while it has been retained ( although rarely used ) in the American system.

The British Imperial system of weights and measures ( also known as Imperial units ) was established in 1824, prior to which the troy weight system was a subset of pre-Imperial English units.

( The Bremen troy ounce had a mass of 480. 8 British Imperial grains.

Because there were 12 troy ounces in the old troy pound, there would have been 240 pennyweights to the pound — the basis of the fact that the old British pound ( currency ) contained 240 pence.

In both British Imperial and U. S. customary units, there are precisely 7, 000 grains per avoirdupois pound, and 5, 760 grains per troy pound or apothecaries pound.

At the time of the 1702 London Mint Assay by Sir Isaac Newton, the silver content of British coinage was defined to be one troy ounce of sterling silver for 62 pence.

A short shaft was sunk in 1935-1936 at Burwash, and in the summer of 1935 a 16-ton bulk sample of ore was shipped to Trail, British Columbia for processing, yielding 200 troy ounces ( 6 kg ) of gold.

An alternate suggestion is that the weights come from the Moslem domains by way of the Gold Dirhem ( 47. 966 British Imperial grains ), in the manner that King Offa's weights were derived from the silver Dirhem ( about 45. 0 British grains ).

This money format was borrowed in other countries and the word florin was used, for example, in relation to the Dutch guilder ( abbreviated to Fl ) as well as the coin first issued in 1344 by Edward III of England, then valued at six shillings, composed of 108 grains ( 6. 99828 grams ) of gold with a purity of 23 carats and 3 grains ( or 23 carats )., and more recently relating to a British pre-decimal silver coin ( later nickel silver ) piece also known as a two shilling ' bit ' ( abbreviation 2 /-) worth 24 pence or one-tenth of a pound.

Londrina was named after the British entrepreneurs who launched railroad stations in the region to ease the transportation of coffee grains from northern Paraná and southern São Paulo states to the port of Santos.

The British military adopted a loading of this cartridge as the Cartridge, S. A., Revolver Ball, 380 in, MkI. 38-200, with the " 200 " referring to the weight of the bullet in grains.

* Pottage a staple stew made from boiling vegetables, grains and whatever was available, since Neolithic times in the British isles