Hi All: My entry into Canada border on July 4 gave me aunique feeling of being welcomed by the 'METRIC CONVERSION' announcement just across announcing the distances here are indicated by the 'Kilometres' and not in Miles. As an educational point road users can mentally register that a "Furlong is 200 m; 1/4 Mile is 400 m; a 1/2 Mile is 800 m; and a ONE Mile is 1and a half Kilometre (although 1.61Km). Distance between the Cricket pitch is 20 metre. The Fedral government and State governments can easily coordinate to change the signboards on the road sides to LEARN this simple change over, as astarting point. Brij Bhushan Vij ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:20822] Re: 2002 July 4 >Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 20:45:47 -0400 > >I think Han is too modest in USMA 20812: > > >I wish all American members of the list a smashing July 4. I will >celebrate > >this day too, for the birth of a new democracy in 1776 and because it is >an > >important date in metric history: in 1799 the Dutch scientist Van Swinden > >launched the metric system in Paris and on the same say in 1837 the >Napoleonic > >dragon was slain and metric took off into the world. > > > >Han > > >I have a reference that says that the Benelux countries went metric in >1816. > >Joseph B.Reid >17 Glebe Road West >Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
