Arroba


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Arroba

A Portuguese measure of weight approximately equivalent to 14.69 kilograms. It became obsolete after Lusophone countries adopted the metric system in the 19th century.
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Arroba Conde hablaba ya en marzo de 2016 del porque se exige el acuerdo sobre el objeto que sustenta la litis que requiere el MIDI".
El Motu Proprio Mitis Iudex dos anos despues. Experiencias de su aplicacion en Espana en materia de la investigacion prejudicial o pastoral previa al proceso de nulidad matrimonial y la practica del proceso brevior
Podriamos decir que la generacion arroba es la que nace despues de 1975 y llega a su plenitud en torno al ano 2000, mientras que la generacion hashtag es la que nace despues de 1985, llegando a su plenitud en torno al ano 2010.
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As to the gross revenue in R$ [@.sup.-1], there was no difference between treatments, as it was used the price of arroba at R$ 126.00, according to Cepea 2014 (Table 8).
Economic viability of production of Nellore heifers on Urochloa brizantha cv. Marandu pastures deferred and fertilized with nitrogen/Viabilidade economica da producao de novilhas Nelore em pastos de Urochloa brizantha cv. Marandu diferidos e adubados com nitrogenio
Previously, in Spain, the Latin "ad" became a unit of weight written as @ and first called "arrub" (from the Arab influence "rub," meaning one-quarter) and later "arroba," while written as @ appeared in a paper dated 1536: " a @ of wine, which is 1/30 of a barrel, is worth 70 ducats," where a "ducat" was a gold or silver coin used as a trade coin in Medieval Europe.
From snail to monkey, the interesting history of @, told in an awkward way
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