The good news is that Imperial forces are losing the battle for planetary dominance. The bad news is that we’re on their team. The British Imperial System of measurement, born in 1824, was an ...

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Now that the United Kingdom is outside the European Union, it’s reviewing thousands of EU rules and regulations to see which it should jettison. Among them is the compulsory use of the metric system ...

The UK government has released a 23-item list of things it will pursue now that it’s no longer part of the European Union. And one item in particular is raising quite a few eyebrows. Prime Minister ...

The British system of measurement, once known as the Imperial System, found inspiration in the most ancient of Indus Valley cultures as well as its homegrown Saxon culture. The earliest form of the ...

To present-day Englishmen, the British Imperial System does not mean the White Man’s Burden but something very nearly as outdated: a labyrinthine heritage of weights and measures that would long since ...