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    WHOSE FOOT?

    Apr 01, 2020 2 minutes
    BY EVELYN LAMB

    Maybe you have wondered why 12 inches is called a foot.

    Traditional units of distance such as the Iranian and English league both reflect how far a person could walk in a certain amount of time. Ancient Greeks and Romans measured with the foot ( in Greek and in Latin), which was based on the length of the average

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