Shaku


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Shaku

A unit of length in Japan equivalent to approximately one foot.
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Five accused have been identified as -- Shaku, Nanhey, Zahid, Ausaf and Zuber.
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Energy chief officer Shaku Kulamo on Wednesday said the county has set aside Sh20 million to establish a fire station in six months.
Marsabit to set up fire station
It is about 14 or 15 shaku (one shaku, 0.3030 meters) high.
A Japanese in Manila in 1672
(80) For the first time in America, Asian Buddhist teachers, like Anagarika Dharmapala and Soen Shaku, visited America and spoke to predominantly white audiences of European descent.
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Shaku Teas, and relied on her to provide the sole information regarding Quinns medical records and pathology.
Former assistant public defender testifies in hearing over new trial
Dr Shaku, who was trained at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh University medical schools, said the stroke is a global problem, but, very often, people only diagnose such rhythms when someone has already had a stroke.
Bangladeshi-origin scientist develops device to check stroke
Gisho Shaku Roshi no[phrase omitted] Tokyo: Daito shuppansha.
The "Religion of Images"? Buddhist Image Worship in the Early Medieval Chinese Imagination
The court acquitted three suspects including Muhammad Hayat, Khizar Hayat alias Farooq, and Shafaqat alias Shaku due to lack of evidence.
Prolonged power outages draw citizens' ire
At parties or business dinners members pour sake into each other's cups as a gesture of politeness and bonding called shaku. Sake is also poured in boxlike wooden cups made from hinoki or sugi wood called masu.
Kampai Japan! The Japanese Sake Fair 2017
Shaku Zula also had a good fight with Midaawi before the former earned the third place by half length.
Lukasek, Karraar bag Wathnan Cup
For example, a foot (0.3048 m) nearly equals a chi (0.3333 m) in China and a shaku (0.3030 m) in Japan, while a cubit (coudee, elle, cubitus) in ancient Sumer (0.5172 m) equals that of Egypt (0.5235-0.5240 m), Rome (0.4440 m) and hasta (dhanurgraha hasta (0.4800 m), sishu hasta (0.4260 m)) in India and its neighboring region.
Ancient Chinese capital models --Measurement system in urban planning--
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