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Re: Air line piping: Part Deux...er...Trois

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Subject: Re: Air line piping: Part Deux...er...Trois
From: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:42:13 -0600
> It's all Thomas Jefferson's fault.  If he could have put his ego in "Park" 
> for five minutes, we'd be all metric.


Read "Civilization One" by Christopher Knight and Allan Butler and then 
let's talk about the foolishness of the US and Imperial measurement systems. 
And Jefferson's involvement.  And the relationship to the metric system too.

Karl 




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