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To: yorkie01; All

isn’t it odd that the length of the baby was in inches?

we were in full ‘get ready for the world/wide metrics’ mode back then....


20 posted on 09/10/2009 6:35:08 PM PDT by bitt (“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak.” (Abraham Lincoln))
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To: bitt

Kenya adopted the metric system 1967 to 1969. See this link:

http://histoire.du.metre.free.fr/en/Pages/Sommaire/18.htm


31 posted on 09/10/2009 6:54:49 PM PDT by trueamerica
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To: bitt

No. Not in 1961. Later.


53 posted on 09/10/2009 7:43:59 PM PDT by Jedidah
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