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Is that somehow related?
What Americans call baloney, is properly spelled Bologna ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage ) and named after the city of Bologna. I came here cautiously hoping to find a good meat-based pun, but disappointment is rather the whole experience.
The Yemeni city of Shibam is filled with mud high rises that have been around since the 1500s [0]. I'd assume medieval Bologna was similar. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibam
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which is also not normalized. A referee once told me that - in theory - football fields can be square. I think it was 80m x 80m since 80m is the minimum length and the maximum width. Correct me if I am wrong.
Field size for American football is definitely standardized: 100 yards between goal lines and 160 feet wide. Lots of Americans will have an intuitive sense for how long something like "three football fields" is.
But seeing ideas and opportunities of 500 years ago, that took dozens of years to take off, might help us better understand the opportunities we have now
Aisha Ray - The Flying Train of Tartaria (electric) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9nhe9mPHKLI
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Why do people attempt to use "stories" as a measurement of height? There is no universal agreement for what a "story" is. 97 meters is in fact 97 meters.
I think the universal agreement is actually to measure things in football fields
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Handegg, because there’s an actual standard size for them. Which is a worse decision for a sport but makes them better for measurement. Soccer’s trying to make their sport worse by standardizing, but they’re not there yet.
It will be more appealing to nerds when they could say "transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom"
That particular illustration is an artistic interpretation of another older illustration. I wish I could place a link for reference right now but I’m using my phone and that’s no fun. There’s a YouTube video somewhere that explains all of this and shows a more accurate physical model (or as accurate as can be reasonably expected) that is located somewhere in Bologna, which suggests that there were quite a few towers…
They looked like this (scroll down) https://www.fontanellestate.com/en/blog/visit-siena-italy-s-...
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Now if we could only agree if we should use soccer or handegg field sizes.
Handegg, because there’s an actual standard size for them. Which is a worse decision for a sport but makes them better for measurement. Soccer’s trying to make their sport worse by standardizing, but they’re not there yet.