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    Holiday time!

    At last I've managed to get a fortnight off, see ya in a couple of weeks!

    (I may have some opportunity to peek in the door... )

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    Have a great time.



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    How long is a fortnight?
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    two weeks. (fortnight >> fourteen nights)
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    Thanks, Noo! ( Those crazy foreign types with their metric system and Dr. Who and what all... ) <--- said in an old lady voice while shaking her fist at those whippersnappers.
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    hmmmph, I am a crazy foreign type with Dr Who... fortnight is a very old word!
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    But we have that word in the US as well, it's just not in vogue these days.

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    For an official noprize, if the great race horse Secretariat could run 1.5 miles in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, how many furlongs per fortnight could he run?

    Actual figure for Secretariat, BTW.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb
    how many furlongs per fortnight could he run?
    Ha! A trick question - a horse can't run for a fortnight...

    Drove back from Sydney on Wednesday, then two full-on days back at work. Now with the weekend I can start to get back to the usual routine.

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    Hadrian's Wall, built to guard the Romans northern England border against the marauding Scots, had forts situated at regular intervals along its length. Every two weeks the soldiers got to sleep inside them and this is where the term for two weeks, 'Fortnight' comes from.

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    we always called the forts milecastles . So shoud it be a milecastlenight?
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    Makes sense to me. But then I'm old...

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    Milecastles. Sheesh! Next someone's gonna drag out the old chestnut about the gauge of the original railroads being based on the width of "Roman war chariots".

    Easy math. a furlong = one eighth of a mile. 1.5 miles = 12 furlongs. 2 minutes and 24 seconds = 2.4 minutes. A fortnight = 14 days = 336 hours = 20160 minutes. 20160/2.4 = 8400. 8400 x 12 = 100800, Secretariat's speed measured in furlongs per fortnight. Or 37.5 mph.

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    Can I have that again, but in unix timestamp?
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    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb
    Milecastles. Sheesh! Next someone's gonna drag out the old chestnut about the gauge of the original railroads being based on the width of "Roman war chariots".

    Easy math. a furlong = one eighth of a mile. 1.5 miles = 12 furlongs. 2 minutes and 24 seconds = 2.4 minutes. A fortnight = 14 days = 336 hours = 20160 minutes. 20160/2.4 = 8400. 8400 x 12 = 100800, Secretariat's speed measured in furlongs per fortnight. Or 37.5 mph.
    Naah
    This is another local history issue for me

    When George Stephenson was building the Stockton & Darlington Railway he decided the rail gauge should be just over 4 ft 8 ins (1.44m). The reason for this was that was the width of the wagonway at Killingworth Colliery. However, after Stephenson had made this decision, other railway chief engineers followed his example and used the same rail gauge.
    Except of course IK Brunel who used his Broad Gauge on the Great Western Railway.
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