Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Liberté, Fraternité, Kilomètre? Yes, the metric system was actually developed during the French Revolution - the metric motto was "For all people, for all time" - and Napoleon's conquests helped to spread it through Europe. Unlike early systems based on the human body (the Egyptian cubit was a forearm long, the Roman mile a thousand paces), the metric system took Earth itself as a universal measure. The original meter was one ten-millionth the distance from the North Pole to the Equator; today, it's calculated in relation to the speed of light. Most of the world has long since gone metric, but R the United States just keeps inching along. PING All isolated objects in PA the Object HS Series have CLI S a custom path embed- ded into the high-resolution JPEG-compressed file. PhotoDisc, Inc. P ...
