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Meile (other)
Meile may refer to: * the German term for mile and as such part of horse races' proper names: **Badener Meile, Group 3 flat horse race in Germany **Frankfurter Meile, Group 3 flat horse race in Germany **Grosse Europa-Meile, Group 2 flat horse race in Germany **Hamburger Meile, Group 3 flat horse race in Germany *Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, contemporary art gallery *Meilė Lukšienė (1913–2009), Lithuanian cultural historian and activist *Meile Rockefeller (born 1955), the daughter of Rodman Rockefeller {{disambiguation de:Meile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mile
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
