The gallon ( abbreviation " gal "), with the US and imperial gallon, is a measure of volume.

Historically it has had many definitions, but there are three definitions in current use: the imperial gallon (≈ 4. 546 L ) which since metrication is used colloquially in the United Kingdom and semi-officially within Canada, the United States ( liquid ) gallon (≈ 3. 79 L ), and the lesser used US dry gallon (≈ 4. 40 L ).

The gallon, be it the imperial or US gallon, is sometimes found in other English-speaking countries.

A one-US-gallon gas can showing " U. S. gallon " marking ( for US use ), imperial gallons ( for Canadian use ) and litres.

There is one gallon defined in the imperial system but two ( liquid and dry ) in the US customary system.

; The imperial gallon

The imperial ( UK ) gallon, defined as litres, is used in some Commonwealth countries and was originally based on the volume of 10 pounds of water at.

) The imperial fluid ounce is defined as of an imperial gallon.

Both the US liquid and imperial gallon are divided into four quarts ( quarter gallons ), which in turn are divided into two pints.

Thus an imperial fluid ounces is of an imperial pint or of an imperial gallon whilst a US fluid ounces is of a US pint or of a US gallon.

The imperial gallon, quart, pint, cup and gill are approximately 20 % larger than their US counterparts and are therefore not interchangeable.

The sizes of gallon used in these two systems were different from each other: the first was based on the wine gallon ( equal in size to the US gallon ), and the second on either the ale gallon or the smaller imperial gallon.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

One is an imperial London stockbroker called Jerebohm.

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U. S. customary systems.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.

Anthemios presented the Gospel to Emperor Zeno at Constantinople and received from him the privileges of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, that is, the purple cloak which the Greek Archbishop of Cyprus wears at festivals of the church, the imperial sceptre and the red ink with which he affixes his signature.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

He found the military situation so dire that he is said at first to have contemplated withdrawing the imperial capital to Carthage, but relented after the people of Constantinople begged him to stay.

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.

Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

The Han imperial library is said to contain 82 volumes of descriptions of all those systems ( Han Shu 30, 1765-6 ), now mostly lost.

Colonialism is based on an imperial outlook, thereby creating a consequential relationship.

He eventually made his way to northern Italy and made an imperial government, but it is not known whether he visited the city of Rome at this time.

There is a contemporary issue of coins suggestive of an imperial adventus ( arrival ) for the city, but some modern historians state that Diocletian avoided the city, and that he did so on principle, as the city and its Senate were no longer politically relevant to the affairs of the Empire and needed to be taught as much.

The history of the empire before the Tetrarchy is portrayed as a time of civil war, savage despotism, and imperial collapse.

Likewise, Jesus Christ proclaims in the Gospel of Matthew that one should " Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's "; that is at first, literally, the payment of taxes as binding those who use the imperial currency, but more widely interpreted as the offer of obedience and submission to the proclaimed worldly king () in matters not contrary to conscience.

In English, the term mikado ( 御門 or 帝 or みかど ), literally meaning " the honorable gate " ( i. e. the gate of the imperial place, which indicates the person who lives in and possesses the place ), was once used ( as in The Mikado, a 19th century operetta ), but this term is now obsolete.

In the case of the imperial family, it is still considered inappropriate to use the given name.

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

An emperor ( through Old French empereor from Latin imperator ) is a ( male ) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm.

The " Former Standard ," used for about 300 years or more in speech in refined language, was the " Schönbrunner Deutsch ", a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg Family and the nobility of Austria-Hungary.

The term constitution comes through French from the Latin word constitutio, used for regulations and orders, such as the imperial enactments ( constitutiones principis: edicta, mandata, decreta, rescripta ).

* Adoption was possible and a much used way to increase the number of succession-entitled heirs ( however, the adopted child had to be a child of another member agnate of the imperial house ).

* Primogeniture was not used — rather, in the early days, the imperial house practised something resembling a system of rotation.

However, King Gojong used term of " His Majesty the Great Monarch " ( Hangul: 대군주폐하, Hanja: 大君主陛下 ) not officlal imperial title.

These pints are divided into two cups ( though the imperial cup is rarely used now ), which in turn are divided into two gills ( gills are also rarely used ).

The imperial fluid ounce, on the other hand, is only 4 % smaller than the US fluid ounce and therefore they are often used interchangeably.

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

Originally the Babylonian calendar was used by Jews for all daily purposes, but following the conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey in 63 BCE ( see also Iudaea province ), Jews began additionally following the imperial civil calendar, which was decreed in 45 BCE, for civic matters such as the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials.

After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley once used as an imperial garden and hunting preserve, known as Fragrant Hills.

It has been speculated that they originally were Roman bidets or imperial birthing stools, which because of their age and imperial links were used in ceremonies by Popes intent on highlighting their own imperial claims ( as they did also with their Latin title, Pontifex Maximus ).

In the early Middle Ages, the palas was usually that part of an imperial palace ( or Kaiserpfalz ), that housed the Great Hall, where affairs of state were conducted ; it continued to be used as the seat of government in some German cities.

During those same years, the most commonly used standard reference conditions for people using the imperial or U. S. customary systems was and 14. 696 psi ( 1 atm ) because it was almost universally used by the oil and gas industries worldwide.

Eight separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

Although the term " tetrarch " was current in antiquity, it was never used of the imperial college under Diocletian.