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To: blam
The gate was a monumental structure, the largest of its kind found in the area between Damascus and Egypt. It covered an area of about half a dunam, ...

What is half a dunam?
Or a whole dunam, for that matter?

6 posted on 10/26/2003 5:51:02 PM PST by curmudgeonII
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To: curmudgeonII
one dunam = about one fourth of an acre.
7 posted on 10/26/2003 5:59:24 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (CCCP = clinton, chiraq, chretien, and putin = stalin wannabes)
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To: curmudgeonII
"What is half a dunam? Or a whole dunam, for that matter?"

Don't know, this is all that I could find.

"... One square kilometer (10,000 dunam) of farmland in these areas produces income of about USD 900,000"

8 posted on 10/26/2003 6:03:07 PM PST by blam
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To: curmudgeonII
Another term I've never heard before:

Architectonics

Definition: [n] the science of architecture

See Also: architecture, science, scientific discipline

15 posted on 10/26/2003 7:36:16 PM PST by DManA
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