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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Metric System is in General Things.
Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System
Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System, Distances Greater Than a Metre
Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System, Distances Greater Than a Metre, Gigametre
Gigametre. One thousand million metres. Abbreviation Gm.
Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System, Distances Greater Than a Metre, Kilometre
Kilometre. One thousand metres. Abbreviation Km.
Mercury ...
is, on average, 0.39 AUs from the Sun.
has a diameter of 2440 Kms; around one third of the Earth.
has an eccentic orbit with the closest distance to the Sun being 47 million kilometers, and the farthest distance being 70 million kilometers.
has a year of 88 days.
spins on its axis every 59 days.
is tilted at 2 degrees.
formed around 4.5 Billion years ago.
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Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System, Distances Greater Than a Metre, Megametre
Megametre. One million metres. Abbreviation Mm.
Culture, General Things, Distance Metric System, Metre
Metre. The standard unit of distance in the Metric System.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Gram
Gram. The standard unit of distance in the Metric System. Abbreviated as g.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Exagram
Exagram. One million million million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Gigagram
Gigagram. One thousand million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Kilogram
Kilogram. One thousand grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Megagram
Megagram. One million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Petagram
Petagram. One thousand million million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Teragram
Teragram. One million million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Yottagram
Yottagram. One million million million million grams.
Culture, General Things, Mass Metric System, Masses Greater Than a Gram, Zettagram
Zettagram. One thousand million million million grams. It is abbreviated as Zgs, or, possibly g21.
Culture, General Things, Metric System, Non-Metric Units
Culture, General Things, Metric System, Non-Metric Units, Non-Metric Distances
Culture, General Things, Metric System, Non-Metric Units, Non-Metric Distances, Astronomical Unit Length
Culture, General Things, Metric System, Non-Metric Units, Non-Metric Distances, Light Year
All About History Books
The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Light Year. The distance travelled by light in one year. 9.46×1012 km.
The Milky Way Galaxy is one of many galaxies that form the Universe, each of which, on average, contains one hundred million stars. NASA has estimated there are 200 billion galaxies with the total number of stars being between 1019 and 1024 stars.
The Milky Way contains between 100 and 400 billion stars, and around the same number of planets. The Solar System is located 27,000 light-years from the centre of the Milky Way ie 255,420,000,000,000,000 Km.