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9 unusual facts about Meter


Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts

The winner of each show was determined by a meter that judged the audience's applause.

Cults of Unreason

The book also describes the E-meter, various front groups, operating thetan, and the lifestyles of members whilst living at Scientology's then headquarters at Saint Hill Manor.

E-meter

The E-meter has undergone many changes since it was invented by Volney Mathison, an early collaborator with Hubbard.

On January 4, 1963, more than one hundred E-meters were seized by US marshals at the "Founding Church of Scientology" building, now known as the L. Ron Hubbard House, located in Washington, D.C. The sect was accused of making false claims that the devices effectively treated some 70 percent of all physical and mental illness.

MBus

M-Bus, or Meter-Bus, a bus used for remote reading of gas or electricity meters

Open Metering System

Concerning the created Open Metering System Specification (OMS specification or OMSS) a subset out of the existing Meter-Bus standard series (EN 13757) was selected, definitions were made where selections or ambiguities were possible, to streamline the interpretation by different producers.

The Open Metering System OMS stands for a manufacturer and utilities independent standardization for Meter-Bus based communication between utility meters (electricity, gas, water, district heat, heat cost allocators) and systems in the field of Smart meter.

On the side of meter manufacturers there were mainly the members of the technical associations in Germany FIGAWA (German Association for Gas and Water) and ZVEI (German Electrical and Electronics Industry Association), but also several other internationally operating companies joined to create a bundle of common definitions and specifications based on the European Meter-Bus standard (EN 13757) as well as the Dutch NTA 8130.

Volney Mathison

Volney G. Mathison, also known by the pseudonym Dex Volney (August 13, 1897 – January 3, 1965), was an American chiropractor, writer, and inventor of the E-meter.


1936 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships

For the second consecutive year, Ohio State's Jesse Owens won championships in four individual events—the 100-meter sprint, the 200-meter sprint, the 110-meter high hurdles and the broad jump (now called the long jump).

2-meter band

Much of 2-meter FM operation uses a radio repeater, a radio receiver and transmitter that instantly retransmits a received signal on a separate frequency.

2013 Maccabiah Games

American Olympic medalist swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale won the gold medal in the men’s 100 free with a time of 48.99, and won the gold medal in the men's 50 meter sprint with a new Maccabiah record time of 22.68 seconds.

Andrew Gemmell

At the 2008 FINA Youth World Swimming Championships, Gemmell won gold in the boy's 400-meter individual medley.

Arkansas fatmucket

It often lives next to river islands with stands of water willow (Justicia americana) in water about a meter deep.

Basarabeasca

Naum Prokupets, sprint canoer, Olympic bronze in C-2 1,000-meter event, gold in C-2 10,000-meter event at ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships

Brooks Johnson

His first was 1960 110-meter hurdles silver medalist Willie May.

Calvin Davis

Davis competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas, primarily as a flat 400 meter sprinter, not learning the hurdles until later.

Chelsea Hammond

Because of a major circumstance, she was consequently joined with Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, who finished behind her in the overall rankings by just a single meter difference.

Christ of Vũng Tàu

Cristo Rey del Cubilete in Guanajuato, Mexico: a 23 meter high statue inspired by Christ the Redeemer

Cidade Limpa

Many of the graffiti images which had brought the city an international reputation for artistic innovation were destroyed and others badly damaged, including the officially approved 680 meter-long mural painted by the grafiteiros Os Gêmeos, Nunca and Nina along the 23 de Maio expressway.

Emily Silver

Silver is the niece of Larry Barbiere, a finalist in the men's 100-meter backstroke at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Fernando Cañales

Fernando became a National Champion while representing Club Wolverine in 1986, when he won the 4 x 100 meter free relay alongside three other Wolverines, Joe Parker, Greg Varner and Dave Kerska.

Frisian Islands

At the Frisian Peins (in the municipality Franeker), a 40-meter section of dike has been discovered that is thought to date from the 1st or 2nd century BCE.

Gregory Jagenburg

At the 1975 World Aquatics Championships in Cali, Colombia he won gold medals in the 100 meter butterfly and the 4×100 meter medley relay, as well achieving a 4th place in the 200 meter butterfly.

Gutterson Fieldhouse

He set an Olympic record with a 7.60 meter long jump, beating, among others, the great Jim Thorpe.

Hap Moran

As a passer his favorite receiver was Morgan Taylor, who won the first Gold Medal for the United States in the 1924 Olympics in Paris running the 400-meter hurdles.

Henri Tresca

When the Mendenhall Order in 1893 declared the meter to be the fundamental length standard, No. 27 became the US primary national standard for all length measurements.

Hudson Boatworks

Hudson formerly held the world best time for the men's heavyweight eight for a two thousand meter race which was 5:19.85, designed by Luis Tarrataca, set by the U.S in the 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece.

Julius Erasmus Hilgard

This, together with miscellaneous field and scientific work, including a series of very elaborate experiments on the comparison of the standard bar of the base apparatus with the standard meter, occupied his time very closely up to the middle of the year 1860, when the necessary attention to his material interests led him to dissolve his official connection with the Coast Survey for a time, in order to engage in a prominent business enterprise at Paterson, New Jersey.

Lee Vernon McNeill

McNeill made a name for himself in 1985 when he defeated Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis in the semifinals of the 100-meter dash at the USA outdoor track and field championships.

Loop Current

NOAA's National Data Buoy Center maintains a large number of data buoys in the Gulf of Mexico, some of which measure sea temperature one meter below the surface.

Lorenz Saladin

The following year he intended joining five Russian friends, Georgi Charlampiew, Michail Dadiomow, Leonid Gutman, the sculptor Yevgeniy Abalakov and his brother Vitaly on a geological expedition to climb the 7546-meter high Mustagh Ata in China.

Mae Chaem District

Thailand's highest mountain, 2.565 meter (8,415 ft) high Doi Inthanon, in the Thanon Thong Chai Range, is located in Mae Chaem district.

Massimiliano Gioni

In 2002, at 29, he opened a one-meter-square space, The Wrong Gallery, in Chelsea with Ali Subotnick (then of Parkett) and Maurizio Cattelan; when they lost the lease, they reopened in the Tate Modern.

Mec 16 SB

It is the first camera with built-in exposure meter, capable of measuring the light through the lens, the so called Through-the-lens metering (TTL).

Mercedes-Benz W201

The 190E (E for Einspritzung, or Fuel Injection) model uses the Bosch Jetronic Multi-Point Fuel Injection to meter fuel instead of the carburetor of 190 models.

Murray Halberg

Halberg House of Hutt International Boys' School is named after Sir Murray Halberg, and students in the house earn what are called "meter points" which relates to Sir Murray Halberg and his running career.

Nørre Alslev

The 3,199 meter long Storstrøm Bridge connects the former municipality from near the town of Orehoved to Masnedø, an island in Storstrømmen, and the 201 meter long Masnedsund Bridge (Masnedsundbroen) continues from there to the town of Vordingborg.

Ollndorf

The area falls from about 30 to 15 m over NHN until 500 meter east of the settlements up to the river Maurine (stream).

Owens Valley Radio Observatory

In Contact (1997), Eleanor Arroway (Jodie Foster) did her thesis work on the Owens Valley 40 meter telescope.

Panthera leo fossilis

With a maximum head and body length of 2.40 meters, which is about half a meter longer than today's African lions, Panthera leo fossilis was almost as big as the American lion from the Upper Pleistocene.

PCSat2

It also carried a PSK31 Linear/FM Satellite translator accepting 3 kHz SSB channel in the 10 meter band at 29.4 MHz and repeating that in baseband on a VHF or UHF narrow-band FM downlink.

Pekka Vasala

With a medal in every track event from 1500 to 10,000 meters, three gold and one bronze (Tapio Kantanen in the 3000 meter steeplechase) Finnish athletes achieved a level of success not seen since the era of the "Flying Finns" (1912-1936).

Robert Dennis

His personal best time in the 100 meter are 10.28 seconds, achieved in May 1997 in Villanova, Pennsylvania, and in the 200 meter with a best time of 20.58 seconds in June 1998 in Fairfax, Virginia.

Dennis was once the Liberian National Record holder in the 200 meter (20.58)Fairfax, Virginia in 1998.

Rollei 35

Waaske's little camera was presented at Photokina in 1966 as Rollei 35, with a better lens – the Zeiss Tessar 3.5/40mm lens, a state-of-the-art Gossen CdS-exposure meter and a precision-made diaphragm shutter made by Compur, using Waaske's patented shutter design.

Saint-Mesmin, Dordogne

The Auvézère has eroded a more than 100 meter deep gorge in limestone rock.

Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi

He visited Iran in 1834 and settled down in Khomeyn where in 1839 he purchased the large house and garden spanning 4,000-square-meter and costing very large sum of 100 tomans.

SM Mall of Asia

Dell International Services, a subsidiary of Dell, Inc. once occupied a 13,470.5-square meter area at the second floor of the north parking building of the mall.

Susan Shields

She represented the United States as a 16-year-old at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where she received a bronze medal for her third-place performance in the 100-meter butterfly, finishing behind Australian Lyn McClements and fellow American Ellie Daniel.

Terasen Measurement

Terasen Measurement has a full accreditation as a Meter Service Organization under both Measurement Canada and ISO 9001:2000.

The Sheer

Their debut on national television took place on TMF and "The Sheer" had been invited to "2 Meter Sessies" on Kink FM.

Virginia Miller

Competing for the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks in 2000 and 2001, Miller set school records in the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meters, 800-meters, long jump and heptathlon.

Wilhelm Rasmussen

His most extensive work was the 34-meter high column originally titled Eidsvollsøylen, which in 1925 had won the competition sponsored by the Parliament of Norway for a monument on Eidsvolls plass in front of the Parliament building in memory of the Norwegian Constitution.


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