There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.

Buffon, using only 48 small mirrors, was able to melt a 3 kilogram ( six pound ) tin bottle, and ignite wood from a distance of 46 meters ( 150 ft ).

* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.

If, in England, the wine sold for 70 francs ( or the pound equivalent ), which he then used to buy coal, which he imported into France, and was found to be worth 90 francs in France, he would have made a profit of 40 francs.

One candlepower was the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle weighing one sixth of a pound and burning at a rate of 120 grains per hour.

The first to use pound locks was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine ( 1642 ), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi ( 1683 ) connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

The pound troy was divisible into 24 pound carats of 240 grains troy each ; the pound carat was divisible into four pound grains of 60 grains troy each ; and the pound grain was divisible into four pound quarters of 15 grains troy each.

There is literary evidence that the weight of 72 coins of the type called solidus was exactly 1 Roman pound, and that the weight of 1 solidus was 24 siliquae.

Each currency typically has a main currency unit ( the dollar, for example, or the euro ) and a fractional currency, often valued at of the main currency: 100 cents = 1 dollar, 100 centimes = 1 franc, 100 pence = 1 pound, although units of or are also common.

* Grain ( unit ), a unit of mass equal to 64. 79891 milligrams, of an avoirdupois pound

: If a person weighs 120 pounds, then " 120 " is the numerical value and " pound " is the unit.

The pound or pound-mass ( abbreviations: lb, lb < sub > m </ sub >, lbm, ℔) is a unit of mass

As cost of natural rubber has risen significantly, the shipping methods which offer the lowest cost per unit ( kg, tonne or pound ) are preferred.

( 240 actual pennies, however, weighed only 5400 troy grains, known as tower pound, a unit used only by mints.

Another inventor, William Edenborn, a German immigrant who later settled in Winn Parish, Louisiana, patented a machine which simplified the making of barbed wire and cut the unit price of production from seventeen to three cents per pound.

In the foot-pound-second system of measurement, which is non-coherent, the unit of power is the " horsepower " which is defined as " 550 foot-pounds per second ", the pound in this context being the pound-force.

The new currency went public on 28 January 1968, and the Nigerian pound was not accepted as an exchange unit.

The thickness ( concentration ) of shellac is measured by the unit " pound cut ", referring to the amount ( in pounds ) of shellac flakes dissolved in a gallon of denatured alcohol.

Thus on 16 January 1968, the Zambian pound was replaced by the kwacha with the new official rate equal to one half the old unit, or US $ 1.

Historically, the pound name derives from a series of abbreviations for pound, the unit of weight.

The thai baht, like the pound, originated from a traditional unit of mass.

The pound is a unit of currency in some nations.

The word pound is the English translation of the Latin word libra, which was the unit of account of the Roman Empire.

The pound or pound force ( symbol: lb, lb < sub > f </ sub >, lbf ) is a unit of force in some systems of measurement including English engineering units and British gravitational units.

In some contexts, the term " pound " is used almost exclusively to refer to the unit of force and not the unit of mass.

In other contexts, the unit " pound " refers to a unit of mass.

Ounce derives from Latin uncia, a unit that was one twelfth ( 1 / 12 ) of the Roman pound ( libra ).

With one basic 24 pound unit a scaffold of various sizes and heights could be assembled easily by a couple of labourers without the nuts or bolts previously needed.

The exchange rate between the United States dollar and British pound is still colloquially known as " cable " by financial marketeers on account of the fact the rate of exchange was one of the early uses of the transatlantic cable.

The British pound became Ceylon's official money of account in 1825, replacing the Ceylonese rixdollar at a rate of 1 pound = 13⅓ rixdollars, and British silver coin was made legal tender.

In the years following the 1838 order-in-council, the British West Indies territories began to enact local legislation for the purposes of assimilating their monies of account with the British pound sterling.

King Offa of Mercia is credited with causing the widespread adoption of the silver penny and the pound as a unit of account.

Later, " an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received " suggests that Ichabod had been frightened, both of the Horseman and of the anger of his ( Ichabod's ) current landlord, into leaving the town forever, later to become " a justice of the ten pound court " in " a distant part of the country.

In 1707, the pound Scots was replaced by the pound sterling at a rate of 12 to 1, although the pound Scots continued to be used in Scotland as a unit of account for most of the 18th century.

This was a work of great importance, and gave a detailed account of the British monetary system as well as a detailed examination of the ways in which the Bank of England should act to counteract fluctuations in the value of the pound.

* The United Kingdom and many countries formerly part of the British Empire — 1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence = 960 farthings ; these were units of account, although many other coins had informal or formal names ( see coins of the pound sterling ).

In mediaeval England the unit of account was the mark, equivalent to two-thirds of a pound or 160 pence, or 13 shillings and four pence.

Jamaica followed the pattern of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand in that when it adopted the decimal system, it decided to use the half-pound unit as opposed to the pound unit of account.

Fiji followed the pattern of South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand in that when it adopted the decimal system, it decided to use the half pound unit as opposed to the pound unit of account.

Australia followed the pattern of South Africa in that when it adopted the decimal system, it decided to use the half pound unit as opposed to the pound unit of account.

However, in British East Africa, even though twenty shillings were equal in value to one pound sterling, the shilling was always taken to be the primary unit of account.

The extraordinary confidence in the pound sterling, a money of account like many others, never varied during the shocks of war, though the financial crisis of 1797 could have undermined it.