[Jukebox-list] Visit from Georgia

[Jackie]

David,
very interesting
Jackie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Jukebox-list] Visit from Georgia


> 
> --- Dave Halford <Dave.Halford at telent.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why do you have a smaller gall anyway?
> 
> The United States uses the Queen Anne wine gallon, defined
> in 1706 as the volume of eight "merchant pounds" of wine.
> In 1824, Britain adopted the larger ale gallon as its
> official unit of volume, which was standardized as the
> volume of ten pounds of distilled water.  Since the US
> and Britain were already spiltsville at that time, the
> US retained the older unit of measure.
> 
> 
> David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
> 
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